SMAT 2026: Suryakumar Yadav slams 21-ball 60; Mayank Yadav picks fifer

Suryakumar Yadav smashed six fours and five sixes in a 21-ball 60 while Musheer Khan tonked 51 off 24 as Mumbai made mincemeat of Hyderabad's 172, chasing it down in 13.1 overs. Before the hit-fest, Mumbai off-spinner Maxwell Swaminathan returned 3-23 in 4 overs.

Krunal Pandya scored a laborious 40 off 42 and then got figures of 2-7 in 4 overs but Chandigarh did just enough to win a final-over thriller against Baroda. Baroda only posted 148/6 in 20 overs but did well to push the chase to the final over, with Chandigarh down to 137/7 in 19 overs. Jagjit Singh hit two fours, the second off the penultimate ball, to secure the win.

Punjab opener Vihaan Malhotra scored 86 off 50 balls - with eight fours and five sixes, while No. 7 batter Uday Saharan smashed 42 off 18 to power their side in chase of Haryana's 190/6.

In a game dominated by batters, Puducherry's 17-year-old left-arm spinner Badal Rawat returned figures of 3-12 in four overs as they prevailed over Maharashtra. Opener Arshin Kulkarni hit 18-ball 33 while Sahil Parakh smashed a 29-ball 57 but Maharashtra fell 15 short in chase against Puducherry's 204/9.

Gujarat's 19-year-old finisher Khilan Patel slammed 84 off 29, with six fours and eight sixes as his team did enough to defend 250/9 against Odisha. Gujarat opener Urvil Patel scored big too, hitting 62 off 30 balls. Odisha got close via a 129-run stand off 70 balls between Kartik Biswal (55 off 32) and Subranshu Senapati (89 off 47).

Cheepurapalli Stephen and KV Sasikanth picked three wickets each as Andhra secured a comfortable 43-run win over Tripura. Tripura did well to restrict AP to 141/9, but their batters didn't step up as they were bundled out for just 98.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi began with a loss in his first (and only) game of SMAT 2026 as captain as Bihar succumbed to a five-wicket loss to Saurashtra. Chetan Sakariya and Prerak Mankad bagged three wickets each while the impressive Krains Fuletra returned figures of 1/10 in 4 overs. That helped Saurashtra keep Bihar down to 137/9 which they chased down with five wickets and 3.3 overs to spare.

Defending champions Jharkhand were off to a flying start as they crushed Mizoram by six wickets. Pratyush Kumar and Harsh Raj and three wickets each as Mizoram folded for just 76. Jharkhand opener Utkarsh Singh slammed 45 of the target in just 27 balls to put the game beyond doubt early. Jharkhand needed just 8.3 overs to wrap up the win.

Saurabh Dubey (4-30) helped Vidarbha restrict Goa to 146/9 with his Powerplay and death over strikes. Vidarbha's chase was then built on fifties from Atharva Taide (52 off 42) and Ravikumar Samarth (53 off 39) as they got to 150/3 in 17.3 overs.

Left-arm pacer Abhilash Shetty picked four wickets and Vyshak Vijaykumar had three as Karnataka started their campaign with a win over Bengal. A Karun Nair half-century led Karnataka to 184 which they defended despite the efforts of Sudip Kumar Gharani (65 off 42) and Shahbaz Ahmed (56 off 37).

Akshat Raghuwanshi (45 off 28) and Rajat Patidar (36* off 29) paved the way for Madhya Pradesh's five-wicket victory over Kerala, who scored a lowly 138/6.

Chhattisgarh's 17-year-old captain Vikalp Tiwari smashed a 17-ball 50, while Ajay Jadhav Mandal scored 66 off 37, pushing their team to chase down Uttarakhand's 197/6 in 18.3 overs.

Sameer Rizvi hit seven sixes in his 35-ball 74 but that came in a losing cause as Rajasthan chased down Uttar Pradesh's 171/6. Rajasthan's chase was fuelled by the top-three batters - Abhijeet Tomar (63 off 34), Rohan Rajbar (48 off 31) and Mahipal Lomror (33 off 16).

Delhi smashed J&K by 103 runs in a dominating performance across board. First, Priyansh Arya (58 off 29), Tejasvi Dahiya (46 off 24) and Himmat Singh (63* off 26) pushed Delhi to 243/6 in 20 overs. Mayank Yadav then piled on J&K's misery with a stunning five-wicket haul, bowling them out for 140.

Railways went into the final over of their chase against Tamil Nadu needing 10 runs but failed to get the job done. Railways had struggled through the chase of TN's 172/7 but Toufik Uddin Mondal smashed a 22-ball 57. But his knock, with five fours and five sixes, weren't enough. Athisayaraj Davidson bagged three wickets while Gurjapneet Singh came in clutch in the final over.

In the Plate division, Meghalaya prevailed over Nagaland by 18 runs, with Akshay Karnewar starring with both bat and ball (24 & 2-27). Sultan Karim picked four wickets and L Kishan Singha bagged three as Manipur beat Arunachal Pradesh by 61 runs. Opener Suraj Vashisht hit 67 off 43 as they beat Sikkim by 6 wickets.