2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group B

2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group B

Dates	21 February – 2 March 2019
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	Twenty20 cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and Playoff format
Participants	8

The 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy was the tenth season of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, a Twenty20 cricket tournament in India. It was contested by the 37 domestic cricket teams of India, with eight teams in Group B.[1][2] The group stage started on 21 February 2019, with the top two teams progressing to the Super League section of the competition.[3]

Vidarbha won the group, with Gujarat finishing second to progress to the Super League phase of the tournament.[4]

Points table

Team[5] v t e	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
Vidarbha	6	5	1	0	0	20	+1.083
Gujarat (H)	6	4	2	0	0	16	+1.280
Himachal Pradesh	6	4	2	0	0	16	+0.705
Tamil Nadu	6	4	2	0	0	16	+0.397
Rajasthan	6	3	3	0	0	12	+0.758
Bihar	6	1	5	0	0	4	–1.877
Meghalaya	6	0	6	0	0	0	–2.311

•   Top two teams advances to the Super League.

(H)- Host

Fixtures

Round 1

21 February 2019 Scorecard

Gujarat 146/8 (20 overs)	v	Meghalaya 133/8 (20 overs)
Axar Patel 48 (37) Abhay Negi 3/30 (4 overs)		Puneet Bisht 56 (34) Piyush Chawla 3/17 (4 overs)

Gujarat won by 13 runs Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Somnath Jha

• Meghalaya won the toss and elected to field.
• Hemang Patel, Tejas Patel, Manish Sharma (Gujarat), Aditya Singhania, Jason Lamare, Neetesh Sharma, Wanlambok Nongkhlaw, Raj Biswa, Swarajeet Das and Akash Choudhary (Meghalaya) all made their T20 debuts.

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21 February 2019 Scorecard

Rajasthan 181/4 (20 overs)	v	Tamil Nadu 128 (19.5 overs)
Mahipal Lomror 78* (52) Murugan Ashwin 2/33 (4 overs)		Shahrukh Khan 23 (19) Khaleel Ahmed 3/14 (3.5 overs)

Rajasthan won by 53 runs CB Patel International Cricket Stadium, Surat Umpires: Abhijit Bengeri and Virender Sharma

• Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to field.
• Rajendran Vivek, Chezhian Harinishanth (Tamil Nadu) and Ravi Bishnoi (Rajasthan) all made their T20 debuts.

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21 February 2019 Scorecard

Himachal Pradesh 167/8 (20 overs)	v	Vidarbha 171/7 (20 overs)
Ekant Sen 52 (39) Shrikant Wagh 3/32 (4 overs)		Atharva Taide 43 (16) Prashant Chopra 2/18 (3 overs)

Vidarbha won by 3 wickets Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Somnath Jha

• Himachal Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• Ekant Sen, Nitin Sharma, Ankit Maini, Ayush Jamwal (Himachal Pradesh), Atharva Taide, Darshan Nalkande and Yash Thakur (Vidarbha) all made their T20 debuts.

Round 2

22 February 2019 Scorecard

Himachal Pradesh 207/4 (20 overs)	v	Meghalaya 142/6 (20 overs)
Ankush Bains 68 (36) Neetesh Sharma 1/17 (1 over)		Gurinder Singh 49* (34) Ankit Maini 3/24 (4 overs)

Himachal Pradesh won by 65 runs CB Patel International Cricket Stadium, Surat Umpires: Abhijit Bengeri and Somnath Jha

• Meghalaya won the toss and elected to field.
• Amiangshu Sen (Meghalaya) made his T20 debut.

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22 February 2019 Scorecard

Bihar 103/8 (20 overs)	v	Vidarbha 104/3 (14.2 overs)
Babul Kumar 27 (31) Yash Thakur 2/12 (3 overs)		Shalabh Shrivastava 49* (38) Vivek Kumar 2/27 (4 overs)

Vidarbha won by 7 wickets Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Virender Sharma

• Vidarbha won the toss and elected to field.
• Mangal Mahrour, Vijay Bharti, Babul Kumar, MD Rahmatullah, Asfan Khan, Ashutosh Aman, Vivek Kumar, Prashant Singh and Vishal Das (Bihar) all made their T20 debuts.

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22 February 2019 Scorecard

Rajasthan 143/7 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat 143/7 (20 overs)
Manender Singh 48 (35) Tejas Patel 4/26 (4 overs)		Axar Patel 33 (25) Khaleel Ahmed 3/19 (4 overs)

Match tied (Gujarat won the Super Over) Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Virender Sharma

• Rajasthan won the toss and elected to bat.
• The scores were level after the Super Over. Gujarat won the match by scoring more boundaries during their innings.[6]

Round 3

24 February 2019 Scorecard

Bihar 134/9 (20 overs)	v	Tamil Nadu 132/4 (18.5 overs)
MD Rahmatullah 32 (18) M Mohammed 3/21 (4 overs)		Baba Indrajith 46 (47) Ashutosh Aman 2/19 (4 overs)

Tamil Nadu won by 6 wickets CB Patel International Cricket Stadium, Surat Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Virender Sharma

• Bihar won the toss and elected to bat.
• NS Chaturved and Piyush Singh (Bihar) both made their T20 debuts.

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24 February 2019 Scorecard

Gujarat 167/5 (20 overs)	v	Himachal Pradesh 97 (15.1 overs)
Dhruv Raval 71* (49) Mayank Dagar 1/20 (4 overs)		Prashant Chopra 35 (35) Hemang Patel 3/14 (3 overs)

Gujarat won by 70 runs Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Abhijit Bengeri and Somnath Jha

• Himachal Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
• Kavish Panchal (Gujarat) and KD Singh (Himachal Pradesh) both made their T20 debuts.

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24 February 2019 Scorecard

Rajasthan 136/5 (20 overs)	v	Meghalaya 65 (16.1 overs)
Mahipal Lomror 47 (46) Abhay Negi 2/19 (3 overs)		Gurinder Singh 24 (31) Nathu Singh 3/7 (3 overs)

Rajasthan won by 72 runs Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Abhijit Bengeri and Somnath Jha

• Rajasthan won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 4

25 February 2019 Scorecard

Tamil Nadu 125/6 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat 124 (19.5 overs)
NS Chaturved 34 (38) Arzan Nagwaswalla 3/11 (4 overs)		Chirag Gandhi 68* (66) Washington Sundar 2/10 (3 overs)

Tamil Nadu won by 1 run Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Abhijit Bengeri and Somnath Jha

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

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25 February 2019 Scorecard

Vidarbha 117 (16.5 overs)	v	Rajasthan 73 (16.5 overs)
Jitesh Sharma 49 (29) Khaleel Ahmed 5/18 (2.5 overs)		Manender Singh 24 (22) Akshay Karnewar 4/7 (3.5 overs)

Vidarbha won by 44 runs CB Patel International Cricket Stadium, Surat Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Virender Sharma

• Vidarbha won the toss and elected to bat.

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25 February 2019 Scorecard

Bihar 78 (18.5 overs)	v	Himachal Pradesh 81/1 (10.3 overs)
Asfan Khan 25 (24) Gurvinder Singh 2/11 (3 overs)		Ankush Bains 54* (40) Samar Quadri 1/14 (2.3 overs)

Himachal Pradesh won by 9 wickets Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Abhijit Bengeri and Somnath Jha

• Bihar won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 5

27 February 2019 Scorecard

Vidarbha 161/6 (20 overs)	v	Meghalaya 129/4 (20 overs)
Shalabh Shrivastava 56 (43) Raj Biswa 2/26 (4 overs)		Gurinder Singh 56* (37) Yash Thakur 2/27 (3 overs)

Vidarbha won by 32 runs Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Abhijit Bengeri and Virender Sharma

• Meghalaya won the toss and elected to field.
• Larry Sangma (Meghalaya) and Rushabh Rathod (Vidarbha) both made their T20 debuts.

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27 February 2019 Scorecard

Tamil Nadu 138/9 (20 overs)	v	Himachal Pradesh 139/3 (19 overs)
Murali Vijay 77 (58) Ankit Maini 3/29 (4 overs)		Prashant Chopra 68* (53) Abhishek Tanwar 2/14 (3 overs)

Himachal Pradesh won by 7 wickets Pithwala Stadium, Surat Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Somnath Jha

• Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to bat.

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27 February 2019 Scorecard

Gujarat 199/4 (20 overs)	v	Bihar 116/7 (20 overs)
Priyank Kirit Panchal 78 (46) Vishal Das 2/40 (4 overs)		Keshav Kumar 61* (62) Arzan Nagwaswalla 4/25 (4 overs)

Gujarat won by 43 runs Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Abhijit Bengeri and Virender Sharma

• Gujarat won the toss and elected to bat.
• Piyush Tanwar (Gujarat) made his T20 debut.

Round 6

28 February 2019 Scorecard

Meghalaya 124/8 (20 overs)	v	Bihar 126/9 (19.5 overs)
Gurinder Singh 39* (37) Ashutosh Aman 4/15 (4 overs)		Keshav Kumar 43 (40) Amiangshu Sen 1/13 (4 overs)

Bihar won by 1 wicket Pithwala Stadium, Surat Umpires: Abhijit Bengeri and Virender Sharma

• Meghalaya won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rajesh Tati (Meghalaya) and Puneet Malik (Bihar) both made their T20 debuts.

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28 February 2019 Scorecard

Himachal Pradesh 150/5 (20 overs)	v	Rajasthan 141/7 (20 overs)
Ankush Bains 55 (47) Rahul Chahar 2/21 (3 overs)		Chetan Bist 34 (23) Ankit Maini 3/29 (4 overs)

Himachal Pradesh won by 9 runs Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Somnath Jha

• Himachal Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.

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28 February 2019 Scorecard

Vidarbha 141/9 (20 overs)	v	Tamil Nadu 142/7 (19.2 overs)
Rushabh Rathod 51 (31) Abhishek Tanwar 3/22 (4 overs)		Murali Vijay 74 (47) Shrikant Wagh 2/23 (4 overs)

Tamil Nadu won by 3 wickets Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Somnath Jha

• Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to field.

Round 7

2 March 2019 Scorecard

Rajasthan 129/8 (20 overs)	v	Bihar 110/8 (20 overs)
Robin Bist 34 (28) Prashant Singh 3/23 (3 overs)		Mangal Mahrour 33 (32) Aniket Choudhary 3/16 (4 overs)

Rajasthan won by 19 runs Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Somnath Jha and Virender Sharma

• Rajasthan won the toss and elected to bat.
• Siddharth Saraf and Ramnivas Golada (Rajasthan) both made their T20 debuts.

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2 March 2019 Scorecard

Gujarat 121/6 (20 overs)	v	Vidarbha 122/5 (18.2 overs)
Priyank Kirit Panchal 38 (34) Atharva Taide 2/16 (4 overs)		Faiz Fazal 39* (39) Manish Sharma 2/25 (4 overs)

Vidarbha won by 5 wickets Pithwala Stadium, Surat Umpires: Abhijit Bengeri and Nikhil Patwardhan

• Gujarat won the toss and elected to bat.

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2 March 2019 Scorecard

Tamil Nadu 213/2 (20 overs)	v	Meghalaya 121/4 (20 overs)
Murali Vijay 107 (67) Akash Choudhary 2/39 (4 overs)		Gurinder Singh 38* (30) Murugan Ashwin 2/16 (4 overs)

Tamil Nadu won by 92 runs Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Somnath Jha and Virender Sharma

• Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to bat.
• Laxman Chetri and Lakhan Singh (Meghalaya) both made their T20 debuts.

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