Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022: All You Need to know about SMAT 2022

The 2022 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) is all set to take center stage on Tuesday as 38 teams will compete outright to be called the domestic T20 champions. Tamil Nadu, who are the defending champions, will look to win the trophy for a record fourth time, while the competition will be played in five different cities for the group stage. Ahead of the tournament, here is all you need to know about the tournament.

When will the SMAT 2022 start?

SMAT 2022 will start on Tuesday, October 11.

How many teams will participate in the SMAT 2022?

38 teams divided in five groups will participate in SMAT 2022.

Which channel will telecast the SMAT 2022 in India?

Start Sports Network will telecast the SMAT 2022 in India.

Which platform will live stream the SMAT 2022 in India?

Hotstar will live stream the SMAT 2022 in India.

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Groups as follows with destinations

Elite A (matches to be played in Rajkot): Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Mumbai, Railways, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Vidarbha

Elite B (matches to be played in Jaipur): Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Manipur, Puducherry, Punjab, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh

Elite C (matches to be played in Mohali): Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Services

Elite D (matches to be played in Indore): Andhra Pradesh, Baroda, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Saurashtra

Elite E (matches to be played in Lucknow): Bengal, Chandigarh, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu

Squads

Goa

S 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

Hyderabad

Tanmay Agarwal (c), N Tilak Varma, T Ravi Teja, Rahul Buddi, Prateek Reddy (Wicket-Keeper), CV Milind, Mickhil Jaiswal, Tanay Tyagarajan, Sai Pragnay Reddy (Wicket-keeper), Rakshan Reddi, Mohammed Siraj, MSR Charan, Bhagat Varma, Alankrit Agarwal, Jayram Reddy, B Punnaiah, Trishank Gupta, E Sanketh, Shreyas Valla, P Nitesh Reddy.

Bengal

Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Writtick Chatterjee, Abhishek Das, Ritwik Roy Choudhary, Sudip Gharami, Ranjot Singh Khaira, Agniva Pan (wicketkeeper), Abishek Porel (wicketkeeper), Shahbaz Ahmed, Pradipta Pramanik, Karan Lal, Sujit Kumar Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, Ishan Porel, Sayan Shekhar Mondal, Ravi Kumar, Akash Gathak, Geet Puri.

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 and Akshit Rana.

Delhi

Nitish Rana (c), Himmat Singh (vc), Hiten Dalal, Yash Dhull, Anuj Rawat (wk), Hrithik Shokeen, Ayush Badoni, Lalit Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Simarjeet Singh, Mayank Yadav, Shivank Vashisht, Dev Lakra, Pradeep Sangwan, Pranshu Vijayaran.

Jammu and Kashmir

Shubham Pundir (c), Abdul Samad (vc), Qamran Iqbal, Shubham Khajuria, Henan Malik, Jatin Wadhwan, Fazil Rashid (WK), Shivansh Sharma (WK), Parvez Rasool, Nasir Lone, Auqib Nabi, Abid Mushtaq, Yudhvir Singh, Mujtaba Yousuf, Sunil Kumar.

Kerala

Sanju Samson (c), Rohan S. Kunnummal, Vishnu Vinod, Shoun Roger, Sachin Baby, Abdul Basith, Krishna Prasad, Mohammed Azharudeen, Sijomon Joseph, S. Midhun, Vyshak Chandran, Manu Krishnan, Basil Thampi, N.P. Basil, F. Fanoos, K.M. Asif, Sachin Suresh.

Karnataka

Mayank Agarwal (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Manish Pandey, Abhinav Manohar, Chethan LR, Manoj Bhandage, K Gowtham, Shreyas Gopal, Jagadeesa Suchith, Luvnith Sisodia, Sharath BR, Koushik V, Vyshak V, Kaverappa, Venkatesh M.

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.

Tamil Nadu

B Aparajith (c), M S Washington Sundar (vice-captain), B Sai Sudharsan, T Natarajan, M Shahrukh Khan, R Sai Kishore, R Sanjay Yadav, Sandeep Warrier, M Siddharth, Varun Chakravarthy, J Suresh Kumar, C Hari Nishaanth, R Silambarasan, M Ashwin, G Ajitesh, M Mohammad and Abhishek Tanwar.

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 and Shiva Singh.

Maharashtra

Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Rahul Tripathi, Naushad Shaikh, Satyajeet Bacchav, Yash Nahar, Pawan Shah, Siddhesh Veer, Y Kshirsagar, Azim Kazi, Shamshuzma Kazi, Kaushal Tambe, Vicky Ostwal, Manoj Ingale, Ashay Palkar, Divyang Hingnekar, Rajwardhan Hangargekar, Ramkrishna Ghosh.

Mumbai

Ajinkya Rahane (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Prithvi Shaw, Sarfaraz Khan, Shardul Thakur, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Hardik Tamore (wk), Prashant Solanki, Dhaval Kulkarni, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Aman Khan, Sairaj Patil, Mohit Awasthi.

Odisha

Abhishek Raut (c), Aasirwad Swain (wk), Shantanu Mishra, Anshuman Rath, Sujit Lenka (wk), Rakesh Pattnaik, Mushtaq Beg, Suryakant Pradhan, Debabrata Pradhan, Om T Munde, Subhranshu Senapati, Sameer Mohanty, Sushil Barik, Jayanta Behera, Tarini Sa, Rajesh Mohanty.

Jharkhand

Virat Singh (c), Shahbaz Nadeem (vc), Nazim Siddique, Kumar Deobrat, Kumar Suraj, Pankaj Kumar (wk), Manishi, Bala Krishna, Kumar Kushagra (wk), Anukul Roy, Vivekanand Tiwary, Aayush Bhardwaj, Rajandeep Singh, Vikash Singh, Rahul Shukla, Supriyo Chakraborty.

FIXTURES

October 11

Below matches 10 AM onwards

Arunachal Pradesh vs Kerala

Railways vs Uttarakhand

Mizoram vs Mumbai

Bengal vs Jharkhand

Baroda vs Nagaland

Goa vs Tripura

Gujarat vs Himachal Pradesh

Delhi vs Manipur

J&K vs Meghalaya

Odisha vs Sikkim

Below matches from 2 PM onwards

Hyderabad vs Punjab

Haryana vs Services

Karnataka vs Maharashtra

Assam vs Vidarbha

Chattisgarh vs Tamil Nadu

Madhya Pradesh vs Rajasthan

Andhra vs Saurashtra

Puducherry vs Uttar Pradesh

Oct 12

Below matches 10AM onwards

Baroda vs Saurashtra

Andhra vs Himachal Pradesh

Odisha vs Tamil Nadu

Chhattisgarh vs Jharkhand

Haryana vs Meghalaya

Maharashtra vs Services

Tripura vs Uttar Pradesh

Hyderabad vs Puducherry

Assam vs Uttarakhand

Rajasthan vs Vidarbha

Below matches 2pm onwards

Chandigarh vs Sikkim

Bihar vs Nagaland

Arunachal Pradesh vs Jammu and Kashmir

Karnataka vs Kerala

Goa vs Manipur

Delhi vs Punjab

Mizoram vs Railways

Madhya Pradesh vs Mumbai

Oct 14

Matches below start 10 AM

Tamil Nadu vs Sikkim

Chandigarh vs Jharkhand

Nagaland vs Saurashtra

Bihar vs Himachal Pradesh

Karnataka vs Meghalaya

Haryana vs Kerala

Punjab vs Tripura

Delhi vs Uttar Pradesh

Assam vs Mumbai

Madhya Pradesh vs Uttarakhand

Matches below 2 pm onwards

Bengal vs Odisha

Baroda vs Gujarat

Arunachal Pradesh vs Services

Jammu and Kashmir vs Maharashtra

Manipur vs Puducherry

Goa vs Hyderabad

Mizoram vs Vidarbha

Railways vs Rajasthan

Oct 16

Below matches start 10 AM

Chandigarh vs Odisha

Bengal vs Tamil Nadu

Baroda vs Bihar

Gujarat vs Saurashtra

Kerala vs Services

Maharashtra vs Meghalaya

Delhi vs Puducherry

Hyderabad vs Tripura

Mumbai vs Vidarbha

Rajasthan vs Uttarakhand

Below Matches starts 2 PM

Chhattisgarh vs Sikkim

Andhra vs Nagaland

Jammu and Kashmir vs Karnataka

Arunachal Pradesh vs Haryana

Goa vs Punjab

Manipur vs Uttar Pradesh

Assam vs Mizoram

Madhya Pradesh vs Railways

Oct 18

Matches below start 10 am

Bengal vs Sikkim

Chandigarh vs Chhattisgar

Gujarat vs Nagaland

Andhra vs Bihar

Haryana vs Jammu and Kashmir

Arunachal Pradesh vs Karnataka

Goa vs Uttar Pradesh

Manipur vs Punjab

Assam vs Railways

Madhya Pradesh vs Mizoram

Matches below start 2 PM

Jharkhand vs Tamil Nadu

Himachal Pradesh vs Saurashtra

Kerala vs Maharashtra

Meghalaya vs Services

Delhi vs Hyderabad

Puducherry vs Tripura

Uttarakhand vs Vidarbha

Mumbai vs Rajasthan

Oct 20

Matches below start 10 AM

Chandigarh vs Tamil Nadu

Bengal vs Chhattisgarh

Bihar vs Saurashtra

Andhra vs Gujarat

Karnataka vs Services

Jammu and Kashmir vs Kerala

Puducherry vs Punjab

Delhi vs Goa

Mumbai vs Railways

Madhya Pradesh vs Vidarbha

Matches below start 2 PM

Jharkhand vs Odisha

Baroda vs Himachal Pradesh

Haryana vs Maharashtra

Arunachal Pradesh vs Meghalaya

Hyderabad vs Uttar Pradesh

Manipur vs Tripura

Mizoram vs Uttarakhand

Assam vs Rajasthan

Oct 22

Below matches start from 10 AM

Chhattisgarh vs Odisha

Jharkhand vs Sikkim

Andhra vs Baroda

Himachal Pradesh vs Nagaland

Arunachal Pradesh vs Maharashtra

Haryana vs Karnataka

Hyderabad vs Manipur

Punjab vs Uttar Pradesh

Assam vs Madhya Pradesh

Mizoram vs Rajasthan

Below matches starts 2 PM

Bengal vs Chandigarh

Bihar vs Gujarat

Kerala vs Meghalaya

Jammu and Kashmir vs Services

Delhi vs Tripura

Goa vs Puducherry

Railways vs Vidarbha

Mumbai vs Uttarakhand

Oct 30

Pre Quarterfinal 1, 10 am start

Pre Quarterfinal 2, 10 am start

Nov 1

Quarterfinal 1, 10 am start

Quarterfinal 2, 10 am start

Quarterfinal 3, 2 pm start

Quarterfinal 4, 2 pm start

Nov 3

Semi Final 1, 10 am start

Semi Final 2, 2 pm start

Nov 5

Final, 10 am start