Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy2024: Teams, Squad, Time, Live Streaming & All you need to know

The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024 is one of India’s premier domestic T20 cricket competitions. Set to begin just ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 mega auction, the tournament will run from November 23 to December 23.

First held in 2007 as an Inter-State Twenty-20 Tournament, the 2024 edition marks the 17th season, featuring 38 teams.

Punjab, led by player-of-the-series Abhishek Sharma, claimed their first title last year. Sharma will continue as captain for the 2024 season.

The 38 teams are split into five groups, with Groups A, B, and C containing eight teams each, and Groups D and E having seven teams each.

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024 groups

• Group A: Bengal, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Hyderabad, Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Bihar
• Group B: Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Saurashtra, Karnataka, Tripura, Baroda, Sikkim, Uttarakhand
• Group C: Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh
• Group D: Assam, Railways, Odisha, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Pondicherry, Chandigarh
• Group E: Mumbai, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Services, Nagaland

When is the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024 beginning?

The SMAT tournament will begin from November 23 with Bihar vs Rajasthan opening match at 1:30 PM IST.

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024 format

Each team will face the other teams in its group in a round-robin format. The top two teams from each group will advance to the knockout stages.

The five group winners, along with the best second-placed team across all groups (determined by points or Net Run Rate), will secure direct entry into the quarter-finals. The remaining four second-placed teams will compete in the pre-quarter-finals.

SMAT 2024 venue

Group	Venue
Group A	Niranjan Shah Stadium complex in Rajkot.
Group B	Holkar Stadium and the Emerald Heights International School Ground in Indore
Group C	Sharad Pawar BKC Academy and Wankhede, Mumbai
Group D	Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam, and Dr PVG Raju ACA Sports Complex, Vizianagaram
Group E	Gymkhana Ground and Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy live streaming details

The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy will be available for live streaming on the Jio Cinema app and website starting from November 23.

Squad

Andhra cricket team: Ricky Bhui (c), Shaik Rasheed (vc), Ashwin Hebbar, Srikar Bharat (wk), SDNV Prasad, KV Sasikanth, Bailapudi Yeswanth, Pyla Avinash, Girinath Reddy, Maramreddy Reddy, Satyanarayana Raju, Bodhala Kumar, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Vamsi Krishna, Tripurana Vijay.

Arunachal Pradesh cricket team: Agnivesh Ayachi, Nabam Tempol, Aditya Verma, Techi Doria, Nabam Hachang, Kara Hakap, Licha Jhon, Aryan Malik, Tadakamalla Mohith, Nabam Abo, Prince Yadav, Abhishek Pujari, Ramesh Rahul, Vivek Ranjan, Yorjum Sera, Techi Sonam, Tana Teti, Toko Techir, Hardik Varma.

Assam cricket team: Denish Das (c), Sumit Ghadigaonkar (vc & wk), Roshan Alam, Avinov Choudhury, Gunjanjyoti Deka, Bhargav Dutta, Mrinmoy Dutta, Saahil Jain, Mukhtar Hussain, Parvej Musaraf, Nipan Deka, Ruhinandan Pegu, Akash Sengupta, Swarupam Purkayastha, Jitumoni Kalita.

Baroda cricket team: Krunal Pandya (c), Vishnu Solanki (vc), Hardik Pandya, Mitesh Patel (wk), Shubham Sharma, Atit Sheth, Akash Singh, Bhargav Bhatt, Raj Limbani, Lukman Meriwala, Jyotsnil Singh, Chintal Gandhi, Bhanu Pania, Mahesh Pithiya, Abhimanyusingh Rajput, Ninad Rathva, Shashwat Rawat, Lakshit Toksiya, Soyeb Sopariya.

Bengal cricket team: Sudip Kumar Gharami (c), Abishek Porel (wk), Sudip Chatterjee, Agniv Pan (wk), Kanishk Seth, Writtick Chatterjee, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sayan Ghosh, Mohammed Shami, Ishan Porel, Prayas Ray Barman, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Mohammed Kaif, Sakshaim Chaudhary, Pradipta Pramanik, Habib Gandhi, Karan Lal, Ranjot Khaira, Ritwik Roy Chowdhury, Soumyadip Mandal.

Bihar cricket team: Sakibul Gani (c), Bipin Saurabh (vc), Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Pratik Kumar, Kumar Rajnish, Sachin Kumar, Sakib Hussain, Apurva Anand, Mayank Choudhary, Himanshu Singh, Danish Choudhary, Ayush Loharuka, Sharman Nigrodh, Raghuvendra Pratap Singh, Mrityunjay Kumar Singh, Nawaz Khan, Paramjeet Singh, Amod Yadav

Chandigarh cricket team: Manan Vohra (c), Raj Bawa, Sandeep Sharma, Bhagmender Lather, Arjun Azad, Arslan Khan, Shivam Bhambri, Chiragvir Dhindsa, Gaurav Puri, Jagjit Singh, Amrit Lubana, Nikhil Sharma, Nishunk Birla, Pradeep Yadav, Mayank Sidhu.

Chhattisgarh cricket team: Amandeep Khare (c), Eknath Kerkar (wk), Ajay Mandal, Shashank Singh, Shubham Agarwal, Ashutosh Singh, Sanjeet Desai, Jivesh Butte, Ashish Chouhan, Shashank Chadrakar, Anuj Tiwary, Gagandeep Singh, Vishvas Malik, Sourabh Majumdar, Mayank Yadav, Ayush Pandey, Ravi Kiran, Prateek Yadav.

Delhi cricket team: Ayush Badoni (c), Anuj Rawat (wk), Vansh Bedi (wk), Yash Dhull, Himmat Singh, Sarthak Ranjan, Prince Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Suyash Sharma, Aayush Singh, Akhil Chaudhary, Priyansh Arya, Aryan Rana, Simarjeet Singh, Harsh Tyagi, Himanshu Chauhan, Dhruv Kaushik, Mayank Gusain, Vaibhav Kandpal, Jonty Sidhu, Mayank Rawat, Prince Choudhary, Pranav Rajuvanshi, Digvesh Rathi.

Goa cricket team: Deepraj Gaonkar (c), Suyash Prabhudessai (vc), Rohan Kadam, Krishnamurthy Siddharth, Darshan Misal, Felix Alemao, Arjun Tendulkar, Kashyap Bakhale, Shivendra Bhujbal, Ishaan Gadekar, Heramb Parab, Vijesh Prabhudessai, Mohit Redkar, Vikas Singh, Shubham Tari.

Gujarat cricket team: Axar Patel (c), Chintan Gaja, Aarya Desai, Ravi Bishnoi, Ripal Patel, Urvil Patel (wk), Arzan Nagwaswalla, Saurav Chauhan, Abhishek Desai, Umang Kumar, Priyajitsing Jadeja, Tejas Patel, Hemang Patel, Smit Patel, Jayveer Parmar, Vishal Jayswal, Dhrushant Soni.

Haryana cricket team: Ankit Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Anshul Kamboj, Dinesh Bana (wk), Himanshu Rana, Rohit Sharma (wk), Yuvraj Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Sumit Kumar, Rahul Tewatia, Harshal Patel, Amit Rana, Mohit Sharma, Yash Dalal, Dheeru Singh, Aman Kumar, Parth Vats.

Himachal Pradesh cricket team: Rishi Dhawan (c), Ankush Bains (wk), Prashant Chopra, Ekant Sen, Mayank Dagar, Akash Vasisht, Sumeet Verma, Kanwar Abhinay, Vaibhav Arora, Arpit Guleria, Divesh Sharma, Mukul Negi, Shubham Arora, Ayush Jamwal, Mridul Surroch.

Hyderabad cricket team: Tilak Varma (c), Rahul Singh (vc), Tanmay Agarwal, Rahul Buddhi, Tanay Thyagarajan, Chama Milind, Rakshan Readdi, Aman Rao, Anikethreddy, Mickil Jaiswal, Prateek Reddy, Saranu Nishanth, Rahul Radesh, Rohit Rayudu, Ravi Teja.

Jammu & Kashmir cricket team: Paras Dogra (c), Shubham Khajuria, Abdul Samad, Qamran Iqbal, Irfan-ul-Haq, Murugan Ashwin, Abid Mushtaq, Vivrant Sharma, Rasikh Salam, Yudhvir Singh, Auqib Nabi, Lone Nasir, Sahil Lotra, Shivansh Sharma, Musaif Ajaz.

Jharkhand cricket team: Virat Singh (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Kumar Kushagra (wk), Pankaj Kumar (wk), Robin Minz (wk), Anukul Roy, Utkarsh Singh, Sushant Mishra, Manishi, Ravi Kumar Yadav, Bal Krishna, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Deobrat, Vikash Singh, Varun Aaron.

Karnataka cricket team: Mayank Agarwal (c), Manish Pandey (vc), KV Aneesh, LR Chetan (wk), Vijaykumar Vyshak, Manoj Bhandage, Krishnan Srijith (wk), Shubhang Hegde, R Smaran, Shreyas Gopal, Vasuki Koushik, Vidyadhar Patil, Abhinav Manohar, Macneil Noronha, Manvanth Kumar, Praveen Dubey.

Kerala cricket team: Sanju Samson (c & wk), Sachin Baby, Rohan Kunnummal, Jalaj Saxena, Vishnu Vinod (wk), Mohd. Azharudeen (wk), Basil Thampi, Salman Nizar, Abdul Basith, Akhil Scaria, M Ajnas, Sijomon Joseph, Sudhesan Midhun, Vaisakh Chandran, Nidheesh MD.

Madhya Pradesh cricket team: Rajat Patidar (c), Harpreet Singh, Subhranshu Senapati, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Kulwant Khejroliya, Abhishek Pathak, Pankaj Sharma, Shivam Shukla, Kamal Tripathi, Arpit Gaud, Rahul Batham, Tripuresh Singh, Vikas Sharma.

Maharashtra cricket team: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Nikhil Naik (wk), Ankit Bawne, Rahul Tripathi, Arshin Kulkarni, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Mukesh Choudhary, Vicky Ostwal, Satyajeet Bachhav, Prashant Solanki, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Atharva Kale, Azim Kazi, Divyang Hinganekar, Siddharth Mhatre, Sunny Pandit, Rushabh Rathod, Dhanraj Shinde.

Manipur cricket team: Ahmed Shah, Al Bashid Muhammed, Bidash Chingakham, Johnson Singh, Ulenyai Khwairakpam, L Kishan Singha, Bishworjit Konthoujam, Rex Rajkumar, Lamabam Singh, Lamabam Singh, Soubam Rohit Singh, Pheiroijam Jotin, Kangabam Priyojit, Somorjit Salam, Sougrakpam Singh.

Meghalaya cricket team: Arpit Bhatewara, Aryan Bora, Anish Charak, Akash Choudhary, Himan Phukan, Ram Gurung, Jaskirat Singh Sachdeva, Roberth Sangma, Wanlambok Nongkhlaw, Arien Sangma, Larry Sangma, Dippu Sangma, Ibitlang Thabah, Swarajeet Das, Roshan Warbah.

Mizoram cricket team: Bobby Zothansanga (c), Vikhash Kumar, KC Cariappa, Jehu Anderson, Agni Chopra, Naveen Gurung, Mohit Jangra, Lal Rin Fela, Lalhriatrenga, Lalrinchhana, Joseph Lalthankhuma, Parvez Ahmed, Lalhruai Ralte, F Vanlalmuanzuala, Khiangte Vanrotlinga.

Mumbai cricket team: Shreyas Iyer (c), Prithvi Shaw, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Jay Bista, Ajinkya Rahane, Siddhesh Lad, Suryansh Shedge, Sairaj Patil, Hardik Tamore (wk), Aakash Anand (wk), Shams Mulani, Himanshu Singh, Tanush Kotian, Shardul Thakur, Mohit Avasthi, Royston Dias, Mohammad Juned Khan.

Nagaland cricket team: Rongsen Jonathan (c), Chetan Bist (wk), Joshua Ozukum, Hokaito Zhimomi, Imliwati Lemtur, Chopise Hopongkyu, Jagadeesha Suchith, Afzal Hussain, Dip Borah, Hem Chetri, Khrievitso Kense, Moakumzuk Tzudir, Nagaho Chishi, Dega Nischal, Sedezhalie Rupero, Shamphri Terang.

Odisha cricket team: Govinda Poddar (c), Abhishek Yadav, Gourav Choudhury, Prabin Luha, Kartik Biswal, Rakesh Pattnaik, Sandeep Pattnaik, Debabrata Pradhan, Rajesh Mohanty, Harshit Rathod, Swastik Samal, Aasirwad Swain, Tarani Sa.

Puducherry cricket team: Arun Karthik (wk), Aman Khan, Ankit Sharma, Tejas Baroka, Mohamed Safeequddin, Fabid Ahmed, Gaurav Yadav, Akash Kargave, Marimuthu Vikneshwaran, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Jayasundaram Karthikeyan, Krishna Pandey, Nadeem Khan, Ajay Rohera, Sabhay Chadha, Sidak Singh.

Punjab cricket team: Abhishek Sharma (c), Prabhsimran Singh (vc &wk), Naman Dhir, Anmolpreet Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Sanvir Singh, Baltej Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Mayank Markhande, Sanyam Arora, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Ashwani Kumar, Sohraab Dhaliwal, Harnoor Singh, Jassinder Singh.

Railways cricket team: Upendra Yadav (c & wk), Pratham Singh, Suraj Ahuja (wk), Vivek Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Samarth Vyas, Karn Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Kunal Yadav, Akash Pandey, Susheel Kumar, Navneet Virk, Akshat Pandey.

Rajasthan cricket team: Mahipal Lomror (c), Manav Suthar (vc), Deepak Hooda, Sumit Godara, Kartik Sharma, Abhijeet Tomar, Rajesh Bishnoi, Aditya Rathore, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Rahul Chahar, Deepak Chahar, Aniket Choudhary, Bharat Sharma, Ram Chouhan, Zubair Ali.

Saurashtra cricket team: Jaydev Unadkat (c), Harvik Desai (wk), Tarang Gohel (wk), Yuvraj Chudasama, Ruchit Ahir, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Sammar Gajjar, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Parth Bhut, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Ankur Panwar, Jay Gohil, Siddhant Rana, Hetvik Kotak, Devang Karamta.

Services cricket team: Shubham Rohilla (c), Rajat Paliwal, Gaurav Kochar, Arun Kumar, Mohit Rathee, Mohit Ahlawat, Vishal Gaur, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Yadav, Poonam Poonia, Kunwar Pathak, Gaurav Sharma, Nitin Tanwar, Vikas Yadav, Amit Shukla.

Sikkim cricket team: Lee Yong Lepcha (c), Ankur Malik, Ronit More, Pranesh Chettri, Nilesh Lamichaney, Robin Limboo, Bhim Luitel, Md Saptulla, Parth Palawat, Saurav Prasad, Roshan Kumar, Anwesh Sharma, Palzor Tamang, Tarun Sharma, Ashish Thapa.

Tamil Nadu cricket team: M Shahrukh Khan (c), Sai Sudharsan (vc), Vijay Shankar, Pradosh Ranjan Paul (wk), Tushar Raheja (wk), Boopathi Kumar, Mohamed Ali, Narayan Jagadeesan (wk), Baba Indrajith, Rithik Easwaran (wk), Sai Kishore, Manimaran Siddharth, Varun Chakravarthy, Sandeep Warrier, Gurjapneet Singh, Sonu Yadav, Mohammed Mohammed.

Tripura cricket team: Mandeep Singh (c), Bikramkumar Das, Rajat Dey, Srinivas Sharath (wk), Manisankar Murasingh (vc), Sridam Paul, Parvez Sultan, Sankar Paul, Babul Dey, Ajay Sarkar, Subham Ghosh, Saurabh Das, Sanjay Majumder, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Jiwanjot Singh, Abhijith Sarkar, Samrat Sutradhar, Viki Saha, Chiranjit Paul

Uttar Pradesh cricket team: Bhuvneshwar Kumar (c), Madhav Kaushik (vc), Aryan Juyal (wk), Swastik Chikara, Priyam Garg, Sameer Rizvi, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Piyush Chawla, Karan Sharma, Yash Dayal, Aaditya Sharma, Aaqib Khan, Mohsin Khan, Vipraj Nigam, Shivam Sharma, Shivam Mavi, Karthikeya Jaiswal, Vineet Panwar

Uttarakhand cricket team: Ravikumar Samarth, Aditya Tare (wk), Yuvraj Chaudhary, Akash Madhwal, Rajan Kumar, Agrim Tiwari, Swapnil Singh, Avneesh Sudha, Himanshu Bisht, Kunal Chandela, Akhil Rawat, Prashant Chauhan, Mukesh Gupta, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Sanskar Rawat, Piyush Singh, Sparsh Joshi, Vijay Sharma

Vidarbha cricket team: Jitesh Sharma (c & wk), Atharva Taide (vc), Akshay Wadkar (wk), Shubham Dubey, Aman Mokhade, Karun Nair, Apoorv Wankhade, Darshan Nalkande, Yash Thakur, Harsh Dubey, Akshay Karnewar, Dipesh Parwani, Umesh Yadav, Praful Hinge, Parth Rekhade, Mandar Mahale, Danish Malewar.