Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Baroda and MP book place into the semis

The teams of Baroda and Madhya Pradesh have reached the semi-finals of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024/25 on Wednesday.

In the first semi-final, MP defeated Saurashtra by 7 wickets, while in the second quarter-final match, Baroda, captained by Krunal Pandya, defeated Bengal by 41 runs.

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Venkatesh Iyer was given the Player of The Match

All four quarter-final matches were held in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on Wednesday. In the first match, MP defeated Saurashtra by 7 wickets.

Batting first, Saurashtra scored 173 runs. In reply, MP won the match by losing 3 wickets with 4 balls remaining. For Madhya Pradesh, Venkatesh Iyer took 2 wickets and also scored 38 runs. Player of the Match Venkatesh ended on 38 not out off 33 deliveries with the bat, after taking 2 for 23 from three overs with the ball. Harpreet, on the other end, batted more aggressively in his nine-ball cameo to finish on 22 not out to seal the game for MP.

Bengal faced Baroda in the second QF 

Bengal faced Baroda in the second QF match. Batting first, Baroda scored 172 runs for 7 wickets. From it's side, Shashwat Rawat scored the maximum 40 runs. Captain Krunal Pandya (7) and Hardik Pandya (10) could not do anything special in batting.

While chasing the target of 173 runs set by Baroda, Bengal collapsed for 131 runs in 18 overs. Mohammed Shami took 2 wickets for 43 runs in a spell of 4 overs for his team. Kanishk Seth and Pradipta Pramanik also got two wickets each.

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Hardik Pandya took 3 wickets

From Bengals' side, Shahbaz Ahmed scored the maximum 55 runs. Ritwik Roy Chowdhury (29) and Abhishek Porel (22) also played good innings, but the rest of the batsmen could not even touch the 10-run mark. 

As a result, the entire team was limited to 18 overs. Hardik Pandya, Lukman Meriwala and Atit Sheth took 3 wickets each.