Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025-26: Schedule, Squads, Broadcast and Live Streaming details

The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) 2025 is set to kick off on Wednesday, November 26, ushering in another exciting season of India’s elite domestic T20 competition. With 32 teams, 125 matches, and a high-stakes race to the final on December 18, the tournament once again promises thrilling cricket, emerging stars and high-pressure battles between seasoned domestic performers.

Tournament overview

The defending champions Mumbai enter the new season with strong momentum after overcoming Madhya Pradesh in last year’s title clash. This edition will once again see teams split into four groups of eight, with the top two from each pool progressing to the Super League stage. From there, the competition intensifies as the best sides vie for a spot in the final.

Alongside Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh, domestic heavyweights including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Bengal, Saurashtra, Delhi, Baroda, Vidarbha and others will be in contention. With several India internationals returning to strengthen their state units, this season promises competitive cricket from the opening day.

Full schedule of SMAT 2025

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Squads

• Mumbai: Shardul Thakur (C), 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Nikhil Naik, Prithvi Shaw, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Broadcast and Live Streaming details

• Star Sports Network: Select matches will be broadcast live on the Star Sports channels.
• JioHotstar App: Streaming available for a curated set of fixtures throughout the tournament.

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