SMAT 2024 Round 2 Highlights: Baroda Beat Uttarakhand By 5 Wickets, Bengal Seal 8-Wicket Win Over Hyderabad

Hello and welcome to the round 2 fixtures of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024, 🐷𒁃today.

Highlight Fixtures:

• Kerala vs Maharashtra

• Delhi vs Jammu and Kashmir

• Bengal vs Hyderabad

• Gujarat vs Saurashtra

Mizoram have won the toss and♛ have opted to field against Rajasthan.

Playing XIs

Mizoram: Jehu Anderson(w), Agni Chopra, F Vanlalmuanzuala, Mohit Jangra, Vikash Kumar, KC Cariap🐬pa, Lalhruai Ralte, Bobby Zothansanga(c), Joseph Lalthankhuma, Khiangte Vanrotlinga, Naveen Gurung

Rajasthan: Abhijeet Tomar, Kartik Sharma, De♏epak Hooda, Zubair Ali Khan, Mahipal Lomror(c), Bharat Sharma(w), Manav Suthar, Deepak Chahar, Rahul Chahar, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Rajesh Bishnoi Jr

Karnataka have won the toss and have op꧋ted to field against Tripura.

Playing XIs

Tripura: Mandeep Singh(c), ♐Samrat Sutradhar, Sridam Paul, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Srinivas Sharath(w), Manisankar Murasingh, Parvez Sultan, Ajay Sarkar, Abhijit K Sarkar, Rajat Dey, Saurabh Das

Karnataka: Mayank Agarawal(c), Smaran Ravichandran, Krishnan Shrijith🌜(w), Abhinav Manohar, LR Chethan, Manoj Bhandage, Shreyas Gopal, Shubhang Hegde, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Vasuki Koushik, Vidyadhar Patil

Manipur have won the toss and hav🔜e opted to field against Jharkhand.

Playing XIs

Manipur: Ulenyai Khwairakpam, Kangabam ⛄Priyojit Singh, Johnson Singh, Al Bashid Muhammed, Pheiroijam Jotin, Rex Rajkumar(c), Ahm💧ed Shah(w), Chingakham Bidash, Soubam Rohit Kiran Singh, L Kishan Singha, Bishworjit Konthoujam

Jharkhand: Utkarsh Singh, Ishan Kishan(w), Virat Singh(c), Robin Minz, Kumar Kushagra, Pankaj Kish🃏or Kumar, Anukul Roy, Bal Krishna, Ravi Ku⛎mar Yadav, Vikash Singh, Vivekanand Tiwari

Rajasthan set a 218-run target for Mizoram. Bharat Sharma and Deepak Hooda h🎀it half-centuries to take Rajasthan's score to 217 runs in 20 overs. Mohit Jangra was the most successful bowler from Mizoram as he took a couple of wickets. Now, Mizoram need 218 runs off 120 balls to win the match.

Jharkhand set a 244-run target for Manipur. Ishan Kishan came to open the innings and made 24 off 15 balls. Virat Singh made 64 off 32 balls and Kumar Kushagra added 37 runs off 21 balls. Bought by Mumbai Indians in the IPL 2𒁃025 mega auction on Day 1, Robin Minz made a quick 36 off 12 balls. Pankaj Kumar made 42 off 21 balls.

Tripura set a 186-run target for Karnataka. Mandeep Singh and Samrat Sutradhar scored half-centuries which helped them set a fighting total again🗹st a strong side like Karnatakaꦦ. Vijaykumar Vyshak and Shreyas Gopal shared one wicket each.

Ivory Coast men's national cricket team has added their name in the history books of cricket for an unwanted record. They were bowled out for just seven runs against Nigeria in an ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sub-Regio✃nal Africa Qualifier Group C game on Sunday in Lagos.

Batting first, Nigeria made 271 runs and boꦺwled out Ivory Coast for the lowest total in men's T20I format. They won the match by 264 runs which is the third highest margin in T20Is.

Goa have won the to༒🦹ss and have opted to field against Services.

Playing XIs

Services: Kunwa🐟r Pathak, Shubham Rohilla, Mohღit Ahlawat(c), Arun Kumar(w), Pulkit Narang, Mohit Rathee, Poonam Poonia, Gaurav Sharma, Vishal Gaur, Vineet Dhankhar, Rajat Paliwal

Goa: Ishaan Gadekar, Rohan Kadam, Krishnamurthy Siddharth(w), Suyash Prabhudessai, Darshan Misal, Deepraj Gaonkar(c), Mohit Redkar, Vikash Kanw🀅ar Singh, Arjun Tendulkar, Shubham Tari, Heramb Parab

Maharashtra have won the 🍰toss and 🐻have opted to field against Kerala.

Playing XIs

Maharashtra: Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Arshin Kulkarni, Rahul Tripathi, Dhanraj Shinde, Ram𒅌akrishna Ghosh, N𓆉ikhil Naik(w), Divyang Hinganekar, Azim Kazi, Satyajeet Bachhav, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki

Kerala: Sanju Samson(w/c),🍃 Rohan Kunnummal, Vishnu Vinod, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Salman Nizar, Sachin Baby, Abdul Basith, Akhil Scaria, Sijomon Joseph, Vinod Kumar, MD Nidheesh

Railways have won the♍ t💜oss and have opted to field against Odisha.

Playing XIs

Odisha: Swastik Samal, Gourav Choudhury, Sandeep Pattnaik, Govinda Poddar(c), Aasirwad Swain(w), ♓Abhishek Yadav, Debabrata Pradhan, Harshit Rathod, Rakesh Pattnaik, Pradeep Pradhan, Sambit S Baral

Railways: Pratham Singh, Vivek Singh, Samarth🅺 Vyas, Upendra Yadav(w/c), Ashutosh Sharma, Navneet Virk, Suraj Ahuja, Karn Sharma, Raj Choudhary, Susheel Kumar, Kunal Yadav

Vidarbha have won the toss🙈 and have opted to field against Chജandigarh.

Playing XIs

Vidarbha: Atharva Taide, Karun Nair,🌱 Mandar Mahale, Harsh Dubey, Parth Rekha🙈de, Jitesh Sharma(w/c), Shubham Dubey, Apoorv Wankhade, Darshan Nalkande, Yash Thakur, Dipesh Parwani

Chandigarh: Manan Vohra(c), Arjun Azad, Shivam Bhambri, Raj Bawa, Gaurav Puri, Bhagmender Lather, Pra🥃deep Yadav(w), Chiragvir Dhindsa, Jagjit Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Nishunk Birla

Dꩲelhi have won the toss and have opted to bat against Jammu a💎nd Kashmir in Mumbai.

Playing XIs

Jammu and Kashmir: Qamran I💞qbal, Shubham Khajuria, Vivrant Sharma, Abdul Samad, Paras Dogra(w/c), Abid Mushtaq, Auqib Nabi Dar, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Rasikh Dar Salam, Murugan Ashwin, Irfan ul Haq

Delhi: Priyansh Arya💧, Yash Dhull, Ayush Badoni(c), Himmat Singh, Anuj Rawat(w), Mayank Rawat, Harsh Tyagi, Simarjeet Singh, Suyash Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Prince Yadav

Baroda have won the to✅ss and have opted to field against Uttarakh💦and.

Playing XIs

Uttarakhand: Yuvraj Chaudhary, Avneesh Sudha, Ravikumar Samarth, Kunal Chandela, Swapnil Singh, Aditya Tare(w), Vijay Sharma, Himanshu Bish𝓀t, Akash Madhwal(c), Agrim Tiwari, Rajan Kumar

Baroda: Mitesh Patel, Ninad Ashvinkumar Rathva, Shivalik Sharma, Atit Sheth, ꧋Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya(c), Vishnu Solanki, Bhanu Pania(w)ꦫ, Mahesh Pithiya, Raj Limbani, Lukman Meriwala

Bihar have ൩won the toss and have opted to bat against Punjab.

Playing XIs

Bihar: Sakibul Gani(c), Ayush Loharuka, Raghuvendra Pratap Singh, Kumar Rajnish, Sharman Nigrodh(w), Himanshu Singh, Mayank Choud🌱hary, Bipin Saurabh, Nawaz Khan, Sakib Hꦉussain, Sachin Kumar

Punjab: Abhishek Sharma(c), Prabhsimran Singh(w), Anmolpreet Singh, Naman Dhir, Nehal Wadhera, Sanvir Singh, Ramandeep Sing🦩h, Mayank Markande, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh

Tripura set a 186-run targe🔜t for Karnataka in Indore thanks to captain Mandeep Singh's 66 and Samrat Sutradhar's 55 off 36 balls. In response, capt𒁃ain Mayank Agarwal and Smaran Ravichandran hit half-centuries to help Karnataka chase the target with five wickets and three balls to spare.

Bihar batted first and managed to score only 113 runs in 20 overs despite scoring 19 runs on the first over of Arshdeep Singh. Harpreet Brar took three wickets and Ramandeep Singh claimed two in the match. Punjab went on to chase down the target in the 10th over. Prabhsimran Singh (38 off 15 balls) and Abhishek Sharma (33 off 14 balls) gave a good start and the oꦚther teammates finished the work in 10th over.

Madhya Prade🅘sh have won ♚the toss and have opted to bat against Meghalaya.

Playing XIs

Madhya Pradesh: Arpit Gaud, Abhishek Pathak(w), Subhranshu Senapati, Rajat Patidar(c), Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Venkatesh Iyer, Arshad Khan, Kulwant Khejroliy🐠a, Kumar Kartikeya, Shivam Shukla, Rahul Batham

Meghalaya: Swara🐠jeet Das, Arpit Bhatewara(w), Jaskirat Singh, Larry Sangma, Anish Charak, Roshan Warbah, Wanlambok Nongkhlaw, Akash Choudhary(c), Hemant Phukan, Ram Gurung, Arien Sangma

Tamil Nadu have won the toss💫 and hav⛦e opted to bat against Sikkim.

Playing XIs

Sikkim: Nilesh Lamichaney, Parth Palawat, Ashish Thapa(w), Robin Limboo, Ankur Malik, Palzor Tamang(c), Anwesh Sharma, Tar𓄧un Sharma, Rosha𓃲n Kumar, Md Saptulla, Bhim Luitel

Tamil Nadu: Baba Indrajith, N Jagadeesan(w), Shahrukh Khan(c), Boopathi Kumar, Vijay Shankar, Rithik Easwaran, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, M Mohammed, Manimaran Siddharth, 🧸Sandeep Warrier, Varun Chakaravarthy

Haryana have won the toss and have o🌺pted to bat against Arunachal Pradesh.

Playing XIs

Arunachal Pradesh: Prince Yadav, Techi Doria, Kara Hakap, Abhishek Pujari(w), Nabam Te🎃mpol, Nabam Abo(c), Licha John, Yorjum Sera, Aryan Malik, Ramesh Rahul, Vivek Ranjan

Haryana: Ankit Kumar(c), Himanshu Rana, Rahul Tewatia, Rohit Parmod Sharma(w), Mohit Sharma, Dheeru Singh, Sumit Kumar, Harshal Patel, Anshul Kamboj, Nishant Sindhu, Yuzve🌼ndra Chahal

Innings Break Update:

Madhya Pradesh have posted a formidable total of 2💙22/5 in 20 overs. Tamil Nadu posted 218/6, and Sikkim are now chasing a challenging target. Meanwhile, Haryana's explosive 255/2 have set Arunachal Prades🤪h a massive target to chase.

Andhra have won the toss and have opted to field first.

Teams:

Andhra (Playing XI): Ricky Bhui(c), Ashwin Hebbar, Shaik Rasheed, Srikar Bharat(w), Vamsi Krishna, SDNV Prasad, KV Sasikanth, Tripurana Vijay, Vinay 🦂Kumar, S🔴atyanarayana Raju, Cheepurapalli Stephen

Nagaland (Playing XI): Chetan Bist(w), Dega Nischal, Hokaito Zhimomi, Rongsen Jonathan(c), Shamphri Terang, Chopise Hopongkyu, Jagadeesha Suchith, Joshua Ozukum𝕴, Khrievitso Kense, Hem Chetri, Dip Borah

Puducherry have won the toss and have opted to field

Teams:

Chhattisgarh (Playing XI): Aayush Pandey, Amandeep Khare(c), Shashank Chandrakar(w), Shashank Singh, Prateek Yadav, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Ravi Kiran, Shubham Agarwal, Sanjeet Desai, Sꦑourabh Majumdar, Gagandeep Singh

Puducherry (Playing XI): Akash Kargave, Ajay Rohera(w), Ankit Sharma, Vikneshwaran Marimuthu, Krishna Pandey, Arun Karthik, Mohamed Safꦑeequddin, Gaurav Yadav, Fabid Ahmed(c), Sidak Gurvinder Singh, Adil Ayub Tunda

Himachal Pradesh have won the toss and have opted to bat:

Himachal Pradesh 🐬(Playing XI): Prashant Chopra, Ankush Bains, Sumeet Verma, Ayush Jamwal(w), Ekant Sen, Rishi Dhawan(c), Akash Vasisht, Mayank Dagar, Divesh Sharma, Mukul Negi, Vaibhav Arora

Uttar Pradesh (Playing XI): Aryan J💛uyal(w), Swastik Chikara, Madhav Kaushik, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Sameer Rizvi, Shivam Mavi, Piyush Chawla, Bhuvneshwar Kumar(c), Vineet Panwar, Mohsin Khan

Saurashtra have won the toss and have opted to bat

Gujarat (Playing XI): Aarya Desai, Urvil Patel(w), Umang Kumar, Saurav Chauhan, Axar Patel(c), Hemang Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Ripal Patel, Chintan Gaja, Ar🅷zan Nagwaswalla, Tejas Patel

Saurashtra (Playing XI): Tarang Gohel, Harvik Desai(w), Prerak🅠 Mankad, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Sammar Gajjar, Jay Gohil, Chirag Jani, Jaydev Unadkat(c), Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Yuvraj Chudasama, Devang Karamta

Bengal have won the toss and have opted to field

Bengal (Playing XI): Abishek Porel(w), Karan Lal, Sudip Chatterjee, Sudip Kumar Gharami(c), Ritwik Chowdhury🦋, Shahbaz Ahmed, Writtick Chatterjee, Pradipta Pramanik, Mohammed Shami, Kanishk Seth, Ishan Porel

Hyderabad (Playing XI): Tanmay Agarwal, Gahlaut R🧸ahul Singh, Tilak Varma(c), Rahul Buddhi, Mickil Jaiswal, Aniketh Reddy, Prateek Reddy(w), Telukupalli Ravi Teja, Tanay Thyagarajan, Chama V Milind, Saranu Nishanth

• Chandigarh posted a total of 166/7 in 20 overs.

  Puducherry are curꦅrently at 31/0 after 3 overs in thei🔯r chase.

• Haryana was bowled out for 100 in 18.2 overs.

  UP are chas🎐ing the target and are at 32/3 after 6💛 overs.

• Saurashtra managed 196/4 in 20 overs.

  Gujarat are at 51/1 after 5 overs in their chase.

• Hyderabad posted 137 in 18.3 overs.

  Bengal are chasing thꦫe target and are at 94/1 after 12 overs.

Bengal thrashed Hyderabad by 8 wickets, chasing down a modest target of 118 runs. Asked to bat first, Hyderabad were bowled out for 137 in 18.3 overs thanks to Mohammad Shami who picked three wickets. Bengal started the chase strongly, scoring 30 runs in 5 overs with the openers Karan Lal and Ab🎶ishek Porel finding rhythm in their partnership.

By the 12-over mark, Bengal had advanced to 94/1. With just 18 runs required from 24 balls, Bengal reached 120/2 in 16 overs, comfortably completing the chase with Sudip Kumar Gharami and Shahbaz Ahmed's unbeaten 23 and 20 res൲pectively.

Bengal defeated Saurashtra by 5 wickets!

B꧂atting first, Saurashtra posted a competitive 196/4 in their 20 ove♊rs, powered by Vishvaraj Jadeja's unbeaten 52 off just 23 balls. However, Gujarat chased down the target in 19.2 overs, reaching 199/5, thanks to impressive half-centuries from Hemang Patel and Saurav Chauhan.

Uttar Pradesh won by 7 wickets against Himachal Pradesh.

Winning the toss and choosing to bat first, Himachal Pradesh quickly regretted their decision as they were bowled♒ out for just 100 in 18.2 overs, courtesy of a brilliant four-wicket haul by Piyush Chawla. Uttar Pradesh made light work of the chase, reaching 104/3 in just 13.3 overs, powered by a blistering 24-ball 45 from Rinku Singh.

Puducherry defeated Himachal Pradesh by 6 wkts

Winning th🌱e toss and opting to field first proved to be a masterstroke for Puducherry. They restricted Chandigarh to 166/7 in their 20 overs. Puducherry then chased down the target with ease, posting 168/4 in 19.2 overs, thanks to a brilliant half-century by Arun Karthik.