Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023-24: Full schedule, teams, squads, date, venues

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023-24: Here’s a look at the full match schedule, venues, time and teams featuring in the SMAT 2023-24 from October 16 to November 6.

Defending SMAT champion Mumbai is placed in Elite Group A. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI

The India senior men’s 2023/24 domestic season will resume with the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 competition.

The tournament starts on October 16 with several India and IPL stars returning to action for their respective state teams. The final will be held on November 6 in Mohali.

In the 2022-23 edition, Mumbai won its first title after beating Himachal Pradesh by three wickets in the final.

Here are all the details you need to know of the upcoming season.

SMAT 2023-24 format and groups

The tournament will feature 38 teams across five different Elite Groups - eight teams each in Groups A, B and C and seven in Groups E and F. It will be played in five cities - Jaipur, Mumbai, Ranchi, Mohali and Dehradun - with all the knockout matches set to be played in Mohali.

Elite A (Jaipur): Haryana, Mumbai, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Hyderabad, Meghalaya, Baroda, J&K

Elite B (Mumbai): Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Services, Sikkim, Assam, Odisha, Bihar, Chandigarh

Elite C (Ranchi): Punjab, Saurashtra, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra, Goa, Manipur, Railways

Elite D (Mohali): Uttarakhand, Vidarbha, Bengal, Maharashtra, Pondicherry, Rajasthan

Elite E (Dehradun): Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023-24 squads

Delhi: Yash Dhull (c), Priyansh Arya, Anuj Rawat(wk), Himmat Singh(vc), Ayush Badoni, Kshitiz Sharma, Dev Lakra, Ishant Sharma, Navdeep Sani, Harshit Rana, Pranshu Vijayran, Lalit Yadav, Shivank Vashisth, Hrithik Shokeen, Suyash Sharma, Lakshay Thareja(wk), Mayank Yadav, Vaibhav Sharma, Jonty Sindhu.

J&K: Shubham Khajuria (C), Qamran Iqbal, Vivrant Sharma, Shubham Pundir, Abdul Samad, Henan Malik, Abid Mushtaq, Auqib Nabi, Fazil Rashid, Sahil Lotra, Umar Nazir, Lone Nasir, Rasikh Salam, Yudhvir Singh and Umran Malik.

Karnataka: Mayank Agarwal (c), Devdutt Padikkal, LR Chethan, Manish Pandey (vice-captain), Abhinav Manohar, Shubhang Hegde, Sharath BR (WK), K Gowtham, Prasidh Krishna, Vidwath Kaverappa, V Koushik, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Manoj Bhandage, Pravid Dubey, Shrijith KL (WK), R Samarth.

Mumbai: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Shams Mulani (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sarfaraz Khan, Shivam Dube, Prasad Pawar, Hardik Tamore, Tanush Kotian, Atharva Ankolekar, Tushar Deshpande, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohit Awasthi, Royston Dias, Ajit Yadav, Sairaj Patil.

Meghalaya: Riboklang Hynniewta, Sylvester Mylliempdah, Arien Bonchang Sangma, Chengkam Sangma, Junjun M Sangma, Mewada Shylla, Sanvert Kurkalang, Kilco R Marak, Lerry G Sangma, Ram Gurung, Anish Charak, Akash K Choudhary, Amiangshu Sen, Rajesh Bishnoi, Nahul Verma.

Tamil Nadu: Washington Sundar (c), B Sai Sudharsan (vc), N Jagadeesan, Vijay Shankar, C Hari Nishaanth, M Shahrukh Khan, G Ajitesh, B Aparajith, R Sanjay Yadav, M Mohammed, R Sai Kishore, CV Varun, T Natarajan, Kuldeep Rampal Sen and Sandeep Warrier

Hyderabad: Tilak Varma (c), CV Milind (vc), Tanmay Agarwal, Rahul Singh, Rohit Rayudu, Rahul Buddi, Chandan Sahani, Rahul Radesh, Bhavesh Seth, T Ravi Teja, Rakshan Readdi, E Sanketh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Aniket Reddy, Shaunak Kulkarni, Aman Rao

Maharashtra: Kedar Jadhav (c), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Arshin Kulkarni, Azim Kazi, Siddharth Mhatre, Ankeet Bawrne, Mandar Bhandari, Dhanraj Shinde, Prashant Solanki, Vicky Ostwal, Pradeep Dadhe, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Vijay Pawale, Nikhil Naik, Satyajeet Bachhav, Rushab Rathod.

Odisha: Govinda Poddar (c), Sandeep Pattanaik, Shantanu Mishra, Rajesh Dhupar, Subhranshu Senapati, Abhishek Yadav, Swastik Samal, Prabin Luha, Kartik Biswal, Rakesh Pattnaik, Soubhagya Rout, Prayash Singh, Debabrata Pradhan, Harshit Rathod, Sunil Roul, Tarani Sa.

Assam: Riyan Parag (c), Pallav Kumar Das, Pradyun Saikia, Denis Das, Sib Sankar Roy, Bishal Roy Jr., Rishav Das, Akash Sengupta, Mukhtar Hussain, Mrinmoy Dutta, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Erik Roy, Avinav Choudhury, Sourav Dey, Kunal Sarma, Sunil Lachit.

Uttar Pradesh: Karan Sharma (c), Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Madhav Kaushik, Yash Dayal, Sameer Rizvi, Swastik Chikara, Abhishek Goswami, Aaradhya Yadav, Dhruv Jurel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohsin Khan, Shiva Singh, Prince Yadav, Jasmer Dhankar, Prashant Veer, Kartik Tyagi, Atal Bihari Rai.

Andhra: KS Bharat (c), Ricky Bhui, Hanuma Vihari, Ashwin Hebbar, Shaik Rasheed, Karan Shinde, C Stephen, Yarra Prithviraj, Hansh Shankar Reddy, A Lalith Mohan, G Manish, T Vijay, Y Sandeep, M Hemanth Reddy, K Sai Teja, P Tapaswi, M Dheeraj Kumar.

Pondicherry: Rohit D (c), Paras Dogra, KB Arun Karthick, Gaurav Yadav, Akash Anand Kargave, Yash Jadhav, Parameeswaran S, Vikneshwaran Marimuthu, Karthikeyan J, Fabid Ahmed, Krishna Pandey, Barat Bhushan Sharma, Sagar Udeshi, Sidak Singh, Aravindaraj A, Bhupender Chauhan.

Kerala: Sanju Samson (c), Rohan Kunnummal (vc), Jalaj Saxena, Shreyas Gopal, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Sachin Baby, Vishnu Vinod, Abdul Bazith, Sijomon Joseph, Vaishak Chandran, Basil Thampi, KM Asif, Vinod Kumar, Manu Krishnan, Varun Nayanar, Ajnas M, Midhun PK, Salman Nizar.

Goa: Ishan Gadekar, Rahul Tripathi, KV Siddharth, Suyash Prabhudessai, Darshan Misal (c), Deepraj Gaonkar, Tunish Sawkar, Mohit Redkar, Arjun Tendulkar, Lakshay Garg, Shubham Tari, Vikas Singh, Kashyap Bakhle, Rajshekar Harikant, Snehal Kauthankar, Felix Alemao.

Vidarbha: Atharva Taide (c), Jitesh Sharma (vc), Akshay Wadkar (wk), Dhruv Shorey, Karun Nair, Shubam Dubey, Nayan Chavan, Aditya Sarvate, Akshay Karnewar, Darshan Nalkande, Mandar Mahale, Lalit Yadav, Saurabh Dubey, Harsh Dubey, Dipesh Parwani.