# 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

The 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy was the eighth edition of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, an annual Twenty20 tournament in India. Played from 2 to 20 January 2016, it was contested by all 27 Ranji Trophy teams. Uttar Pradesh won the championship, claiming their first title.

## Teams

The teams were divided into 4 groups:
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
| Gujarat Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Bengal Tamil Nadu Haryana Vidarbha (Host) | Punjab Rajasthan Jharkhand Saurashtra Tripura Kerala (Host) Jammu & Kashmir | Madhya Pradesh Andhra Delhi Railways Baroda (Host) Assam Goa | Mumbai Odisha (Host) Karnataka Services Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra |

## Group stage
### Group A
#### Points table

| Team | Pld | W | L | Tie | A | Pts | NRR |
| Vidarbha | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0.017 |
| Gujarat | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1.559 |
| Tamil Nadu | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1.136 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -0.025 |
| Hyderabad | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -0.270 |
| Bengal | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -0.786 |
| Haryana | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -1.406 |

### Group B
#### Points table

| Team | Pld | W | L | Tie | A | Pts | NRR |
| Kerala | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0.873 |
| Jharkhand | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0.799 |
| Saurashtra | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1.050 |
| Punjab | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.528 |
| Rajasthan | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.034 |
| Tripura | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -1.079 |
| Jammu & Kashmir | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2.235 |

### Group C
#### Points table

| Team | Pld | W | L | Tie | A | Pts | NRR |
| Delhi | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | +1.936 |
| Baroda | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1.693 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0.109 |
| Railways | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -0.059 |
| Assam | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -1.058 |
| Goa | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -1.060 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -1.485 |

### Group D
#### Points table

| Team | Pld | W | L | Tie | A | Pts | NRR |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1.236 |
| Mumbai | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.621 |
| Maharashtra | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.152 |
| Karnataka | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | -0.210 |
| Services | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -0.898 |
| Odisha | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -0.819 |

## Super League
### Super League A
#### Points table

| Team | Pld | W | L | Tie | A | Pts | NRR |
| Baroda | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.299 |
| Mumbai | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.196 |
| Kerala | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.172 |
| Vidarbha | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -0.657 |

#### Matches

* 15 January 2016 Scorecard
| Vidarbha 162/5 (20 overs) | v | Baroda 168/4 (19 overs) |
| Ganesh Satish 54 (31) Irfan Pathan 1/32 (4 overs) | | Hardik Pandya 86 (46) Ravi Jangid 2/36 (3 overs) |
* Baroda won by 6 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Nand Kishore (Ind) Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind)
* Baroda won the toss and elected the field.
* 15 January 2016 Scorecard
| Kerala 160/7 (20 overs) | v | Mumbai 164/4 (19.1 vers) |
| Rohan Prem 69 (45) Sagar Trivedi 3/34 (4 overs) | | Aditya Tare 71 (46) Unnikrishnan Manukrishnan 2/36 (4 overs) |
* Mumbai won by 6 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan (Ind) and Subrat Das (Ind)
* Mumbai won the toss and elected to field.
* 16 January 2016 Scorecard
| Baroda 160/6 (20 overs) | v | Kerala 164/6 (19.4 overs) |
| Irfan Pathan 35* (18) Padmanabhan Prasanth 2/15 (4 overs) | | Raiphi Gomez 47* (21) Irfan Pathan 2/14 (4 overs) |
* Kerala won by 4 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Subrat Das
* Kerala won the toss and elected to field.
* 16 January 2016 Scorecard
| Vidarbha 181/4 (20 overs) | v | Mumbai 182/5 (18.5 overs) |
| Jitesh Sharma 56 (30) Sagar Trivedi 2/44 (4 overs) | | Shreyas Iyer 86 (51) Ravikumar Thakur 2/32 (3.5 overs) |
* Mumbai won by 5 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Nand Kishore and Krishnamachari Srinivasan
* Mumbai won the toss and elected to field.
* 18 January 2016 Scorecard
| Vidarbha 105 (19.3 overs) | v | Kerala 109/8 (18.4 overs) |
| Urvesh Patel 28 (25) Nizar Niyas 3/14 (4 overs) | | Rohan Prem 34 (34) Akshay Wakhare 3/26 (4 overs) |
* Kerala won by 2 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan (Ind) and Subrat Das (Ind)
* Kerala won the toss and elected to field.
* 18 January 2016 Scorecard
| Mumbai 151/5 (20 overs) | v | Baroda 153/9 (19 overs) |
| Suryakumar Yadav 57 (36) Bhargav Bhatt 2/25 (4 overs) | | Deepak Hooda 53 (35) Pravin Tambe 3/26 (4 overs) |
* Baroda won by 1 wicket Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Nand Kishore and Krishnamachari Srinivasan
* Baroda won the toss and elected to field.
* Shivam Dube (Mumbai) made his T20 debut.

### Super League B
#### Points table

| Team | Pld | W | L | Tie | A | Pts | NRR |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.688 |
| Gujarat | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +1.180 |
| Delhi | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.059 |
| Jharkhand | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1.714 |

#### Matches

* 15 January 2016 Scorecard
| Delhi 170/5 (20 overs) | v | Gujarat 171/2 (17.3 overs) |
| Unmukt Chand 103 (58) RP Singh 1/29 (4 overs) | | Priyank Kirit Panchal 68* (45) Parvinder Awana 1/23 (3 overs) |
* Gujarat won by 8 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Belur Ravi (Ind) and Chirra Ravikanthreddy (Ind)
* Gujarat won the toss and elected to field.
* 15 January 2016 Scorecard
| Jharkhand 133/7 (20 overs) | v | Uttar Pradesh 134/1 (16.5 overs) |
| Shasheem Rathour 40 (43) Amit Mishra 2/14 (4 overs) | | Samarth Singh 64 (49) Kaushal Singh 1/18 (1.5 overs) |
* Uttar Pradesh won by 9 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Anil Dandekar (Ind) and Rajesh Deshpande (Ind)
* Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
* 16 January 2016 Scorecard
| Gujarat 165/6 (20 overs) | v | Uttar Pradesh 167/3 (19 overs) |
| Manpreet Juneja 54 (40) Praveen Kumar 2/32 (4 overs) | | Samarth Singh 65* (47) Rush Kalaria 2/19 (3 overs) |
* Uttar Pradesh won by 7 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Belur Ravi and Chirra Ravikanthreddy
* Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
* 16 January 2016 Scorecard
| Jharkhand 134/7 (20 overs) | v | Delhi 138/5 (18 overs) |
| Virat Singh 45 (44) Parvinder Awana 3/28 (4 overs) | | Nitish Rana 60* (44) Varun Aaron 3/27 (4 overs) |
* Delhi won by 5 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Rajesh Deshpande
* Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
* 18 January 2016 Scorecard
| Jharkhand 142/6 (20 overs) | v | Gujarat 146/4 (14.1 overs) |
| Ishank Jaggi 39 (24) Rush Kalaria 2/34 (4 overs) | | Priyank Kirit Panchal 35 (28) Kaushal Singh 2/21 (2 overs) |
* Gujarat won by 6 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Belur Ravi (Ind) and Chirra Ravikanthreddy (Ind)
* Gujarat won the toss and elected to field.
* Santosh Shinde (Gujarat) made his T20 debut.
* 18 January 2016 Scorecard
| Delhi 158/6 (20 overs) | v | Uttar Pradesh 159/7 (19.4 overs) |
| Unmukt Chand 48 (35) Amit Mishra 2/25 (4 overs) | | Eklavya Dwivedi 49* (35) Navdeep Saini 2/24 (4 overs) |
* Uttar Pradesh won by 3 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Rajesh Deshpande
* Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.

## Final

Source:
* 20 January 2016 18:30 Local (D/N) Scorecard
| Uttar Pradesh 163/7 (20 overs) | v | Baroda 125/7 (20 overs) |
| Prashant Gupta 49 (41) Bhargav Bhatt 2/13 (2 overs) | | Soaeb Tai 26* (23) Ankit Rajpoot 3/30 (4 overs) |
* Uttar Pradesh won by 38 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) and Nand Kishore (Ind) Player of the match: Suresh Raina (Uttar Pradesh)
* Baroda won the toss and elected to field.
* Uttar Pradesh remained unbeaten during the tournament.

## Statistics
### Batting

Source: Cricinfo
| Player | Team | Matches | Runs | Ave. | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| Hardik Pandya | Baroda | 10 | 377 | 53.85 | 130.90 | 86* | 0 | 2 |
| Rohan Prem | Kerala | 9 | 356 | 44.50 | 117.10 | 69 | 0 | 3 |
| Jitesh Sharma | Vidarbha | 9 | 343 | 38.11 | 143.51 | 106 | 1 | 2 |
| Parthiv Patel | Gujarat | 9 | 337 | 42.12 | 162.80 | 70 | 0 | 4 |
| Prashant Gupta | Uttar Pradesh | 9 | 317 | 39.62 | 118.72 | 53 | 0 | 1 |

### Bowling

Source: Cricinfo
| Player | Team | Matches | Wickets | Econ. | Ave. | BBI | 4WI | 5WI |
| Irfan Pathan | Baroda | 10 | 17 | 7.30 | 15.76 | 5/13 | 1 | 1 |
| Piyush Chawla | Uttar Pradesh | 9 | 15 | 5.94 | 13.86 | 4/28 | 1 | 0 |
| Dhawal Kulkarni | Mumbai | 8 | 15 | 6.72 | 14.20 | 3/35 | 0 | 0 |
| CV Stephen | Andhra | 6 | 14 | 5.80 | 8.50 | 5/52 | 2 | 1 |
| Nathu Singh | Rajasthan | 6 | 14 | 5.00 | 8.57 | 4/13 | 2 | 0 |