2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group A

2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is the seventh season of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, a Twenty20 cricket tournament in India. It is contested by 27 domestic cricket teams of India.^[1] Group A consisted of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Hyderabad, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Vidarbha.

2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group A

Dates	2 January 2016 – 10 January 2016
Administrator	BCCI
Cricket format	Twenty20 cricket
Tournament format	Round robin
Host	Vidarbha
Participants	7
Matches	21

Round 1

2 January 2016 Scorecard

Bengal 185/4 (20 overs)	v	Hyderabad 124 (16.2 overs)

Bengal won by 61 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

• Pramod Chandila (Bengal); Jaweed Ali, Mohammed Siraj and Kolla Sumanth (Hyderabad) all made their T20 debuts.

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2 January 2016 Scorecard

Gujarat 151/6 (20 overs)	v	Himachal Pradesh 152/5 (19.3 overs)

Himachal Pradesh won by 5 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

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2 January 2016 Scorecard

Haryana 113 (19.1 overs)	v	Tamil Nadu 116/1 (16 overs)

Tamil Nadu won by 9 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

• Rahul Dagar, Mohit Hooda, Rohit Sharma (Haryana); Murugan Ashwin and Jagatheesan Kousik (Tamil Nadu) all made their T20 debuts.

Round 2

3 January 2016 Scorecard

Tamil Nadu 151/8 (20 overs)	v	Bengal 82 (15.5 overs)

Tamil Nadu won by 69 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

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3 January 2016 Scorecard

Gujarat 174/7 (20 overs)	v	Vidarbha 114 (18.4 overs)

Gujarat won by 60 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

• Rajneesh Gurbani and Akshay Karnewar (Vidarbha) both made their T20 debuts.

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3 January 2016 Scorecard

Hyderabad 140/9 (20 overs)	v	Himachal Pradesh 126/9 (20 overs)

Hyderabad won by 14 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

Round 3

4 January 2016 Scorecard

Hyderabad 131/7 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat 134/7 (19.3 overs)

Gujarat won by 3 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

• Vishal Sharma (Hyderabad) made his T20 debut.

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4 January 2016 Scorecard

Haryana 136/8 (20 overs)	v	Vidarbha 140/2 (19.3 overs)

Vidarbha won by 8 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

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4 January 2016 Scorecard

Bengal 154/6 (20 overs)	v	Himachal Pradesh 152/3 (20 overs)

Bengal won by 2 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

• Anurag Tiwari (Bengal) made his T20 debut.

Round 4

6 January 2016 Scorecard

Bengal 101 (19.1 overs)	v	Gujarat 104/2 (11.5 overs)

Gujarat won by 8 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

• Mukesh Kumar (Bengal) and Raxlee Taylor (Gujarat) both made their T20 debuts.

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6 January 2016 Scorecard

Hyderabad 173/8 (20 overs)	v	Haryana 138/7 (20 overs)

Hyderabad won by 35 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

• Chaitanya Bishnoi (Haryana) and Annabathula Akash (Hyderabad) both made their T20 debuts.

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6 January 2016 Scorecard

Tamil Nadu 150/8 (20 overs)	v	Vidarbha 154/3 (18.3 overs)

Vidarbha won by 7 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

Round 5

7 January 2016 Scorecard

Bengal 147/5 (20 overs)	v	Vidarbha 151/6 (19.2 overs)

Vidarbha won by 4 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

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7 January 2016 Scorecard

Gujarat 105 (19.4 overs)	v	Tamil Nadu 111/1 (12.5 overs)

Tamil Nadu won by 9 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

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7 January 2016 Scorecard

Haryana 122/9 (20 overs)	v	Himachal Pradesh 123/8 (19.2 overs)

Himachal Pradesh won by 2 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

• Poonish Mehta (Haryana) made his T20 debut.

Round 6

9 January 2016 Scorecard

Tamil Nadu 168/6 (20 overs)	v	Himachal Pradesh 173/4 (16.5 overs)

Himachal Pradesh won by 6 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

• Bharath Shankar (Tamil Nadu) made his T20 debut.

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9 January 2016 Scorecard

Hyderabad 139/7 (20 overs)	v	Vidarbha 142/5 (20 overs)

Vidarbha won by 5 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

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9 January 2016 Scorecard

Haryana 127/3 (20 overs)	v	Bengal 110/8 (20 overs)

Haryana won by 17 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

Round 7

10 January 2016 Scorecard

Haryana 95 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat 99/1 (6.4 overs)

Gujarat won by 9 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

• Kuldeep Ghadvi (Gujarat) and Shamsher Yadav (Haryana) both made their T20 debuts.

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10 January 2016 Scorecard

Hyderabad 140/8 (20 overs)	v	Tamil Nadu 141/6 (18.4 overs)

Tamil Nadu won by 4 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

• Himalay Agarwal, Mehdi Hassan (Hyderabad) and Abhishek Tanwar (Tamil Nadu) all made their T20 debuts.

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10 January 2016 Scorecard

Vidarbha 183/6 (20 overs)	v	Himachal Pradesh 156 (19.5 overs)

Vidarbha won by 27 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur