Cricket tournament
Cricket tournament
2021–22 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group D 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 D.[ 1] [ 2] The tournament was announced by BCCI on 3 July 2021.[ 3]
Gujarat won four of their five matches, with Kerala winning three matches. Therefore, Gujarat advanced to the quarter-finals and Kerala progressed to the preliminary quarter-finals by winning their last league match against Madhya Pradesh .[ 4] [ 5]
Points table
^ Kerala finishing second and qualified for the knockout stage by winning their last league match against Madhya Pradesh, despite having lesser net run rate than the latter team.[ 6]
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Fixtures
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Round 1
Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
Kuldeep Gehi and Shubham Sharma (Madhya Pradesh) both made their T20 debuts.
Railways won the toss and elected to field.
Yashasvi Rishav , Hirshi Raj and Bipin Saurabh (Bihar) all made their T20 debuts.
Gujarat won the toss and elected to field.
Het Patel , Saurav Chauhan (Gujarat), Rojith Ganesh and Sharafuddeen (Kerala) all made their T20 debuts.
Round 2
Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
The match was reduced to 16 overs per side due to bad weather.
Ananta Saha (Railways) made his T20 debut.
Gujarat won the toss and elected to bat.
Bihar won the toss and elected to bat.
Round 3
Kerala won the toss and elected to field.
Bihar won the toss and elected to bat.
Kumar Rajnish and Malay Raj (Bihar) both made their T20 debuts.
Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
Round 4
Kerala won the toss and elected to field.
Sajeevan Akhil (Kerala) made his T20 debut.
Gujarat won the toss and elected to field.
Bihar won the toss and elected to bat.
Shashi Anand and Shekhar Kumar Singh (Bihar) both made their T20 debuts.
Round 5
Gujarat won the toss and elected to field.
Anunay Singh (Bihar) made his T20 debut.
Kerala won the toss and elected to field.
Railways won the toss and elected to bat.
Akash Sengupta (Assam) and Mohammad Saif (Railways) both made their T20 debuts.
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