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Mumbai has won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy title for the second time in 3 years. On Sunday, the team defeated Madhya Pradesh by 5 wickets in the final in Bengaluru. Batting first, MP scored 174 runs at Chinnaswamy Stadium. Mumbai achieved the target by losing 5 wickets in 17.5 overs.
Suryakumar Yadav from Mumbai scored 48 runs. Suryansh Shedge played an unbeaten inning of 36 runs on 15 balls and Atharva Ankolekar scored 16 runs on 6 balls. Captain Rajat Patidar from MP scored 81 runs on 40 balls. Earlier also Mumbai had become champion in 2022.
bad start for mp After losing the toss and coming to bat first, MP had a bad start. The team lost 2 wickets in the first 2 overs. Arpit Gaur was out after scoring only 3 runs and wicketkeeper Harsh Gawli was out after scoring only 2 runs. Harpreet Singh Bhatia batted slowly first in the powerplay and then also after the powerplay. He was out after playing an innings of 15 runs on 23 balls.
Rajat Patidar left alone Subhranshu Senapati scored 23 runs in 17 balls, but he was sent to the pavilion by Shivam Dubey. After him, Rajat Patidar remained at one end and wickets kept falling at the other end. Venkatesh Iyer scored 17 runs on 9 balls and Rahul Batham scored 19 runs on 14 balls. Shivam Shukla and Kumar Karthikeya could score 1 run each, Tripuresh Singh could not even open the account.
Patidar scored 81 runs on 40 balls, his innings included 6 fours and 6 sixes. He scored runs at a strike rate of 202.50. Patidar made a partnership of 34 runs with Venkatesh and 56 runs with Batham. He is also the second top run scorer of the tournament.
Shardul took 2 wickets Shardul Thakur and Royston Das took 2-2 wickets from Mumbai. Spinner Atharva Ankolekar took 1 wicket. Medium pacers Shivam Dubey and Suryansh Shedge also got 1 wicket each. A batter runout also occurred.
Good start for Mumbai Mumbai got a good start against the target of 175 runs. Prithvi Shaw was out after scoring 10 runs, but the team took the score to 48 runs by the 5th over. Captain Shreyas Iyer scored 16 runs. Opener Ajinkya Rahane again maintained the scoring rate along with Suryakumar Yadav.
Rahane and Surya made a fifty partnership and took the score close to 100 runs. Rahane was out after scoring 37 runs, after him Shivam Dubey could also score only 9 runs. Surya was also out again after scoring 48 runs.
Ajinkya Rahane and Suryakumar Yadav made a partnership of 52 runs.
Shedge made a one-sided run chase Mumbai lost 5 wickets at the score of 129 runs, the team needed 46 runs from 32 balls. Here Suryansh Shedge came out to bat, he scored 36 runs in just 15 balls by hitting 3 sixes and 3 fours. With his support, Atharva Ankolekar scored 16 runs in 6 balls and made the team win by hitting the winning six in the 18th over.
Fast bowler Tripuresh Singh took 2 wickets for MP. Shivam Shukla, Venkatesh Iyer and Kumar Karthikeya got 1 success each. Avesh Khan and Rahul Botham could not take any wicket.
Rahane was the player of the tournament Shedge from Mumbai scored 36 runs and also took 1 wicket, hence he got the Player of the Match award. Ajinkya Rahane was the Player of the Tournament, scoring 469 runs in 9 matches at a strike rate of 164.56. MP captain Rajat Patidar was the second top scorer with 428 runs.
Mumbai also won the title in 2022 The teams of Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh faced each other for the first time in the final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Earlier, both had played 1-1 finals against different teams. Mumbai had defeated Himachal Pradesh by 3 wickets in 2022. Whereas MP had to face defeat by 1 run against Bengal in 2011. Mumbai won the title for the second time, while MP once again remained empty handed.
Mumbai won the SMAT title in 2022 under the captaincy of Ajinkya Rahane and in 2024 under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer.
Mumbai defeated Baroda, MP Delhi in the semi-finals Madhya Pradesh had topped Group-A and Mumbai had made it to the quarter-finals on top of Group-E. Both had to face 1-1 defeat. In the quarter finals, Mumbai defeated Vidarbha by 6 wickets and MP defeated Saurashtra by 6 wickets. In the semi-finals, Mumbai defeated Baroda by 6 wickets and MP defeated Delhi by 7 wickets.
Rajat Patidar was the second top run scorer of SMAT 2024.