India’s premier domestic T20 tournament is here. The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) will be played from November 26 to December 18 in what will be the 18th edition of the tournament. Just like the Ranji Trophy, the tournament has been divided into Elite and Plate group teams, with 32 being the number of Elite teams and the rest, 6, battling in the Plate Group.
The Elite competition has been divided into four groups, with defending champions Mumbai being in Group A. Fascinatingly, a lot of star power will be on display this season, with Suryakumar Yadav, India’s T20I captain, set for action. Sanju Samson will lead Kerala, while Hardik Pandya is also expected to come back from his quadriceps injury. The likes of Ishan Kishan, Shivam Dube, Mohammed Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Ruturaj Gaikwad and other players who won’t be part of IND vs SA ODIs will be featuring in the tournament.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Groups
SMAT Elite Group A
- Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Mumbai, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Vidarbha, Railways, Assam
SMAT Elite Group B
- Hyderabad, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir
SMAT Elite Group C
- Haryana, Baroda, Gujarat, Pondicherry, Services, Punjab, Bengal
SMAT Elite Group D
- Saurashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Tripura, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Karnataka
SMAT Plate Group
- Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur
The top-two finishing teams from Elite Groups will enter the quarter-finals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT). While the top two teams on the Plate group points table will play the final.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) 2025 squads
Kerala: Sanju Samson (C), Ahammed Imran, Rohan Kunnummal, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Salman Nizar, Vishnu Vinod, Abdul Basith, Ankit Sharma, KM Asif, MD Nidheesh, Vignesh Puthur, Sibin Gireesh, Krishna Devan, Krishna Prasad, Saly Samson, Akhil Scaria, Sharafuddeen
Andhra Pradesh: Ricky Bhui (wk), Ashwin Hebbar, Pyla Avinash, Srikar Bharat, Shaik Rasheed, Saurabh Kumar, Prithvi Raj, Satyanarayana Raju, KV Sasikanth, Tripurana Vijay, Bailapudi Yeswanth, Sai Rahul, Panduranga Raju, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Munish Varma
Mumbai: Shardul Thakur (capt), Ajinkya Rahane, Ayush Mhatre, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Siddhesh Lad, Sarfaraz Khan, Shivam Dube, Sairaj Patil, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Atharva Ankolekar, Tanush Kotian, Shams Mulani, Tushar Deshpande, Irfan Umair and Hardik Tamore (wk)
Chhattisgarh: Ajay Mandal, Aditya Sarwate, Shashank Singh, Amandeep Khare (C), Shubham Agarwal, Amit Kumar Yadav, Ayush Pandey, Shashank Chandrakar, Gagandeep Singh, Sanidhya Hurkat, Sourabh Majumdar, Mayank Verma, Mayank Yadav, Anand Rao, Ravi Kiran, Prateek Yadav
Odisha: Subhranshu Senapati, Biplab Samantray (C), Govinda Poddar, Aditya Rout, Anil Parida, Badal Biswal, Sambit Baral, Gaurav Choudhary, Sourav Gouda, Sarbeswar Mohanty, Pappu Roy, Sandeep Pattnaik, Prayash Singh, Rajesh Mohanty, Swastik Samal, Subham Satrujit, Aashirwad Swain
Vidarbha: Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Dhruv Shorey, Akshay Wadkar, Harsh Dubey (C), Nachiket Bhute, Parth Rekhade, Atharva Taide, Yash Thakur, Praful Hinge, Darshan Nalkande, Umesh Yadav, Varun Bisht, Adhyayan Daga, Shivam Deshmukh, Yash Kadam, Dipesh Parwani
Assam: Riyan Parag (C), Sibsankar Roy, Abdul Ajij Kuraishi, Avinov Choudhury, Denish Das, Mrinmoy Dutta, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Saahil Jain, Jitumoni Kalita, Bhargab Lahkar, Mukhtar Hussain, Nibir Deka, Pradyun Saikia, Rhot Sen, Akash Sengupta
Railways: Suraj Ahuja, Kush Marathe, Ashutosh Sharma, Karn Sharma (C), Atal Bihari Rai, Shubham Chaubey, Shivam Chaudhary, Raj Choudhary, Kunal Yadav, Mohammad Saif, Akshat Pandey, Akash Pandey, Ravi Singh, Rahul Sharma, Navneet Virk
Hyderabad: Tanmay Agarwal, Rahul Buddhi, Chama Milind (C), Tanay Thyagarajan, Rakshan Readdi, Aman Rao, Arfaz Ahmed, Ashish Srivastav, Bhavesh Seth, Ajay Dev Goud, Nitesh Reddy, Nitin Sai Yadav, Pragnay Reddy, HK Simha, Rishiket Sisodia
Madhya Pradesh: Harpreet Singh, Aniket Verma, Venkatesh Iyer, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Kuldeep Sen, Ankush Singh, Rahul Batham, Rishabh Chouhan, Harsh Gawli, Abhishek Pathak, Ritik Tada, Shivam Shukla, Shivang Kumar, Tripuresh Singh
Uttar Pradesh: Sameer Rizvi (C), Abhishek Goswami, Priyam Garg, Aryan Juyal, Madhav Kaushik, Rinku Singh, Karan Sharma, Shivam Mavi, Kartik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vipraj Nigam, Shiva Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Aaditya Sharma, Aaradhya Yadav, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kunal Tyagi, Vineet Panwar, Siddarth Yadav, Sunil Kumar, Prashant Veer
Chandigarh: Manan Vohra, Raj Bawa, Bhagmender Lather, Sandeep Sharma, Shivam Bhambri, Arjit Pannu, Arjun Azad, Raman Bishnoi, Chiragvir Dhindsa, Gaurav Puri, Jagjit Singh, Nikhil Thakur, Nehal Pajni, Rahul Singh, Nikhil Sharma
Bihar: Vaibhav Suryavanshi (C), Piyush Singh, Bipin Saurabh, Sakibul Gani, Suraj Kashyap, Khalid Alam, Ayush Loharuka, Mangal Mahrour, Nawaz Khan, Malay Raj, Akash Raj, Amod Yadav
Maharashtra: Nikhil Naik, Prithvi Shaw (C), Rahul Tripathi, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Jalaj Saxena, Azim Kazi, Arshin Kulkarni, Mukesh Choudhary, Vicky Ostwal, Prashant Solanki, Mandar Bhandari, Yogesh Dongare, Ranjeet Nikam, Tanay Sanghvi
Goa: Deepraj Gaonkar, Snehal Kauthankar, Suyash Prabhudessai (C), Lalit Yadav, Darshan Misal, Felix Alemao, Vasuki Koushik, Arjun Tendulkar, Kashyap Bakhale, Ishaan Gadekar, Rajashekhar Harikant, Amulya Pandrekar, Heramb Parab, Mohit Redkar, Shubham Tari, Abhinav Tejrana, Vikash Singh
Jammu & Kashmir: Shubham Khajuria (C), Abdul Samad, Qamran Iqbal, Abid Mushtaq, Vivrant Sharma, Murugan Ashwin, Umran Malik, Yudhvir Singh, Kanhaiya Wadhawan, Auqib Nabi, Sunil Kumar, Lone Nasir, Musaif Ajaz, Vanshaj Sharma, Yawer Hassan
Haryana: Ankit Kumar, Yuvraj Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Sumit Kumar, Parth Vats, Yuzvendra Chahal, Anshul Kamboj, Anuj Thakral, Samant Jakhar, Vivek Kumar, Arsh Ranga, Bhuwan Rohilla, Mayank Shandilya, Ashish Siwach, Yashvardhan Dalal
Baroda: Mitesh Patel, Shivalik Sharma, Jitesh Sharma, Vishnu Solanki, Krunal Pandya (C), Hardik Pandya, Atit Sheth, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam, Chintal Gandhi, Bhanu Pania, Amit Passi, Safvan Patel, Dhruv Patel, Mahesh Pithiya, Ninad Rathva, Shashwat Rawat, Lakshit Toksiya
Gujarat: Aarya Desai, Saurav Chauhan, Hiten Mehra, Ripal Patel, Urvil Patel, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Harshal Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Amit Desai, Japagnya Bhatt, Abhishek Desai, Yash Doshi, Umang Kumar, Hemang Patel, Dhrushant Soni, Vishal Jayswal
Pondicherry: Ajay Rohera, Pugazhendi Akash, Aman Khan, Raghav Goyal, Himanshu Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Adil Ayub Tunda, A Aravinddaraj, Anand Bais, Bhanu Anand, Vedant Bhardwaj, Aditya Garhwal, Gaurav Yadav, Krishna Pandey, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Ramamoorthy Ragavan, Sidak Singh, Parandaman Thamaraikannan, Vijai Raja
Services: Gaurav Kochar, Mohit Rathee, Arun Kumar, Vineet Dhankhar, Jayant Goyat, Harsh Vardhan, Vikas Hathwala, Mohit Jangra, Mohit Ahlawat, Nakul Sharma, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Tanwar, Abhishek Tiwari, Vishal Gaur, Vikas Yadav
Punjab: Anmolpreet Singh, Harnoor Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Uday Saharan, Nehal Wadhera, Abhishek Sharma, Sanvir Singh, Ashwani Kumar, Gurnoor Brar, Harpreet Brar, Mayank Markande, Raghu Sharma, Salil Arora, Ayush Goyal, Vishwanath Pratap Singh
Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Abishek Porel, Writtick Chatterjee, Kanishk Seth, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Deep, Sayan Ghosh, Mohammed Shami, Shreyan Chakraborty, Saksham Choudhary, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Habib Gandhi, Karan Lal, Yuvraj Keswani, Pradipta Pramanik, Priyanshu Srivastav, Yudhajit Guha
Saurashtra: Harvik Desai, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvraj Chudasama, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Jaydev Unadkat, Ruchit Ahir, Parth Bhut, Krains Fuletra, Sammar Gajjar, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Jay Gohil, Devang Karamta, Ankur Panwar, Parswaraj Rana, Siddhant Rana, Luckyraj Vaghela
Tamil Nadu: Narayan Jagadeesan, Amit Sathvik, C Andre Siddarth, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Rithik Easwaran, M Shahrukh Khan, Tushar Raheja, Shivam Singh, Sonu Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy (C), Gurjapneet Singh, T Natarajan, Sai Kishore, Manimaran Siddharth, Ragupathy Silambarasan, Esakkimuthu A, Sai Sudharsan
Delhi: Nitish Rana (C), Anuj Rawat, Priyansh Arya, Ayush Badoni, Yash Dhull, Himmat Singh, Sarthak Ranjan, Rohan Rana, Prince Yadav, Simarjeet Singh, Suyash Sharma, Aryan Rana, Ayush Doseja, Yash Bhatia, Rahul Dagar, Tejasvi Dahiya, Dhruv Kaushik, Money Grewal, Harsh Tyagi, Vaibhav Kandpal, Ankit Kumar, Mayank Rawat, Arpit Rana
Uttarakhand: Prashant Chopra, Bhupen Lalwani, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Dikshanshu Negi, Agnivesh Ayachi, Akash Madhwal, Rajan Kumar, Jagadeesha Suchith, Agrim Tiwari, Aarav Mahajan, Avneesh Sudha, Himanshu Bisht, Kunal Chandela, Shashwat Dangwal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Naveen Kumar Singh, Rahul Raj, Sanskar Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi
Tripura: Bikramkumar Das, Manisankar Murasingh (C), Amit Ali, Sridam Paul, Vijay Shankar, Hanuma Vihari, Sankar Paul, Swapnil Singh, Joydeep Banik, Saurabh Das, Arjun Debnath, Babul Dey, Saruk Hossain, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Chiranjit Paul, Viki Saha, Sentu Sarkar, Samrat Sutradhar
Jharkhand: Ishan Kishan (C), Pankaj Kumar, Kumar Kushagra, Robin Minz, Virat Singh, Anukul Roy, Utkarsh Singh, Bal Krishna, Sushant Mishra, Amit Kumar, Md Kounain Qureshi, Manishi, Rajandeep Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Shubh Sharma, Vikash Singh
Rajasthan: Shubham Garhwal, Kartik Sharma, Kunal Singh Rathore, Deepak Hooda, Mahipal Lomror, Manav Suthar (C), Kukna Ajay Singh, Akash Singh, Ashok Sharma, Rahul Chahar, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Bharat Sharma, Ram Chouhan, Sahil Dhiwan, Ramnivas Golada, Ajayraj Singh, Sachin Yadav
Karnataka: Mayank Agarwal (C), Karun Nair, Devdutt Padikkal, BR Sharath, Krishnan Shrijith, Ravichandran Smaran, Shreyas Gopal, Shubhang Hegde, Abhinav Manohar, Macneil Noronha, Praveen Dubey, Vidwath Kaverappa, Vidyadhar Patil, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Shreevathsa Acharya, Shikhar Shetty
Arunachal Pradesh: Nabam Tempol, Techi Neri, Gandhi Ayush, Siddharth Balodi, Dado Tachung, Kara Hakap, Indiya Toku, Jainath Mansingh, Licha Jhon, Karkir Taye, Chera Mapu, Mibom Mosu, TNR Mohith, Neelam Obi, ND Rakesh Kumar, Techi Sania, Myendung Singpho, Likha Sonia, Tai Magung, Yab Niya
Sikkim: Ankur Malik, Gurinder Singh, Kranthi Kumar, Lee Yong Lepcha, Amit Rajera, Pranesh Chettri, Robin Limboo, Bhim Luitel, Md Saptulla, Bijay Prasad, Saurav Prasad, K Sai Satwik, Anwesh Sharma, Palzor Tamang, Ashish Thapa
Mizoram: Armaan Jaffer, Codanda Ajit Karthik, KC Cariappa, Jehu Anderson, Naveen Gurung, Johan Lalbiakkima, Lalhriatrenga, B Lalnunfela, Lalramnunsiama, Joseph Lalthankhuma, Sahil Sharma, Sumit Lama, Vanlalhruailuanga, Khiangte Vanrotlinga, Zosangkima
Nagaland: Chetan Bist, Joshua Ozukum, Rongsen Jonathan, Imliwati Lemtur, Ronit More, Hiketo Aye, Dip Borah, Hem Chetri, Nchumbemo Humtsoe, Saurav Kumar, Nagaho Chishi, Dega Nischal, Sedezhalie Rupero, Shamphri Terang, Akavi Yeptho
Meghalaya: Kishan Lyngdoh, Rohit Shah, Akash Choudhary (C), Abhishek Gupta, Kush Agarwal, Arpit Bhatewara, Swastic Chettri, Ram Gurung, Himan Phukan, Badonnam Mylliemngap, Aaron Nongrum, Agreas Sangma, Larry Sangma, Sengsrang Sangma, Swarajeet Das
Manipur: Mandingbam Andyroshan, Bidash Chingakham, Johnson Singh, Langlonyamba Meitan Keishangbam, Ulenyai Khwairakpam, Kiran Laishram, L Kishan Singha, Bishworjit Konthoujam, Sanatombaroy Laiphangbam, Mohammed Mustaque, Nongthombam Denin, Lamabam Singh, Pheiroijam Jotin, Kangabam Priyojit, Ningthoujam Thoiba
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