Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2019-20: Round 6 - Review

On a day where some stunning incidents took place in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, the best one of the lot was Meghalaya giving a knockout punch to Mumbai in their Group D game. In another part of the country, Tripura almost registered the lowest ever team score in T20 history, but some good lower-order performances denied that.

Against Tamil Nadu, Tripura lost track completely as they lost 7 wickets in the first 6 overs, scoring just 9 runs. Sai Kishore and T Natarajan picked up all of these wickets. Saurabh Das and Neelambuj Vats’ partnership of 70 runs for the 9th wicket saw them end with a respectable 79/8 in 20 overs. Tamil Nadu chased the total down in 12.1 overs with 8 wickets to spare.

Perhaps the result of the tournament, Meghalaya, who thus far had a horrendous campaign, stunned the mighty-Mumbai side. Their bowlers did a great job to restrict Mumbai in the first innings to just 157 runs, a score which was relatively less on this track. Dwaraka Ravi Teja and Sanjay Yadav scored the fifties as Meghalaya won the game by 6 wickets and 4 balls remaining.

Baroda are on quite a run this tournament, who currently top Group A with 20 points to their credit. Deepak Hooda and Kedar Devdhar’s exploits with the willow helped Baroda score 195 runs batting first. Services were never in the chase after Rahul Singh departed for a well-made 19-ball 39 and eventually, they were reduced to 160 runs in their 20 overs.

Here are the brief scores from other games that happened.

Brief Scores

Group A

Andhra Pradesh vs Goa

Goa: 113 all out in 19.3 overs (Suyash Prabhudesai 32; C Stephen 3/22)

AP: 114/1 in 13 overs (Srikar Bharat 76)

Andhra Pradesh won by 9 wickets

Baroda vs Services

Baroda: 195/6 in 20 overs (Deepak Hooda 68, Kedar Devdhar 49)

Services: 160/8 in 20 overs (Rahul Singh 39; Atit Sheth 2/23)

Baroda won by 35 runs

Bihar vs Karnataka

Bihar: 106 all out in 19.3 overs (Babul Kumar 41; Shreyas Gopal 2/16)

Karnataka: 107/1 in 11.2 overs (Karun Nair 65*, Devdutt Padikkal 37*)

Karnataka won by 9 wickets

Group B

Tamil Nadu vs Tripura

Tripura: 79/8 in 20 overs (Saurabh Das 44*, Neelambuj Vats 28; Sai Kishore 4/6)

Tamil Nadu: 80/2 in 12.1 overs (Washington Sundar 46, Baba Aparajith 33*)

Tamil Nadu won by 8 wickets

Kerala vs Rajasthan

Kerala: 164/6 in 20 overs (Sanju Samson 53, Sachin Baby 47)

Rajasthan: 167/3 in 17 overs (Rajesh Bishnoi 76*, Arjit Gupta 44*)

Rajasthan won by 7 wickets

Manipur vs Uttar Pradesh

Manipur: 89/7 in 20 overs (Rex Singh 30; Mohsin Khan 2/9)

UP: 93/3 in 12.4 overs (Rinku Singh 39*)

UP won by 7 wickets

Group C

Arunachal Pradesh vs Hyderabad

Arunachal Pradesh: 125/6 in 20 overs (Uvais Ahmed 72*; Ajay Dev Goud 4/15)

Hyderabad: 131/4 in 18.1 overs (Tanmay Agarwal 52; Kengo Goken Bam 2/22)

Hyderabad won by 6 wickets

Himachal Pradesh vs Maharashtra

Himachal Pradesh: 135/8 in 20 overs (Prashant Chopra 28, Abhimanyu Rana 24)

Maharashtra: 138/2 in 19 overs (Ruturaj Gaikwad 82*)

Maharashtra won by 8 wickets

Railways vs Chandigarh

Railways: 196/5 in 20 overs (Pratham Singh 67, Vikrant Rajput 48)

Chandigarh: 195/5 in 20 overs (Ankit Kaushik 74*, Jaskaran Singh 31*)

Railways won by 1 run

Chhattisgarh vs Punjab

Punjab: 169/8 in 20 overs (Anmolpreet Singh 78; Puneet Datey 3/33)

Chhattisgarh: 150/9 in 20 overs (Harpreet Singh 47, Vishal Kushwah 43)

Punjab won by 19 runs

Group D

Mumbai vs Meghalaya

Mumbai: 157/6 in 20 overs (Jay Gokul Bista 44, Suryakumar Yadav 28; Swarajeet Das 2/31)

Meghalaya: 161/4 in 19.2 overs (Dwaraka Ravi Teja 61*, Sanjay Yadav 55)

Meghalaya won by 6 wickets

Bengal vs Madhya Pradesh

MP: 112 all out in 20 overs (Rajat Patidar 43; Akash Depp 3/13)

Bengal: 114/4 in 14.1 overs (Shreevats Goswami 65*)

Bengal won by 6 wickets

Mizoram vs Haryana

Mizoram: 95/5 in 20 overs (KB Pawan 32; Harshal Patel 1/13)

Haryana: 97/3 in 9.4 overs (Chaitanya Bishnoi 42*)

Haryana won by 7 wickets

Assam vs Puducherry

Assam: 102 all out in 18.4 overs (Parvez Aziz 30; Vinay Kumar 4/4)

Puducherry: 106/4 in 18 overs (Paras Dogra 38*, Abu Nechim 1/18)

Puducherry won by 6 wickets

Group E

Saurashtra vs Sikkim

Sikkim: 96 all out in 19.2 overs (Yashpal Singh 41; Jaydev Unadkat 4/5)

Saurashtra: 97/4 in 15.5 overs (Arpit Vasavada 31; Dinesh Rai 2/15)

Saurashtra won by 6 wickets

Gujarat vs Odisha

Odisha: 101 all out in 18.4 overs (Subhranshu Senapathi 32, Biplab Samantray 31; Roosh Kalaria 3/15)

Gujarat: 102/4 in 16.1 overs (B Merai 48*, Priyank Panchal 37)

Gujarat won by 6 wickets

Jammu & Kashmir vs Nagaland

Nagaland: 128/4 in 20 overs (Shrikant Mundhe 63*)

JK: 132/2 in 12 overs (Shubham Khajuria 73*)

JK won by 8 wickets

Delhi vs Jharkhand

Delhi: 176/5 in 20 overs (Nitish Rana 66, Himmat Singh 51*)

Jharkhand: 167/6 in 20 overs (Utkarsh Singh 49*; Nitish Rana 2/22)

Delhi won by 9 runs