Mumbai defeated Madhya Pradesh by 5 wickets in the final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024 thanks to the important innings of Suryakumar Yadav and Ajinkya Rahane. With this defeat, Madhya Pradesh's dream of winning the trophy for the first time has also been shattered. Earlier in 2010-11, Madhya Pradesh reached the final. However, then Bengal defeated Madhya Pradesh in the final. At the same time, Mumbai has won the trophy for the second time. Earlier, Mumbai had lifted the trophy in 2022 itself.
In this match played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Madhya Pradesh, who came to bat first after losing the toss, scored 174 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. Captain Rajat Patidar played the highest innings of 81 runs. In reply, Mumbai achieved the target by losing 5 wickets in 17.5 overs.
Madhya Pradesh, who came to bat first, had a bad start. Arpit Gaud scored 3 and Harsh Gawli scored 2 runs. Apart from them, Harpreet Singh Bhatia scored 15, Subhranshu Senapati scored 23, Venkatesh Iyer scored 17, Rahul Batham scored 19 runs. Tripuresh Singh did not even open his account. Shivam Shukla was run out on a score of 1. Captain Rajat Patidar remained unbeaten after scoring 81 runs in 40 balls. During this, he hit 6 fours and 6 sixes.
