Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025-26: Full Squads, Teams, and Player List

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025-26: Full Squads, Teams, and Player List

The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) 2025-26, India’s premier domestic T20 competition, will begin on November 26, 2025. This season introduces a new format with Elite and Plate divisions. The Elite Division has 32 teams, while the Plate Division has 6 teams.

Instead of knockouts, the top eight Elite teams will play a Super League round-robin stage, followed by the final on December 18, 2025.

Defending Champions

- Mumbai, led by Shardul Thakur, will look to defend their title.

- The squad includes big names like Suryakumar Yadav, Ajinkya Rahane, Shivam Dube, and Sarfaraz Khan.

SMAT SQUADS 2025-26

Baroda

TBA

Jammu & Kashmir

Shubham Khajuria (c), Qamran Iqbal, Musaif Aijaz, Abdul Samad, Vivrant Sharma, Yawer Hassan, Kanhaiya Wadhawan (vc), Abid Mushtaq, Vanshaj Sharma, Ashwin Murugan, Yudhvir Singh, Auqib Nabi, Umran Malik, Nasir Lone, Sunil Kumar.

Maharashtra

Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Arshin Kulkarni, Prithvi Shaw, Rahul Tripathi, Nikhil Naik (WK), Ramakrishna Ghosh, Azim Kazi, Vicky Ostwal, Tanay Sanghvi, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, Mandar Bhandari (WK), Jalaj Saxena, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Yogesh Dongare, Ranjit Nikam

Mumbai

Shardul Thakur (c), Shivam Dube, Ajinkya Rahane, Suryakumar Yadav, Ayush Mhatre, Sarfaraz Khan, Musheer Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Tushar Deshpande, Atharva Ankolekar, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Suryansh Shedge, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Sairaj Patil, Irfan Umair.

Odisha

Subhranshu Senapati, Govinda Poddar, Aditya Rout, Biplab Samantray (c), Anil Parida, Badal Biswal, Sambit Baral, Sourav Gouda, Sarbeswar Mohanty, Gaurav Choudhury, Pappu Roy, Sandeep Pattnaik, Prayash Singh, Rajesh Mohanty,Swastik Samal, Subham Satrujit, Aashirwad Swain.

Services

Gaurav Kochar, Mohit Rathee, Vineet Dhankhar, Jayant Goyat, Harsh Vardhan, Vikas Hathwala, Mohit Jangra, Mohit Ahlawat, Nakul Sharma, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Tanwar, Abhishek Tiwari, Vishal Gaur, Vikas Yadav

Andhra

Ricky Bhui (c), Ashwin Hebbar, SK Rasheed, Srikar Bharat, Saurabh Kumar, Prithvi Raj, Satyanarayana Raju, Pyla Avinash, KV Sasikanth, Tripurana Vijay, Bailapudi Yeswanth, Sai Rahul, Panduranga Raju, Siraparapu Ashish, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Munish Verma.

Gujarat

Arya Desai, Urvil Patel, Saurav Chauhan, Hiten Mehra, Ripal Patel, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Harshal Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Amit Desai, Japagnya Bhatt, Abhishek Desai, Yash Doshi, Umang Kumar, Hemang Patel, Dhrushant Soni, Vishal Jayswal.

Himachal Pradesh

Ankush Bains (c), Innesh Mahajan, Ekant Sen, Nikhil Gangta, Naveen Kanwar, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Dagar, Arpit Guleria, Amanpreet Singh, Aryaman Singh, Divesh Sharma, Rahul Chauhan, Pukhraj Mann, Mridul Surroch, Ravi Thakur, Vipin Sharma.

Hyderabad

Tanmay Agarwal, Rahul Buddhi, C.V. Milind (c), Tanay Thyagarajan, Rakshan Readdi, Aman Rao, Arfaz Ahmed, Ashish Srivastav, Bhavesh Seth, Ajay Dev Goud, Nitesh Reddy, Nitin Sai Yadav, Pragnay Reddy, HK Simha, Rishiket Sisodia

Puducherry

TBA

Rajasthan

TBA

Uttarakhand

Prashant Chopra, Bhupen Lalwani, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Dikshanshu Negi, Agnivesh Ayachi, Akash Madhwal, Rajan Kumar, Jagadeesha Suchith, Agrim Tiwari, Aarav Mahajan, Avneesh Sudha, Himanshu Bisht, Kunal Chandela, Shashwat Dangwal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Naveen Kumar Singh, Rahul Raj, Sanskar Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi.

Vidarbha

Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Dhruv Shorey, Akshay Wadkar, Harsh Dubey (c), Nachiket Bhute, Parth Rekhade, Atharva Taide, Yash Thakur (vc), Praful Hinge, Darshan Nalkande, Umesh Yadav, Varun Bisht, Adhyayan Daga, Shivam Deshmukh, Yash Kadam, Dipesh Parwani.

Bengal

Abhimanyu Easwaran (Captain), Sudip Gharami, Abishek Porel (WK), Shakir Habib Gandhi (WK), Yuvraj Keswani, Priyanshu Srivastav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pradipta Pramanik, Writtick Chatterjee, Karan Lal, Saksham Chaudhary, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Sayan Ghosh, Kanishk Seth, Yudhajit Guha, Shreyan Chakraborty.

Bihar

Vaibhav Suryavanshi (vc), Piyush Singh, Bipin Saurabh, Sakibul Gani (c), Suraj Kashyap, Khalid Alam, Ayush Loharuka, Mangal Mahrour, Nawaz Khan, Malay Raj, Akash Raj, Amod Yadav

Haryana

TBA

Karnataka

Mayank Agarwal (Capt.), Macneil H. Noronha, K.L. Shrijith, Karun Nair, R. Smaran, Abhinav Manohar, Shreyas Gopal, Shikhar Shetty, V. Vyshak, Vidwath Kaverappa, Vidyadhar Patil, Shreevathsa R. Acharya, Shubhang Hegde, Pravin Dubey, B.R. Sharath, Devdutt Padikkal.

Kerala

Sanju Samson (c), Mohammed Azharuddeen, Ahammed Imran, Rohan Kunnummal, Salman Nizar, Vishnu Vinod, Abdul Basith, Ankit Sharma, KM Asif, MD Nidheesh, Vignesh Puthur, Sibin Gireesh, Krishna Devan, Krishna Prasad, Saly Samson, Akhil Scaria, Sharafuddeen.

Madhya Pradesh

Harpreet Singh, Aniket Verma, Venkatesh Iyer, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Kuldeep Sen, Ankush Singh, Rahul Batham, Rishabh Chouhan, Harsh Gawli, Abhishek Pathak, Ritik Tada, Shivam Shukla, Shivang Kumar, Tripuresh Singh

Punjab

TBA

Uttar Pradesh

TBA

Assam

Denish Das, Riyan Parag (c), Sibsankar Roy, Abdul Ajij Kuraishi, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Avinov Choudhury, Bhargab Lahkar, Mukhtar Hussain, Mrinmoy Dutta, Saahil Jain, Jitumoni Kalita, Nibir Deka, Pradyun Saikia, Rhot Sen, Akash Sengupta.

Chandigarh

TBA

Chhattisgarh

Ajay Mandal, Aditya Sarwate, Shashank Singh, Amandeep Khare (c), Shubham Agarwal, Amit Kumar Yadav, Ayush Pandey, Shashank Chandrakar, Gagandeep Singh, Sanidhya Hurkat, Sourabh Majumdar, Mayank Verma, Mayank Yadav, Anand Rao, Ravi Kiran, Prateek Yadav.

Delhi

Nitish Rana (c), Arpit Rana, Priyansh Arya, Sarthak Ranjan, Ayush Badoni, Ayush Doseja, Mayank Rawat, Tejasvi, Anuj Rawat, Yash Dhull, Himmat Singh, Simarjeet Singh, Rahul Dagar, Yash Bhatia, Ankit Rajesh Kumar, Harsh Tyagi, Suyash Sharma, Prince Yadav, Money Grewal, Rohan Rana, Dhruv Kaushik, Aryan Rana, Vaibhav Khandpal.

Subject to availability: Ishant Sharma, Harshit Rana, Navdeep Saini.

Jharkhand

Ishan Kishan (c) (wk), Virat Singh, Kumar Kushagra (wk), Robin Minz, Pankaj Kumar, Anukul Roy, Utkarsh Singh, Bal Krishna, Sushant Mishra, Amit Kumar, Md Kounain Qureshi, Manishi, Rajandeep Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Shubh Sharma, Vikash Singh.

Railways

Suraj Ahuja, Kush Marathe, Ashutosh Sharma, Karn Sharma (c), Atal Bihari Rai, Shubham Chaubey, Shivam Chaudhary, Raj Chaudhary, Kunal Yadav, Mohammad Saif, Akshat Pandey, Akash Pandey, Ravi Singh, Rahul Sharma, Navneet Virk.

Tamil Nadu

Varun Chakaravarthy (C), N. Jagadeesan (VC), Tushar Raheja (WK), Amith Sathvik, Shahrukh Khan, Andre Siddharth, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Shivam Singh, R. Sai Kishore, M. Siddharth, T. Natarajan, Gurjapneet Singh, A. Esakkimuthu, Sonu Yadav, R. Silambarasan, Rithik Easwaran (WK).

Saurashtra

Harvik Desai, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvraj Chudasama, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Jaydev Unadkat, Ruchit Ahir, Parth Bhut, Sammar Gajjar, Krains Fuletra, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Jay Gohil, Devang Karamta, Ankur Panwar, Parswaraj Rana, Siddhant Rana, Luckyraj Vaghela.

Goa

Deepraj Gaonkar, Snehal Kauthankar, Suyash Prabhudessai (c), Lalit Yadav, Darshal Misal, Felix Alemao, Vasuki Koushik, Arjun Tendulkar, Kashyap Bakhale, Ishan Gadekar, Rajashekhar Harikant, Amulya Pandrekar, Heramb Parab, Mohit Redkar, Shubham Tari, Abhinav Tejrana, Vikash Singh.

The SMAT 2025-26 will run from Nov 26 to Dec 18, with Mumbai defending its crown under Shardul Thakur. Big names like Ruturaj Gaikwad and Suryakumar Yadav will feature, and the new format ensures more matches between top teams before the final showdown.