# 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group A

2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is the seventh season of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, a Twenty20 cricket tournament in India. It is contested by 27 domestic cricket teams of India. Group A consisted of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Hyderabad, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Vidarbha.

## Round 1

* 2 January 2016 Scorecard
| Bengal 185/4 (20 overs) | v | Hyderabad 124 (16.2 overs) |
* Bengal won by 61 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* Pramod Chandila (Bengal); Jaweed Ali, Mohammed Siraj and Kolla Sumanth (Hyderabad) all made their T20 debuts.
* 2 January 2016 Scorecard
| Gujarat 151/6 (20 overs) | v | Himachal Pradesh 152/5 (19.3 overs) |
* Himachal Pradesh won by 5 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* 2 January 2016 Scorecard
| Haryana 113 (19.1 overs) | v | Tamil Nadu 116/1 (16 overs) |
* Tamil Nadu won by 9 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* Rahul Dagar, Mohit Hooda, Rohit Sharma (Haryana); Murugan Ashwin and Jagatheesan Kousik (Tamil Nadu) all made their T20 debuts.

## Round 2

* 3 January 2016 Scorecard
| Tamil Nadu 151/8 (20 overs) | v | Bengal 82 (15.5 overs) |
* Tamil Nadu won by 69 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* 3 January 2016 Scorecard
| Gujarat 174/7 (20 overs) | v | Vidarbha 114 (18.4 overs) |
* Gujarat won by 60 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* Rajneesh Gurbani and Akshay Karnewar (Vidarbha) both made their T20 debuts.
* 3 January 2016 Scorecard
| Hyderabad 140/9 (20 overs) | v | Himachal Pradesh 126/9 (20 overs) |
* Hyderabad won by 14 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

## Round 3

* 4 January 2016 Scorecard
| Hyderabad 131/7 (20 overs) | v | Gujarat 134/7 (19.3 overs) |
* Gujarat won by 3 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* Vishal Sharma (Hyderabad) made his T20 debut.
* 4 January 2016 Scorecard
| Haryana 136/8 (20 overs) | v | Vidarbha 140/2 (19.3 overs) |
* Vidarbha won by 8 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* 4 January 2016 Scorecard
| Bengal 154/6 (20 overs) | v | Himachal Pradesh 152/3 (20 overs) |
* Bengal won by 2 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* Anurag Tiwari (Bengal) made his T20 debut.

## Round 4

* 6 January 2016 Scorecard
| Bengal 101 (19.1 overs) | v | Gujarat 104/2 (11.5 overs) |
* Gujarat won by 8 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* Mukesh Kumar (Bengal) and Raxlee Taylor (Gujarat) both made their T20 debuts.
* 6 January 2016 Scorecard
| Hyderabad 173/8 (20 overs) | v | Haryana 138/7 (20 overs) |
* Hyderabad won by 35 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* Chaitanya Bishnoi (Haryana) and Annabathula Akash (Hyderabad) both made their T20 debuts.
* 6 January 2016 Scorecard
| Tamil Nadu 150/8 (20 overs) | v | Vidarbha 154/3 (18.3 overs) |
* Vidarbha won by 7 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

## Round 5

* 7 January 2016 Scorecard
| Bengal 147/5 (20 overs) | v | Vidarbha 151/6 (19.2 overs) |
* Vidarbha won by 4 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* 7 January 2016 Scorecard
| Gujarat 105 (19.4 overs) | v | Tamil Nadu 111/1 (12.5 overs) |
* Tamil Nadu won by 9 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* 7 January 2016 Scorecard
| Haryana 122/9 (20 overs) | v | Himachal Pradesh 123/8 (19.2 overs) |
* Himachal Pradesh won by 2 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* Poonish Mehta (Haryana) made his T20 debut.

## Round 6

* 9 January 2016 Scorecard
| Tamil Nadu 168/6 (20 overs) | v | Himachal Pradesh 173/4 (16.5 overs) |
* Himachal Pradesh won by 6 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* Bharath Shankar (Tamil Nadu) made his T20 debut.
* 9 January 2016 Scorecard
| Hyderabad 139/7 (20 overs) | v | Vidarbha 142/5 (20 overs) |
* Vidarbha won by 5 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* 9 January 2016 Scorecard
| Haryana 127/3 (20 overs) | v | Bengal 110/8 (20 overs) |
* Haryana won by 17 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

## Round 7

* 10 January 2016 Scorecard
| Haryana 95 (20 overs) | v | Gujarat 99/1 (6.4 overs) |
* Gujarat won by 9 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* Kuldeep Ghadvi (Gujarat) and Shamsher Yadav (Haryana) both made their T20 debuts.
* 10 January 2016 Scorecard
| Hyderabad 140/8 (20 overs) | v | Tamil Nadu 141/6 (18.4 overs) |
* Tamil Nadu won by 4 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* Himalay Agarwal, Mehdi Hassan (Hyderabad) and Abhishek Tanwar (Tamil Nadu) all made their T20 debuts.
* 10 January 2016 Scorecard
| Vidarbha 183/6 (20 overs) | v | Himachal Pradesh 156 (19.5 overs) |
* Vidarbha won by 27 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur