India’s premier T20 tournament namely, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022/23 is slated to begin on Tuesday, October 11. Tamil Nadu are currently the defending Champions as they defeated Karanakta in last year’s Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy final played at Arun Jaitley Stadium, New Delhi.
The tournament will be divided into five elite groups with eight teams in Groups A, B, and C while seven teams comprise D and E. The top team in Group A, B, C, D, and E will directly progress into the quarter-finals stage while second-based teams from each group and top-ranked teams from the remaining groups will play the pre-quarterfinals matches.
All the league matches will be played across Indore, Jaipur, Lucknow, Mohali, and Rajkot while the knockout will be played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Groups of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
| S NO | Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Group E |
| 1. | Assam | Delhi | Haryana | Andhra Pradesh | Bengal |
| 2. | Madhya Pradesh | Goa | Arunchal Pradesh | Baroda | Chandigarh |
| 3. | Mizoram | Hyderabad | J and K | Bihar | Chhattisgarh |
| 4. | Mumbai | Puducherry | Karnataka | Gujarat | Jharkhand |
| 5. | Railways | Manipur | Kerala | Himachal Pradesh | Odisha |
| 6. | Rajasthan | Punjab | Maharashtra | Nagaland | Sikkim |
| 7. | Uttarakhand | Tripura | Meghalaya | Saurashtra | Tamil Nadu |
| 8. | Vidarbha | Uttar Pradesh | Services |
Schedule – Group A
Railways versus Uttarakhand (Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot)- 11th October
Mizoram versus Mumbai (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 11th October
Assam versus Vidarbha (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 11th October
Madhya Pradesh versus Rajasthan (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 11th October
Assam versus Uttarakhand (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 12th October
Rajasthan versus Vidarbha (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 12th October
Mizoram versus Railways (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 12th October
Mumbai versus Madhya Pradesh (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 12th October
Assam versus Mumbai (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 14th October
Madhya Pradesh versus Uttarakhand (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 14th October
Mizoram versus Vidarbha (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 14th October
Railways versus Rajasthan (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 14th October
Mumbai versus Vidarbha (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 16th October
Rajasthan versus Uttarakhand (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 16th October
Assam versus Mizoram (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 16th October
Madhya Pradesh versus Railways (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 16th October
Assam versus Railways (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 18th October
Madhya Pradesh versus Mizoram (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 18th October
Vidarbha versus Uttarakhand (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 18th October
Mumbai versus Rajasthan (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 18th October
Mumbai versus Railways (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 20th October
Madhya Pradesh versus Vidarbha (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 20th October
Mizoram versus Uttarakhand (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 20th October
Assam versus Rajasthan (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 20th October
Assam versus Madhya Pradesh (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 22nd October
Mizoram versus Rajasthan (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 22nd October
Railways versus Vidarbha (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 22nd October
Mumbai versus Uttarakhand (SCA Stadium, Rajkot)- 22nd October
Schedule – Group B
Goa versus Tripura (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 11th October
Delhi versus Manipur (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 11th October
Hyderabad versus Punjab (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 11th October
Puducherry versus Uttar Pradesh (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 11th October
Tripura versus Uttar Pradesh (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 12th October
Hyderabad versus Puducherry (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 12th October
Goa versus Manipur (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 12th October
Delhi versus Punjab (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 12th October
Punjab versus Tripura (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 14th October
Delhi versus Uttar Pradesh (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 14th October
Manipur versus Pudducherry (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 14th October
Goa versus Hyderabad (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 14th October
Delhi versus Puducherry (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)-16th October
Hyderabad versus Tripura (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 16th October
Goa versus Punjab (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 16th October
Manipur versus Uttar Pradesh (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 16th October
Goa versus Uttar Pradesh (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 18th October
Manipur versus Punjab (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 18th October
Delhi versus Hyderabad (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 18th October
Puducherry versus Tripura (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 18th October
Puducherry versus Punjab (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 20th October
Delhi versus Goa (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 20th October
Hyderabad versus Uttar Pradesh (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 20th October
Manipur versus Tripura (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 20th October
Hyderabad versus Manipur (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 22nd October
Punjab versus UP (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 22nd October
Delhi versus Tripura (Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Jaipur)- 22nd October
Goa versus Puducherry (Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur)- 22nd October
Schedule – Group C
Arunchal Pradesh versus Kerala (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 11th October
Jammu and Kashmir versus Meghalaya (PCA Stadium, Mohali)-11th October
Haryana versus Services (PCA Stadium, Mohali)-11th October
Karanakta versus Maharashtra (PCA Stadium, Mohali)-11th October
Haryana versus Meghalaya (TBC versus TBC)- 12th October
Maharashtra versus Services (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 12th October
Arunchal Pradesh versus J and K (TBC, TBC)-12th October
Karnataka versus Kerala (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 12th October
Karnataka versus Meghalaya (TBC, TBC)-14th October
Haryana versus Kerala (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 14th October
Arunchal Pradesh versus Services (TBC, TBC)- 14th October
Jammu and Kashmir versus Maharashtra (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 14th October
Kerala versus Services (Maharaja Yadvindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Chandigarh)-16th October
Maharashtra versus Meghalaya (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 16th October
Jammu and Kashmir versus Karanakta (Maharaja Yadvindra Singh International Cricket Stadium,Chandigarh)- 16th October
Arunachal Pradesh versus Haryana (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 16th October
Haryana versus J and K (Maharaja Yadvindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Chandigarh)-18th October
Arunachal Pradesh versus Karanakta (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 18th October
Kerala versus Maharashtra (Maharaja Yadvindra Singh International Cricket Stadium,Chandigarh)- 18th October
Meghalaya versus Services (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 18th October
Karanakta versus Services (Maharaja Yadvindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Chandigarh)-20th October
Jammu and Kashmir versus Kerala (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 20th October
Haryana versus Maharashtra (Maharaja Yadvindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Chandigarh-20th October
Arunchal Pradesh versus Meghalaya (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 20th Ocotber
Karnataka versus Services (Maharaja Yadvindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Chandigarh)- 22nd October
Jammu and Kashmir versus Kerala (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 22nd October
Haryana versus Maharashtra (Maharaja Yadvindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Chandigarh
Arunchal Pradesh versus Meghalaya (PCA Stadium, Mohali)- 22nd October
Schedule- Group D
Baroda versus Nagaland (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 11th October
Gujarat versus Himachal Pradesh (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 11th October
Andhra Pradesh versus Saurashtra (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 11th October
Baroda versus Saurashtra (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 12th October
Andhra Pradesh versus Himachal Pradesh (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 12th October
Bihar versus Nagaland (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 12th October
Nagaland versus Saurashtra (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 14th October
Bihar versus Himachal Pradesh (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 14th October
Baroda versus Gujarat (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 14th October
Baroda versus Bihar (Emerald High School Ground, Indore)- 16th October
Gujarat versus Saurashtra (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 16th October
Andhra Pradesh versus Nagaland (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 16th October
Gujarat versus Nagaland (Daily College Ground, Indore)- 18th October
Andhra Pradesh versus Bihar (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 18th October
Himachal Pradesh versus Saurashtra (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 18th October
Bihar versus Saurashtra (Daily College Ground, Indore)- 20th October
Andhra Pradesh versus Gujarat (Holkar Stadium, Indore)-20th October
Baroda versus Himachal Pradesh (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 20th October
Andhra Pradesh versus Baroda (Daily College Ground, Indore)- 22nd October
Himachal Pradesh versus Nagaland (Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 22nd October
Bihar versus Gujarat ( Holkar Stadium, Indore)- 22nd October.
Schedule – Group E
Bengal versus Jharkhand (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 11th October
Odisha versus Sikkim (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 11th October
Chhattisgarh versus Tamil Nadu (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 11th October
Odisha versus Tamil Nadu (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 12th October
Chhattisgarh versus Jharkhand (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 12th October
Chandigarh versus Sikkim (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 12th October
Tamil Nadu versus Sikkim (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 14th October
Chandigarh versus Jharkhand (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 14th October
Bengal versus Odisha (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 14th October
Chandigarh versus Odisha (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 16th October
Bengal versus Tamil Nadu (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 16th October
Chhattisgarh versus Sikkim (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 16th October
Bengal versus Sikkim (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 18th October
Chandigarh versus Chhattisgarh (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 18th October
Jharkhand versus Tamil Nadu (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 18th October
Chandigarh versus Tamil Nadu (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 20th October
Bengal versus Chhattisgarh (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 20th October
Jharkhand versus Odisha (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 20th October
Chhattisgarh versus Odisha (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 22nd October
Jharkhand versus Sikkim (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 22nd October
Bengal versus Chandigarh (Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow)- 22nd October
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy – Squads
Kerala: Sanju Samson (C), Rohan S Kunnumal, Vishnu Vinod, Sachin Baby, Shoun Roger, Abdul Basith, Krishna Prasad, Mohammed Azharuddin, Sijmon Joseph, S Midhun, Vyshak Chandran, Manu Krishnan, Basil Thampi, F Fanoos, NP Basil, KM Asif, Sachin Suresh
Jharkhand: Virat Singh (C), Shahbaz Nadeem, Nazim Siddique, Kumar Deborat, Suraj Kumar, Pankaj Kumar Manishi, Bala Krishna, Kumar Kusghara, Anukul Roy, Vivekanand Tiwary, Aayush Bhardwaj, Rajandeep Singh, Vikash Singh, Rahul Shukla, Supriyo Chakravarthy.
Hyderabad: Tanmay Agarwal (C), Tilak Verma, Ravi Teja, Rahul Buddi, Prateek Reddy, CV Milind, Tanay Tagarajan, Sai Pragnay Reddy, Rakshan Reddi, Mohammed Siraj, MSR Charan, Bhagat Verma, Alankrit Agarwal, Jayram Reddy, Trishank Gupta, E Sanketh, B Punnaih, Shreyas Valla, Nitesh Reddy.
Delhi: Nitish Rana (C), Himmat Singh, Hiten Dalal, Yash Dhull, Anuj Rawat (WK), Ayush Badoni, Hrithik Shokeen, Lalit Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Simrajeet Singh, Mayank Yadav, Shivank Vashisht, Dev Lakra, Pradeep Sangwan, Pranshu Vijayaran.
Jammu and Kashmir: Shubham Pandir (C), Abdul Samad, Qamran Iqbal, Shubham Khujuria, Henan Malik, Jatin Wadhwan, Fazil Rashid, Shivansh Sharma, Parveez Rasool, Nasir Lone, Auqib Nabi, Abid Mushtaq, Yudvhir Singh, Mujtaba Yousuf, Sunil Kumar
Mumbai: Ajiyanka Rahane (C), Yashivi Jaiswal, Prithvi Shaw, Sarfaraz Khan, Shardul Thakur, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Hardik Tamore, Prashant Solanki, Dhawal Kulkarni, Tushar Desphande, Shivam Dube, Aman Khan, Sairaj Patil, Mohit Awasthi.
Karnataka: Mayank Agarwal (C), Devdutt Paddikal, Manish Pandey, Abhinav Manohar, Chetan LR, Manoj Bhandage, K Gowtham, Shreyas Gopal, J Suchith, Luvnith Sisodia, Sharath BR, Koushik V Vyshak, V Kaverappa, Venetaksh M.
Tamil Nadu: B Aparajith (C), M S Washington Sundar, B Sai Sudharsan, T Natarajan, Shahrukh Khan, R Sai Kishore, R Sanjay Yadav, Sandeep Warrier, M Siddarth, Varun Chakravarthy, J Suresh Kumar, Hari Nishanth, Silambarasan, M Ashwin, G Atijesh, M Mohammed, Abhishek Tanwar.
Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Writtiwick Chatterjee, Abhishek Das, Ritwik Roy Choudhury, Sudip Gharami, Ranjot Singh Khaira, Agniva Pan, Abhishek Porel, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pradipta Pramnik, Karan Lal, Sujit Kumar Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Akash deep, Ishan Porel, Sayan Shekhar Mondal, Ravi Kumar, Akash Ghatak, Geet Puri.
Maharashtra: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Rahul Tripathi, Naushad Sheikh, Yash Nahar, Satyajeet Bachhav, Azim Kazi, Pawan Shah, Siddesh Iyer, Kaushal Tambe, Vicky Ostwal, Manoj Ingale, Ashay Palkar, Divyang Hingnekar, Rajwardhan Hangargekar, Ramkrishna Ghosh, Y Kshrsagar.
Odisha: Abhishek Raut (C), Aasirwad Swain, Shantanu Mishra, Anshuman Rath, Sujit Lenka, Rakesh Pattnaik, Mushtaq Beg, Suryakant Pradhan, Debabrata Pradhan, Om T Munde, Subhranshu Senapati, Sameer Mohanty, Sushil Barik, Jayanta Behera, Tarini Sa, Rajesh Mohanty.
Uttar Pradesh: Karan Sharma (C), Rinku Singh, Priyam Garg, Shivam Mavi, Kartik Tyagi, Shivam Sharma, Sameer Choudhary, Aryan Juyal, Sameer Rizvi, Hardeep Singh, Divyansh, Prince Yadav, Yash Dayal, Akshdeep Nath, Shiva Singh.
Punjab: Abhishek Sharma (C), Prabhsimran Singh, Anmolpreet Singh, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Mandeep Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Ramandeep Singh, Harpreet Singh Brar, Mayank Markande, Siddharth Kaul, Baltej Singh, Ashwani, Anmol Malhotra, Sanvir Singh, Pukhraj Mann.
Chandigarh: Manan Vohra (C), Harnoor Singh Pannu, Shivam Bhandari, Ankit Kaushik, Gaurav Puri, Amrit Lal Lubana, Arjit Singh, Gurinder Singh, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Bhagmender Lader, Sandeep Sharma, Jagjit Singh Sandhu, Rohit Danda, Raj Angad Bawa, Akshit Rana.
Goa: Kauthankar (C), D Goankar, V Govekar, S Prabhudesai, T Sawkar, A Pandrekar, D Misal, Amit Yadav, S Dubashi, F Alemo, L Garg, R Naik, Arjun Tendulkar, Eknath Kerkar, Siddhesh Lad, I Gadekar, A Kaushik, V Kahlon, V Naik, M Redkar.
Rajasthan: Ashok Menaria (C), Yash Kothari, Anirudh Singh Chauhan, Mahipal Lomror, Salman Khan, Arjit Gupta, Rahul Chahar, Nikhil Sachdev, Kunal Singh Rathore, Shubham Sharma, Manav Suthar, Mohit Jain, Aniket Choudhary, Tanveer Ul-Haq, Kamlesh Nagarkoti.
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