SMAT 2025-26 | Hyderabad ekes out a win over Uttar Pradesh; Suryavanshi’s blistering ton goes in vain

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 Suryavanshi became the youngest centurion successful  the tournament.

Bittersweet ton: Suryavanshi became the youngest centurion successful the tournament. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI

Rakshann Readi and Tanay Thyagarajann’s three-wicket hauls, and Tanmay Agarwal’s good 43 (26b, 4x4, 3x6) proved important arsenic Hyderabad survived a scare to bushed Uttar Pradesh by 3 wickets and grounds its 3rd triumph successful the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy astatine the Eden Gardens present connected Tuesday.

Electing to field, Hyderabad, boosted by pacer Mohammed Siraj’s availability, wrapped up the Uttar Pradesh innings for 127. The C.V. Milind-led broadside stuttered earlier managing to transverse the enactment with 17 balls to spare.

 Tanmay’s 26-ball 43 proved captious   successful  Hyderabad chasing down   128.

Rising to the occasion: Tanmay’s 26-ball 43 proved captious successful Hyderabad chasing down 128. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI

Chasing a humble target, Hyderabad was disconnected to an perfect commencement arsenic opener Aman Rao executed his cleanable hitting, plundering 2 fours and a six against left-arm pacer Sunil Kumar successful the 2nd over, which produced 16 runs.

After Aman miscued a slower 1 successful Shivam Mavi’s archetypal over, Tanmay exhibited his superb shots. The left-hander confidently pulled for a 4 and 2 sixes and hoisted different maximum implicit long-off disconnected Mavi’s 2nd over.

Hyderabad was comfortably placed astatine 62 for 2 successful the PowerPlay earlier the deceptive Vipraj Nigam and left-arm spinner Prashant Veer picked up 5 wickets betwixt them to enactment Hyderabad nether pressure.

Lower-order batters Arfaz Khan (13 n.o., 11b) and Nitin Yadav (10 n.o., 12b) formed an unbroken 22-run basal to instrumentality Hyderabad to victory.

Earlier, Hyderabad bowlers kept a choky leash connected the Uttar Pradesh batters. Left-arm spinner Tanay varied his enactment to fox 3 important batters. Pacer Rakshann took 3 wickets, portion Milind showed subject to scalp two. Madhav Kaushik (37, 31b, 4x4, 1x6) was the champion among the Uttar Pradesh batters.

Skipper Prithvi Shaw led from the beforehand with a good half-century (66, 30b, 11x4, 1x6) arsenic Maharashtra posted a three-wicket triumph implicit Bihar contempt teenage sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s breathtaking unbeaten 100 (108 n.o., 61b, 7x4, 7x6). The 14-year-old achieved a idiosyncratic milestone by becoming the youngest centurion successful the tournament.

Yawer Hassan’s 50 (57, 36b, 4x4, 4x6) helped Jammu & Kashmir bushed Chandigarh by 29 runs and unafraid its 3rd victory.

Half-centuries by Suyash Prabhudesai (75 n.o., 50b, 6x4, 3x6) and Abhinav Tejrana (55, 33b, 3x4, 4x6) earned Goa a convincing seven-wicket triumph implicit Madhya Pradesh.

Published - December 02, 2025 08:57 p.m. IST

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