Cricket tournament
Cricket tournament
2021–22 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group A Dates 4 – 22 November 2021 Administrator(s) BCCI Cricket format Twenty20 cricket Tournament format(s) Round-robin Participants 6
The 2021–22 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy was the fourteenth season of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy , a Twenty20 cricket tournament played in India. It was contested by 38 teams, divided into six groups, with six teams in Group A.[ 1] [ 2] The tournament was announced by BCCI on 3 July 2021.[ 3]
Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu both won four matches, with Maharashtra topping the group on net run rate . Therefore, Tamil Nadu advanced to the quarter-finals by winning their last league match against Maharashtra and the latter progressed to the preliminary quarter-finals .[ 4] [ 5]
Points table
^ Tamil Nadu finishing first and qualified for the quarter finals by winning their last league match against Maharashtra, despite having lesser net run rate than the latter team.[ 6]
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Fixtures
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Round 1
Maharashtra won the toss and elected to field.
Ashay Palkar (Maharashtra) and Sai Sudharsan (Tamil Nadu) both made their T20 debuts.
Pondicherry won the toss and elected to bat.
Bharat Sharma, Iqlas Naha (Pondicherry) and Sanvir Singh (Punjab) all made their T20 debuts.
Odisha won the toss and elected to field.
Ishaan Gadekar (Goa) and Bikash Rout (Odisha) both made their T20 debuts.
Round 2
Maharashtra won the toss and elected to field.
Odisha won the toss and elected to field.
Goa won the toss and elected to bat.
Round 3
Goa won the toss and elected to field.
Nihal Surlaker (Goa) made his T20 debut.
Maharashtra won the toss and elected to bat.
Round 4
Punjab won the toss and elected to bat.
Maharashtra won the toss and elected to bat.
Manogaran Pooviarasan and Logesh Prabagaran (Pondicherry) both made their T20 debuts.
Round 5
Pondicherry won the toss and elected to field.
B Shiva and Harshit Rathod (Odisha) both made their T20 debuts.
Maharashtra won the toss and elected to bat.
Punjab won the toss and elected to bat.
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