Hardik Pandya stole the limelight in the fourth round of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025-26, hitting an unbeaten 77 off 44 balls to steer Baroda to a comfortable seven-wicket win over Punjab on Tuesday.
The all-rounder returned to cricket after a long injury hiatus, playing his first match since the Asia Cup final.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi also made an impact in this round, becoming the youngest century in this tournament’s history. His unbeaten 108 off 61 against Maharashtra, however, was not enough for Bihar, which succumbed to its fourth loss.
Prithvi Shaw hit 66 off 30 balls to star in Maharashtra’s chase of 177 runs. Elsewhere, Shardul Thakur picked five wickets in Mumbai’s massive 98-run over Assam.
Here is how Team India’s stars performed in the fourth round on Tuesday:
Abhishek Sharma
A centurion in the previous round, Abhishek added to his run haul with a 19-ball 50. However, Pandya’s knock later in the day that Punjab fell to its second loss.
Sanju Samson
The Kerala captain missed out in the fourth round. He could score just one run before getting nabbed by pacer Nachiket Bhute of Vidarbha. Kerala lost the contest by six wickets.
Suryakumar Yadav
Suryakumar Yadav could score just 20 runs off 12 balls in Mumbai’s innings against Assam. Sarfaraz Khan was the highest score, managing an unbeaten 100 off 47 – his maiden T20 century.
B Sai Sudharsan
Sai Sudharsan’s inclusion in the Tamil Nadu lineup has done little to change the side’s fortunes. The southpaw scored eight runs off nine balls as TN suffered a humiliating 145-run reverse at the hands Karnataka. Devdutt Padikkal’s century (102 off 46) led Karnataka to 245 for three. Tamil Nadu was bundled out for 100 runs in the 15th over.
Mohammed Shami
Mohammed Shami’s lean run continued in this SMAT edition. He picked just one for 31 runs against Himachal Pradesh. He has just five wickets in four games and has conceded at an economy rate of 10.45.
Varun Chakaravarthy
Varun Chakaravarthy conceded 45 runs in four overs and could not pick a wicket as Tamil Nadu fell to its third defeat this season. The side is now last in Group D with just one win in four games.
The Scores
Group A (Lucknow)
Odisha 135/8 in 20 overs (Biplab Samantaray 61, Ajay Mandal 4/25) bt Chhattisgarh 108 in 19.4 overs (Sanjeet Desai 33, Amandeep Khare 46, Rajesh Mohanty 5/21).
Railways 167/7 in 20 overs (Shivam Chaudhary 32, Upendra Yadav 55, Ravi Singh 49, Satyanarayana 3/30) lost to Andhra 173/5 in 19.3 overs (Ashwin Hebbar 78, SDNV Prasad 39 no).
Mumbai 220/4 in 20 overs (Ajinkya Rahane 42, Sarfaraz Khan 100 no) bt Assam 122 in 19.1 overs (Sibsankar Roy 41, Shardul Thakur 5/23).
Kerala 164 in 19.2 overs (Rohan Kunnummal 58, Vishnu Vinod 65, Yash Thakur 5/16, Adhyayan Daga 3/22) lost to Vidarbha 165/4 in 18.3 overs (Atharva Taide 54).
Group B (Kolkata)
Bihar 176/3 in 20 overs (Vaibhav Suryavanshi 108 no) lost to Maharashtra 182/7 in 19.1 overs (Prithvi Shaw 66, Niraj Joshi 30).
Jammu & Kashmir 192/7 in 20 overs (Shubham Khajuria 43, Yawer Hassan 57) bt Chandigarh 163/7 in 20 overs (Manan Vohra 32, Arjun Azad 38, Gaurav Puri 39).
Madhya Pradesh 170/6 in 20 overs (Harpreet Singh Bhatia 80 no, Aniket Verma 34, Arjun Tendulkar 3/36) lost to Goa 171/3 in 18.3 overs (Abhinav Tejrana 55, Suyash Prabhudesai 75 no).
Uttar Pradesh 127 in 19.2 overs (Madhav Kaushik, Rakshann Readi 3/31, Tanay Thyagarajan 3/29) lost to Hyderabad 129/7 in 17.1 overs (Tanmay Agarwal 43, Vipraj Nigam 3/20).
Group C (Hyderabad)
Punjab 222/8 in 20 overs (Abhishek Sharma 50, Anmolpreet Singh 69, Naman Dhir 39, Raj Limbani 3/36) lost to Baroda 224/3 in 19.1 overs (Vishnu Solakni 43 Shashwat Rawat 31, Shivalik Sharma 47 retd. out, Hardik Pandya 77 no).
Himachal Pradesh 208/5 in 20 overs (Ekant Sen 89, Pukhraj Mann 79, Shahbaz Ahmed 3/36) lost to Bengal 212/5 in 18.4 overs (Abishek Porel 41, Karan Lal 113).
Pondicherry 83 in 13.1 overs (Japagnya Bhatt 3/17, Ravi Bishnoi 3/13) lost to Gujarat 84/1 in 9 overs (Aarya Desai 53 no).
Services 157/7 in 20 overs (Vineet Dhankhar 36, Nakul Sharma 57) lost to Haryana160/4 in 19 overs (Ankit Kumar 78 n.o.).
Group D (Ahmedabad)
Karnataka 245/3 in 20 overs (BR Sharath 53, Devdutt Padikkal 102 no, R. Smaran 46 no) bt Tamil Nadu 100 in 14.2 overs (Shreyas Gopal 3/21, Pravin Dubey 3/15).
Tripura 157/5 in 20 overs bt Delhi 145/8 in 20 overs (Nitish Rana 45).
Jharkhand 209/8 in 20 overs (Ishan Kishan 93, Chetan Sakariya 3/42) bt Saurashtra 125 in 15.1 overs (Prerak Mankad 39, Anukul Roy 3/25).
Rajasthan 193/8 in 20 overs (Deepak Hooda 90 no, Rajan Kumar 4/37) bt Uttarakhand 120 in 18 overs (Manav Suthar 3/21, Ashok Sharma 4/16).
Plate Group (Pune)
Nagaland 139/6 in 20 overs (Sedezhalie Rupero 53, Hem Chetri 30, Akash Choudhary 4/30) bt Meghalaya 81 in 16 overs.
Mizoram 186/9 in 20 overs (Codanda Ajit Karthik 33, Joseph Lalthankhuma 34, Khiangte Vanrotlinga 42, TNR Mohith 3/32, Techi Neri 3/42) bt Arunachal Pradesh 128/7 in 20 overs.
Manipur 134 in 19.5 overs (Johnson Singh 39, Ankur Malik 3/18) lost to Sikkim 138/2 in 15.2 overs (Kranthi Kumar 79 n.o., Ashish Thapa 32 n.o.).