2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

The 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy was the eighth edition of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, an annual Twenty20 tournament in India. Played from 2 to 20 January 2016, it was contested by all 27 Ranji Trophy teams. Uttar Pradesh won the championship, claiming their first title.^[1]

2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

Dates	2 – 20 January 2016
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	T20
Tournament format(s)	Round robin, then knockout
Champions	Uttar Pradesh (1st title)
Participants	27
Matches	91
Most runs	Hardik Pandya (377) (Baroda)
Most wickets	Irfan Pathan (17) (Baroda)
Official website	http://www.bcci.tv
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

Teams

The teams were divided into 4 groups:^[2]

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Gujarat Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Bengal Tamil Nadu Haryana Vidarbha (Host)	Punjab Rajasthan Jharkhand Saurashtra Tripura Kerala (Host) Jammu & Kashmir	Madhya Pradesh Andhra Delhi Railways Baroda (Host) Assam Goa	Mumbai Odisha (Host) Karnataka Services Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra

Group stage

Group A

Main article: 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group A

Points table

Team[3]	Pld	W	L	Tie	A	Pts	NRR
Vidarbha	6	5	1	0	0	20	0.017
Gujarat	6	4	2	0	0	16	1.559
Tamil Nadu	6	4	2	0	0	16	1.136
Himachal Pradesh	6	3	3	0	0	12	-0.025
Hyderabad	6	2	4	0	0	8	-0.270
Bengal	6	2	4	0	0	8	-0.786
Haryana	6	1	5	0	0	4	-1.406

Group B

Main article: 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group B

Points table

Team[3]	Pld	W	L	Tie	A	Pts	NRR
Kerala	6	5	1	0	0	20	0.873
Jharkhand	6	5	1	0	0	20	0.799
Saurashtra	6	4	2	0	0	16	1.050
Punjab	6	3	3	0	0	12	0.528
Rajasthan	6	2	4	0	0	8	0.034
Tripura	6	2	4	0	0	8	-1.079
Jammu & Kashmir	6	0	6	0	0	0	-2.235

Group C

Main article: 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group C

Points table

Team[3]	Pld	W	L	Tie	A	Pts	NRR
Delhi	6	6	0	0	0	36	+1.936
Baroda	6	5	1	0	0	20	1.693
Madhya Pradesh	6	4	2	0	0	16	0.109
Railways	6	2	4	0	0	8	-0.059
Assam	6	2	4	0	0	8	-1.058
Goa	6	1	5	0	0	4	-1.060
Andhra Pradesh	6	1	5	0	0	4	-1.485

Group D

Main article: 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group D

Points table

Team[3]	Pld	W	L	Tie	A	Pts	NRR
Uttar Pradesh	5	5	0	0	0	20	1.236
Mumbai	5	3	2	0	0	12	0.621
Maharashtra	5	3	2	0	0	12	0.152
Karnataka	5	2	3	0	0	10	-0.210
Services	5	2	3	0	0	8	-0.898
Odisha	5	0	5	0	0	0	-0.819

Super League

Super League A

Points table

Team[3]	Pld	W	L	Tie	A	Pts	NRR
Baroda	3	2	1	0	0	8	+0.299
Mumbai	3	2	1	0	0	8	+0.196
Kerala	3	2	1	0	0	8	+0.172
Vidarbha	3	0	3	0	0	0	-0.657

Matches

15 January 2016 Scorecard

Vidarbha 162/5 (20 overs)	v	Baroda 168/4 (19 overs)
Ganesh Satish 54 (31) Irfan Pathan 1/32 (4 overs)		Hardik Pandya 86 (46) Ravi Jangid 2/36 (3 overs)

Baroda won by 6 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Nand Kishore (Ind) Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind)

• Baroda won the toss and elected the field.

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15 January 2016 Scorecard

Kerala 160/7 (20 overs)	v	Mumbai 164/4 (19.1 vers)
Rohan Prem 69 (45) Sagar Trivedi 3/34 (4 overs)		Aditya Tare 71 (46) Unnikrishnan Manukrishnan 2/36 (4 overs)

Mumbai won by 6 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan (Ind) and Subrat Das (Ind)

• Mumbai won the toss and elected to field.

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16 January 2016 Scorecard

Baroda 160/6 (20 overs)	v	Kerala 164/6 (19.4 overs)
Irfan Pathan 35* (18) Padmanabhan Prasanth 2/15 (4 overs)		Raiphi Gomez 47* (21) Irfan Pathan 2/14 (4 overs)

Kerala won by 4 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Subrat Das

• Kerala won the toss and elected to field.

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16 January 2016 Scorecard

Vidarbha 181/4 (20 overs)	v	Mumbai 182/5 (18.5 overs)
Jitesh Sharma 56 (30) Sagar Trivedi 2/44 (4 overs)		Shreyas Iyer 86 (51) Ravikumar Thakur 2/32 (3.5 overs)

Mumbai won by 5 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Nand Kishore and Krishnamachari Srinivasan

• Mumbai won the toss and elected to field.

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18 January 2016 Scorecard

Vidarbha 105 (19.3 overs)	v	Kerala 109/8 (18.4 overs)
Urvesh Patel 28 (25) Nizar Niyas 3/14 (4 overs)		Rohan Prem 34 (34) Akshay Wakhare 3/26 (4 overs)

Kerala won by 2 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan (Ind) and Subrat Das (Ind)

• Kerala won the toss and elected to field.

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18 January 2016 Scorecard

Mumbai 151/5 (20 overs)	v	Baroda 153/9 (19 overs)
Suryakumar Yadav 57 (36) Bhargav Bhatt 2/25 (4 overs)		Deepak Hooda 53 (35) Pravin Tambe 3/26 (4 overs)

Baroda won by 1 wicket Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Nand Kishore and Krishnamachari Srinivasan

• Baroda won the toss and elected to field.
• Shivam Dube (Mumbai) made his T20 debut.

Super League B

Points table

Team[3]	Pld	W	L	Tie	A	Pts	NRR
Uttar Pradesh	3	3	0	0	0	12	+0.688
Gujarat	3	2	1	0	0	8	+1.180
Delhi	3	1	2	0	0	4	-0.059
Jharkhand	3	0	3	0	0	0	-1.714

Matches

15 January 2016 Scorecard

Delhi 170/5 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat 171/2 (17.3 overs)
Unmukt Chand 103 (58) RP Singh 1/29 (4 overs)		Priyank Kirit Panchal 68* (45) Parvinder Awana 1/23 (3 overs)

Gujarat won by 8 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Belur Ravi (Ind) and Chirra Ravikanthreddy (Ind)

• Gujarat won the toss and elected to field.

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15 January 2016 Scorecard

Jharkhand 133/7 (20 overs)	v	Uttar Pradesh 134/1 (16.5 overs)
Shasheem Rathour 40 (43) Amit Mishra 2/14 (4 overs)		Samarth Singh 64 (49) Kaushal Singh 1/18 (1.5 overs)

Uttar Pradesh won by 9 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Anil Dandekar (Ind) and Rajesh Deshpande (Ind)

• Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.

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16 January 2016 Scorecard

Gujarat 165/6 (20 overs)	v	Uttar Pradesh 167/3 (19 overs)
Manpreet Juneja 54 (40) Praveen Kumar 2/32 (4 overs)		Samarth Singh 65* (47) Rush Kalaria 2/19 (3 overs)

Uttar Pradesh won by 7 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Belur Ravi and Chirra Ravikanthreddy

• Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.

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16 January 2016 Scorecard

Jharkhand 134/7 (20 overs)	v	Delhi 138/5 (18 overs)
Virat Singh 45 (44) Parvinder Awana 3/28 (4 overs)		Nitish Rana 60* (44) Varun Aaron 3/27 (4 overs)

Delhi won by 5 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Rajesh Deshpande

• Delhi won the toss and elected to field.

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18 January 2016 Scorecard

Jharkhand 142/6 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat 146/4 (14.1 overs)
Ishank Jaggi 39 (24) Rush Kalaria 2/34 (4 overs)		Priyank Kirit Panchal 35 (28) Kaushal Singh 2/21 (2 overs)

Gujarat won by 6 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Belur Ravi (Ind) and Chirra Ravikanthreddy (Ind)

• Gujarat won the toss and elected to field.
• Santosh Shinde (Gujarat) made his T20 debut.

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18 January 2016 Scorecard

Delhi 158/6 (20 overs)	v	Uttar Pradesh 159/7 (19.4 overs)
Unmukt Chand 48 (35) Amit Mishra 2/25 (4 overs)		Eklavya Dwivedi 49* (35) Navdeep Saini 2/24 (4 overs)

Uttar Pradesh won by 3 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Rajesh Deshpande

• Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.

Final

Source:^[4]

20 January 2016 18:30 Local (D/N) Scorecard

Uttar Pradesh 163/7 (20 overs)	v	Baroda 125/7 (20 overs)
Prashant Gupta 49 (41) Bhargav Bhatt 2/13 (2 overs)		Soaeb Tai 26* (23) Ankit Rajpoot 3/30 (4 overs)

Uttar Pradesh won by 38 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) and Nand Kishore (Ind) Player of the match: Suresh Raina (Uttar Pradesh)

• Baroda won the toss and elected to field.
• Uttar Pradesh remained unbeaten during the tournament.

Statistics

Batting

Source: Cricinfo^[5]

Player	Team	Matches	Runs	Ave.	SR	HS	100	50
Hardik Pandya	Baroda	10	377	53.85	130.90	86*	0	2
Rohan Prem	Kerala	9	356	44.50	117.10	69	0	3
Jitesh Sharma	Vidarbha	9	343	38.11	143.51	106	1	2
Parthiv Patel	Gujarat	9	337	42.12	162.80	70	0	4
Prashant Gupta	Uttar Pradesh	9	317	39.62	118.72	53	0	1

Bowling

Source: Cricinfo^[6]

Player	Team	Matches	Wickets	Econ.	Ave.	BBI	4WI	5WI
Irfan Pathan	Baroda	10	17	7.30	15.76	5/13	1	1
Piyush Chawla	Uttar Pradesh	9	15	5.94	13.86	4/28	1	0
Dhawal Kulkarni	Mumbai	8	15	6.72	14.20	3/35	0	0
CV Stephen	Andhra	6	14	5.80	8.50	5/52	2	1
Nathu Singh	Rajasthan	6	14	5.00	8.57	4/13	2	0