Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Tilak Varma and Shreyas Gopal apical the battng and bowling charts respectively truthful acold successful the tournament. (AP/Instagram)
After severals rounds of aggravated action, the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy radical stages volition travel to a adjacent connected Thursday astatine the extremity of 127 league games wherever 38 teams were successful contention.
10 teams volition proceed to the knockouts with six teams straight making it to the quarter-finals. Four second-placed teams crossed 5 groups volition vie successful the pre-quarterfinals arsenic each knockout games volition beryllium played successful Bengaluru betwixt December 9 and 15.
With the tourney witnessing unprecedented levels of six-hitting and 12 centuries already, some batters and bowlers person been enactment nether the pump to heighten their show with each round. Here is simply a look astatine the apical performers frankincense far:
SMAT 2024: Best batters successful the tourney truthful far
Player | Inns | Runs | HS | Ave | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s |
Tilak Varma (HYD) | 6 | 327 | 151 | 65.4 | 169.43 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 17 |
Sakibul Gani (BIHAR) | 6 | 326 | 120* | 65.2 | 150.92 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 10 |
Harvik Desai (SAU) | 6 | 305 | 76 | 50.83 | 158.03 | – | 3 | 36 | 13 |
Karan Lal (BENG) | 6 | 295 | 94* | 59 | 171.51 | – | 2 | 32 | 16 |
Urvil Patel (GUJ) | 5 | 282 | 115* | 94 | 229.26 | 2 | – | 20 | 25 |
In the astir caller game, Tilak Varma scored 46 runs and kept his presumption astatine the apical of the leaderboard aft scoring 327 runs successful 6 innings with a onslaught complaint of 169.43. Bihar’s Sakibul Gani, who scored 79 successful their astir caller crippled connected December 3rd, is presently ranked 2nd successful the rankings. The Bihar skipper besides recorded his highest T20 people of 120 not retired successful the tournament. Saurashtra wicket-keeper Harvik Desai is the 3rd batter to person crossed the 300-run margin, striking implicit 158 with an mean supra 50.
Bengal’s Karan Lal who missed retired connected a half-century during his caller outing ranks 4th with Gujarat’s record-breaking Urvil Patel up connected 5th aft 2 spellbinding centuries.
SMAT 2024: Best bowlers successful the tourney truthful far
Player | Wkts | Inns | Balls | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Ave | Econ |
Shreyas Gopal (Karnataka) | 14 | 6 | 144 | 24 | – | 125 | 8.92 | 5.2 |
Mukesh Choudhary (MAHA) | 13 | 5 | 108 | 18 | 1 | 146 | 11.23 | 8.11 |
K Kartikeya (MP) | 13 | 6 | 144 | 24 | – | 185 | 14.23 | 7.7 |
Abid Mushtaq (J & K) | 12 | 6 | 103 | 17.1 | – | 144 | 12 | 8.38 |
Jagjit Singh (CHD) | 12 | 5 | 114 | 19 | 1 | 147 | 12.25 | 7.73 |
In his astir caller game, Karnataka’s Shreyas Gopal bagged a hat-trick and finished with 4/19, including the captious scalps of Hardik Pandya and Krunal Pandya. With 14 wickets successful six games, helium has been the tournament’s champion bowler. Second connected the database is Maharashtra left-armer, Mukesh Choudhary, who has taken 13 wickets successful 5 games, portion Madhya Pradesh spinner Kumar Kartikeya has taken 13 wickets successful six games.