Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2019-20: Round 3 - Review

After some stoppages in the first couple of rounds, finally, there was some respite shown by the rain gods towards the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on Monday. Most of the games played on the day were completed without any interventions and we ended up witnessing some fabulous encounters, including a couple of great derbies.

One of the derbies happened between Punjab and Chandigarh, a game that saw the former take full control right from the outset. Shivam Bhambri’s 41 helped Chandigarh post 131 runs batting first. Mayank Markande’s 3/26 and Abhishek Sharma’s explosive knock at the top helped Punjab win the game comfortably by 7 wickets and 21 balls remaining.

The other derby happened between Saurashtra and Gujarat, which surprisingly turned out to be one-sided. Dharmendra Sinh Jadeja’s outrageous fifty in the first innings helped Saurashtra score 214 runs batting first. Despite a good knock from Axar Patel, there was no good contribution from the other end, which saw Gujarat post just 154 runs in reply.

Mumbai’s brilliant run in the tournament continued as they smashed Madhya Pradesh apart in a one-sided contest. Parth Sahani’s 47 helped MP put up a decent 159 runs on the board batting first, but Mumbai made a mockery of it in the run chase. Jay Gokul Bista and Aditya Tare scored fifties as they chased the total down in just 15.5 overs.

Brief scores

Group A

Bihar vs Services

Services: 184/7 in 20 overs (Ravi Chauhan 71; Sarfaraz Ashraf 3/35)

Bihar: 90/9 in 20 overs (Varun Chaudhary 2/15)

Services won by 94 runs

Baroda vs Uttarakhand

Baroda: 201/4 in 20 overs (Deepak Hooda 52, Swapnil Singh 47; Dikshanshu 2/33)

Uttarakhand: 168 all out in 19.2 overs (Saurabh Rawat 70, Karn Veer Kaushal 38; Swapnil Singh 3/25)

Baroda won by 33 runs

Andhra Pradesh vs Karnataka

Andhra Pradesh: 184/5 in 20 overs (Prashanth Kumar 79, Ashwin Hebbar 61; V Koushik 3/35)

Karnataka: 189/5 in 18.5 overs (Devdutt Padikkal 122*; Cheepurapalli Stephen 2/39)

Karnataka won by 5 wickets

Group B

Kerala vs Tripura

Kerala: 191/7 in 20 overs (Sachin Baby 58; Manisankar Murasingh 2/42)

Tripura: 177/8 in 20 overs (Milind Kumar 54; Jalaj Saxena 4/26)

Kerala won by 14 runs

Vidarbha vs Manipur

Vidarbha: 150/6 in 20 overs (Jitesh Sharma 73; Ajay Singh 1/19)

Manipur: 80/9 in 20 overs (Yash Thakur 4/5)

Vidarbha won by 70 runs

Tamil Nadu vs Uttar Pradesh

Tamil Nadu: 168/7 in 20 overs (Dinesh Karthik 61, Murali Vijay 51; Mohsin Khan 2/13)

Uttar Pradesh: 174/5 in 19.5 overs (Upendra Yadav 70)

Uttar Pradesh won by 5 wickets

Group C

Himachal Pradesh vs Hyderabad

Himachal Pradesh: 183/5 in 20 overs (Ekant Sen 38; Mohammed Siraj 2/31)

Hyderabad: 99 all out in 19 overs (Rishi Dhawan 3/18)

Himachal Pradesh won by 84 runs

Chhattisgarh vs Railways

Chhattisgarh: 190/6 in 20 overs (Shashank Chandrekar 82; Karthik Raman 3/33)

Railways: 123 all out in 20 overs (Shashank Singh 3/22)

Chhattisgarh won by 67 runs

Punjab vs Chandigarh

Chandigarh: 131/7 in 20 overs (Shivam Bhambri 41; Mayank Markande 3/26)

Punjab: 132/3 in 16.3 overs (Abhishek Sharma 60; Gurinder Singh 2/34)

Punjab won by 7 wickets

Arunachal Pradesh vs Maharashtra

Arunachal Pradesh: 148/6 in 20 overs (Uvais Ahmed 70; Mukesh Choudhary 3/32)

Maharashtra: 154/2 in 14.2 overs (Ruturaj Gaikwad 81)

Maharashtra won by 8 wickets

Group D

Madhya Pradesh vs Mumbai

Madhya Pradesh: 159/5 in 20 overs (Parth Sahani 47)

Mumbai: 165/1 in 15.5 overs (Aditya Tare 74, Jay Gokul Bista 64)

Mumbai won by 9 wickets

Assam vs Haryana

Assam: 158/8 in 20 overs (Riyan Parag 58; Amit Mishra 2/23)

Haryana: 159/7 in 19.4 overs (Harshal Patel 62)

Haryana won by 3 wickets

Bengal vs Meghalaya

Bengal: 207/4 in 20 overs (Abhimanyu Easwaran 61, Manoj Tiwary 45)

Meghalaya: 153/4 in 20 overs (Sanjay Yadav 45; Ishan Porel 2/22)

Bengal won by 54 runs

Mizoram vs Puducherry

Puducherry: 155/7 in 20 overs (Subramanian Anand 42; Sumit Lamba 3/25)

Mizoram: 124/4 in 20 overs (Taruwar Kohli 76; Ashist 2/25)

Puducherry won by 31 runs

Group E

Gujarat vs Saurashtra

Saurashtra: 214/7 in 20 overs (DA Jadeja 59, Samarth Vyas 55)

Gujarat: 157/8 in 20 overs (Axar Patel 70; Jaydev Unadkat 3/32)

Saurashtra won by 57 runs

Nagaland vs Delhi

Nagaland: 75/9 in 20 overs (Pawan Negi 3/11)

Delhi: 78/2 in 12.3 overs (Dhruv Shorey 27)

Delhi won by 8 wickets

Odisha vs Sikkim

Sikkim: 121/4 in 20 overs (Yashpal Singh 63)

Odisha: 125/3 in 17.1 overs (Subhranshu Senapati 44, Biplab Samantray 30)

Odisha won by 7 wickets

Jharkhand vs Jammu & Kashmir

Jharkhand: 107 all out in 19.4 overs (Virat Singh 44; Umar Nazir 5/17)

JK: 100 all out in 19.5 overs (Shubham Kajuria 38; Rahul Shukla 4/10)

Jharkhand won by 7 runs