SMAT 2025-26 | Maharashtra’s Arshin and Shaw ace the chase against Hyderabad

Prithvi Shaw batting against Hyderabad in Kolkata. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI Arshin Kulkarni and Prithvi Shaw scored stroke-filled half-centuries as Maharashtra bounced back to beat Hyderabad by eight wickets in a Group-B match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament at the Jadavpur University ground here on Friday. Put in to bat on a … Read more

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy | Milind and Rahul star in Hyderabad’s five-wkt. win over M.P.

Skipper C.V. Milind set up Hyderabad’s win over Madhya Pradesh with a three-wicket haul in their Syed Mustaq Ali Trophy league match in Kolkata on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI Rahul Buddhi’s clinical half-century and captain C.V. Milind’s three-wicket haul guided Hyderabad to a five-wicket win over Madhya Pradesh in its opening Elite Group-B match of … Read more

SMAT – The Hindu

Sports Bureau The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA), through a press release on Wednesday, announced that the State Senior Selection Committee has included Team India batter Sai Sudharsan in the Tamil Nadu State senior squad to participate in the ongoing Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) T20 matches being held at Ahmedabad. Published – November 26, … Read more

Sunil Gavaskar comes in defence of Gautam Gambhir, says coach can only prepare team but players have to deliver

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has come out in defence of the embattled Gautam Gambhir saying the head coach can only prepare the team and it is the players who have to deliver on the field | Photo Credit: PTI Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has come out in defence of the embattled Gautam Gambhir, … Read more

Jemimah Rodrigues to miss remaining WBBL season, to support Smriti Mandhana

File photo of Jemimah Rodrigues and Smriti Mandhana. | Photo Credit: PTI India’s Women’s World Cup-winning hero Jemimah Rodrigues will miss the remaining WBBL season in Australia after she decided to stay back in India to support her national team-mate Smriti Mandhana whose wedding got postponed. Jemimah had returned a few days back to attend … Read more

Watching the Indian wheels come off is chastening

The first cracks in a magnificent edifice constructed with passion and care and skill and ruthless efficiency by a couple of generations of players over a period of a dozen years started to surface some 12 and a half months back. By November 2025, those cracks mushroomed into gaping holes, bringing down the structure completely … Read more

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy | I realised that I should bowl slower and that helped, says Utkarsh

Utkarsh. | Photo Credit: R.V. MOORTHY Jharkhand all-rounder Utkarsh Singh, who bagged his maiden Player-of-the-Match award in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy for his all-round winning effort (two for 30, and 24) in a low-scoring clash against Delhi at the Narendra Modi Stadium here on Wednesday, said he had to recalibrate his pace to suit … Read more