Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024: Live Streaming, teams, group, format, key players to watch

Format of the Tournament

The tourney divides 38 teams into 5 groups with groups A, B, and C comprising 8 teams portion groups D and E person 7 teams each.

The apical 2 teams from each 5 groups volition suffice for the knockouts. While the 5 group-toppers volition marque it straight to the quarter-finals, the second-placed sides volition beryllium ranked from 6-10. The sixth-ranked squad volition besides proceed to the quarterfinals portion teams 7-10 volition conscionable successful 2 pre-quarterfinal contests to proceed.

In the 2022 season, the BCCI added the Impact Player regularisation successful the tourney (which past went connected to beryllium utilized successful the IPL) connected an experimental basis, wherever a subordinate could beryllium substituted for a caller subordinate connected the seat earlier the 14th implicit of the innings, and aboriginal made it much flexible by allowing the substitution astatine immoderate signifier of the game. However, the BCCI decided to scrap the regularisation for the upcoming season, arsenic the regularisation didn’t beryllium good with the coaches and players.

Groups and Venues of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024

As aforementioned, the teams are divided into 5 groups, and each group’s matches volition beryllium played successful a peculiar venue.

Group A: Bengal, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Hyderabad, Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Bihar.
Venue: Group A matches volition instrumentality spot successful the Niranjan Shah Stadium analyzable successful Rajkot.

Group B: Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Saurashtra, Karnataka, Tripura, Baroda, Sikkim, Uttarakhand.
Venue: Group B matches volition instrumentality spot astatine the Holkar Stadium and the Emerald Heights International School Ground successful Indore.

Group C: Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh.

Venue: Group C matches volition beryllium held successful Sharad Pawar BKC Academy and Wankhede, Mumbai

Group D: Assam, Railways, Odisha, Vidarbha. Chhattisgarh, Puducherry, Chandigarh
Venue: Group D are to play their matches successful Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam, and Dr PVG Raju ACA Sports Complex, Vizianagaram

Group E: Mumbai, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Services, Nagaland.
Venue: Group E are to play their matches successful Gymkhana Ground and Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad.

The knockout signifier of the tourney volition statesman connected December 3, with the last slated to beryllium held connected November 15. All knockout matches of the SMAT 2024-25 play volition beryllium held successful Bengaluru.

SMAT 2024-25: Players to look retired for

There are besides a fewer high-profile names that volition amusement up successful the tourney this season. Shreyas Iyer has been named the skipper for Mumbai, and aft making a fiery comeback successful the Ranji Trophy for Bengal, Mohammed Shami excessively volition instrumentality portion successful the tournament, hoping to execute successful a mode to strengthens his chances for a comeback to the Indian side.

The Pandya brothers squad up erstwhile again, with Krunal Pandya starring the broadside of Baroda and Hardik Pandya making a instrumentality to SMAT aft January 2016. The past clip Hardik played for Baroda was successful the 2018-19 Ranji Trophy season. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, starring the broadside for Uttar Pradesh, volition look to springiness his each successful the precise archetypal lucifer to cogwheel up for the upcoming IPL auction aft being released by Sunrisers Hyderabad.

SMAT 2024-25 Live Streaming Details

The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy tin beryllium streamed unrecorded connected Jio Cinema app and website from November 23.