Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: T20 match won in just 18 balls, no batsman from the opposing team could even touch double figures

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|27-11-2024

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024 is currently being played in Indian domestic cricket. Many big players are playing in this tournament being played among 38 teams. Fans are getting to see many high scoring matches in this tournament. But the opposite was seen in the match played between Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu Kashmir. In this match, both the teams could not play even 20 overs together, during which the record of the biggest win of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy was also broken.

The entire team collapsed for 32 runs.

This match between the teams of Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu Kashmir was played at Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy BKC, Mumbai. In this match, Jammu and Kashmir team won by 10 wickets. In this match, Arunachal Pradesh had won the toss and decided to bat first, which proved to be completely wrong. The Arunachal Pradesh team could play only 9.1 overs during this period and was all out after scoring 32 runs. Let us tell you, during this innings, no batsman of Arunachal Pradesh team could touch double figures. In this innings, Abhishek Pujari scored maximum 5 unbeaten runs. Whereas, Abid Mushtaq took maximum 4 wickets for Jammu and Kashmir.

Arunachal Pradesh also made a shameful record in its name in this match. This is the second lowest score in the history of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Earlier in the year 2009, Tripura team had collapsed for only 30 runs against Jharkhand. That means the team of Arunachal Pradesh narrowly escaped from breaking this record. Apart from these two teams, no other team has been all out on a score of less than 40 runs in this tournament.

Won T20 match in just 18 balls

Due to this poor performance of Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir got the target of only 33 runs to win this match. Jammu and Kashmir did not take much time to chase the small target and finished the match in just 3 overs. During this, Yudhveer Singh scored unbeaten 21 runs on 11 balls. Whereas, Kamran Iqbal remained unbeaten after scoring 10 runs. That means Jammu and Kashmir team won this match with 102 balls remaining, which is the biggest win of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in terms of balls. Earlier in the year 2009, Jharkhand had defeated Tripura with 100 balls to spare.

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