The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT 2026-27), India’s top domestic T20 tournament, starts on Saturday, 14 November. A total of 32 Elite teams will take part. Jharkhand enter as the defending champions after winning their first-ever title last season, where they beat Haryana by 69 runs thanks to a century from Ishan Kishan.
The 32 teams are divided into four groups of eight, with the top two from each group moving on to the Super League.
Many big stars are playing this season. Suryakumar Yadav will captain Mumbai, Sanju Samson leads Kerala, and Rajat Patidar is in charge of Madhya Pradesh. The biggest news, however, is 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who will captain Bihar in their first two games.
Here are the full squads of every team announced so far, group by group.
SMAT 2026-27 captains at a glance
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Elite A |
Karan Sharma |
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Elite A |
Jehu Anderson |
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Elite B |
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (first two matches) |
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Elite B |
Mohammad Saif |
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Elite B |
Squad not yet announced |
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Elite C |
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Elite C |
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Elite C |
Pukhraj Mann |
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Elite C |
Not yet named |
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Elite D |
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Elite D |
CV Milind |
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Elite D |
Squad not yet announced |
SMAT 2026-27 Elite Group A squads
Jharkhand (defending champions): Anukul Roy (c), Shikhar Mohan (vc), Pankaj Kumar, Robin Minz, Virat Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Amit Kumar, Sushant Mishra, Rajandeep Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Md Kounain Quraishi, Pratyush Kumar, Harsh Raj, Pratik Ranjan, Shubh Sharma
Rajasthan: Deepak Chahar (c), Manav Suthar (vc), Ajay Raj Singh, Kartik Sharma, Rahul Chahar, Ramniwas Golada, Rohan Rajbahar, Abhijeet Tomar, Himanshu Singh Rana, Honey Pratap Singh, Kunal Singh Rathore, Mahipal Lomror, Mukul Choudhary, Himanshu Nehra, Abhishek Mund
Uttar Pradesh: Karan Sharma (c), Aaradhya Yadav, Abhishek Goswami, Arnav Baliyan, Swastik Chikara, Yash Garg, Divyansh Joshi, Aryan Juyal, Kartik Tyagi, Madhav Kaushik, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohsin Khan, Sameer Rizvi, Shivam Mavi, Siddarth Yadav, Prashant Veer, Yash Dayal, Zeeshan Ansari
Karnataka (first three matches): Ravichandran Smaran (c), Abhilash Shetty, Rithesh Bhatkal, Praveen Dubey, Aneeshwar Gautam, Vidwath Kaverappa, Abhinav Manohar, Manvanth Kumar, Karun Nair, Manish Pandey, Rohan Patil, Shikhar Shetty, Krishnan Shrijith, Luvnith Sisodia, Vijaykumar Vyshak
Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Abishek Porel (wk), Shakir Gandhi (wk), Sudip Gharami, Yuvraj Keswani, Aditya Purohit, Karan Lal, Pradipta Pramanik, Sourav Halder, Prayas Ray Barman, Mohammed Shami, Mukesh Kumar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Kanishk Seth, Sayan Ghosh, Syed Irfan Aftab, Akhilesh Yadav, Rishabh Chaudhary, Shashank Singh
Baroda: Krunal Pandya (c), Atit Sheth (vc), Deepak Hooda, Shivalik Sharma, Shashwat Rawat, Amit Passi (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Bhanu Pania, Mahesh Pithiya, Parikshit Patidar, Hemant Punde, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam Dar, Dhruv B Patel, Safvan Patel. Standbys: Priyanshu Moliya, Chintal Gandhi
Chandigarh: Shivam Bhambri (c), Manan Vohra, Nehal Pajni, Arjun Azad, Sanyam Saini, Arush Bhandari, Nikhil Thakur, Bhagminder Lather, Raman Bishnoi, Nikhil Kumar, Hardik Chaudhary, Sandeep Sharma, Rohit Dhanda, Jagjeet Sandhu, Chiragvir Dhindsa
Mizoram: Jehu Anderson (c), Joseph Lalthankhuma, Kuldip Yadav, J Biakthanpuia, Lalhruaizela, F Lalmuanzuala, B Lalnunfela, Lalrempuia, Marty Lalrinhlua, Manendar Singh, Sahil Sharma, Sumit Lama, Chinmay Sutar, Khiangte Vanrotlinga
SMAT 2026-27 Elite Group B squads
Delhi: Ayush Badoni (c), Priyansh Arya (vc), Sarthak Ranjan, Yash Dhull, Ayush Doseja, Tejasvi Dahiya (wk), Anuj Rawat (wk), Himmat Singh, Mayank Rawat, Keshav Dabas, Suyash Sharma, Digvesh Rathi, Ishant Sharma, Harshit Rana, Mayank Yadav, Simarjeet Singh
Tamil Nadu: R Sai Kishore (c), Tushar Raheja, VP Amith Sathvik, N Jagadeesan (wk), B Sachin, C Andre Siddarth, S Rithik Easwaran, M Shahrukh Khan, Sunny Sandhu, R Rajkumar, T Natarajan, Gurjapneet Singh, G Kishoor, M Siddharth, Varun Chakaravarthy, V Athisayaraj Davidson
Punjab: Ramandeep Singh (c), Prabhsimran Singh, Umesh Yadav, Anmolpreet Singh, Uday Saharan, Salil Arora (wk), Sanvir Singh, Harpreet Brar, Raghu Sharma, Vishwa Pratap Singh, Vihaan Malhotra, Sahil Bhaskar, Kartik Chadda, Emanjot Singh Chahal, Sukhdeep Bajwa, Jashan Jindal, Krish Bhagat
Saurashtra: Jaydev Unadkat (c), Harvik Desai (wk), Jay Gohil, Prerak Mankad, Vishvarajsinh Jadeja, Sammar Gajjar, Ruchit Ahir, Chetan Sakariya, Parth Bhut, Harvansh Pangalia (wk), Siddhant Rana, Krains Fuletra, Yuvraj Chudasama, Luckyraj Vaghela, Devang Karamta, Ankur Panwar
Bihar (first two matches): Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (c), Suraj Kashyap (vc), Alok Kumar, Ayush Loharuka (wk), Anmol Kumar (wk), Altamash Ashraf, Param Kumar Singh, Ritwik Raj, Mayank Kumar, Raghvendra Pratap, Ashish Kumar, Vasudev Pratap Singh, Mohammad Izhar, Amod Yadav, Prashant Singh, Nawaz Khan, Himanshu Singh
Jammu and Kashmir: Shubham Khajuria (c), Qamran Iqbal, Yawer Hassan, Abdul Samad, Kawalpreet Singh, Dikshant Kundal, Rydham Sharma, Sahil Lotra, Vanshaj Sharma, Abid Mushtaq, Sunil Kumar, Yudhvir Singh, Umran Malik, Brijesh Sharma, Lone Nasir Muzaffar
Railways: Mohammad Saif (c), LR Chethan, Ravi Singh, Atal Bihari Rai, Eshaan Goyal, Jamshed Alam, Kritagya Singh, Kunal Yadav, Akshat Pandey, Pradhyumn Parikh, Mohit Raut, Garv Sangwan, Toufik Uddin Mondal, Zubair Ali
Haryana: Squad yet to be announced. Will be updated.
SMAT 2026-27 Elite Group C squads
Kerala: Sanju V Samson (c, wk), Rohan S Kunnummal, Mohammed Azharuddeen (wk), Ahammed Imran, Govind Dev D Pai, Krishna Devan R J, Vishnu Vinod (wk), Salman Nizar, Akhil Scaria, Nikhil M, Vignesh Puthur, Biju Narayanan N, Karthik B Nair, Vaisakh Chandran, Asif K M, Nidheesh M D, Sharafuddeen NM, Jalaj Saxena
Madhya Pradesh: Rajat Patidar (c), Ankush Singh, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Harsh Gawli (wk), Aniket Verma, Ritik Tada, Apoorv Dwivedi (wk), Saransh Jain, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Shivam Shukla, Shivang Kumar, Avesh Khan, Tripuresh Singh, Rahul Batham, Mangesh Yadav
Andhra: Ricky Bhui (c), Hemanth Reddy, Revanth Reddy (wk), SK Rasheed, Ashwin Hebbar, S V Rahul, M Dhanush, SDNV Prasad (wk), Saurabh Kumar, T Vijay, K V Sasikanth, K S N Raju, P Satyanarayana Raju, T Bharath, CH Stephen, Bailapudi Yeshwanth, M Ravi Kiran, Munish Varma, K P Sai Rahul
Maharashtra : Prithvi Shaw, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Arshin Kulkarni, Sahil Parakh, Rahul Tripathi, Suraj Shinde, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Tanay Sanghvi, Vicky Ostwal, Kiran Chormale, Ranjit Nikam, Pradeep Dadhe, Rushikesh Sonavne, Vivek Shelar, Hitesh Walunj, Prashant Solanki, Siddhesh Veer
Assam: Denish Das (c), Saahil Jain, Sibsankar Roy, Avinav Choudhury, Roshan Alam, Akash Sengupta, Ayushman Malakar, Mrinmoy Dutta, Mukhtar Hussain, Bishal Saha, Pradyun Saikia, Bhargab Pratim Lahkar, Ayush Agarwal, Rohit Sen, Jitumoni Kalita, Abdul Ajij Kuraishi
Himachal Pradesh (first three matches): Pukhraj Mann (c), Nehal Wadhera, Aryaman Dhaliwal, Innesh Mahajan, Ekant Sen, Arpit Guleria, Harshit Sandal, Ayush Jamwal, Jitender Rana, Hritik Kalia, Rahul Chauhan, Rohit Kumar, Mridul Surroch, Vaibhav Kalta, Vaibhav Sharma
Tripura (first four matches): Manisankar Murasingh (c), Abhijit Sarkar (vc), Bikram Kumar Das, Sridam Paul, Subham Sutradhar, Arindam Barman, Mandeep Singh, Lakshay Thareja, Bikram Debnath, Saurabh Das, Saruk Hossain, Danveer Singh, Sentu Sarkar, Arka Prabha Sinha, Viki Saha, Sandip Sarkar, Parvez Sultan, Chiranjit Paul
Puducherry (captain to be named): Pugazhendi Akash, Aman Khan, Shashank Singh, Raghav Goyal, Adil Tunda, Anugrah Latwal, Bhanu Anand, Vedant Bhardwaj, Aditya Chauhan, Gaurav Yadav, Prithvi Khanna, R Nithiyananda, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Prasad Pawar, Prannay Singh, Ramamoorthy Ragavan, Gautam Shastry, Shiva Subash, Sagar Trivedi, Sagar Udeshi, Vijai Raja
SMAT 2026-27 Elite Group D squads
Mumbai: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Divyaansh Saxena, Suved Parkar, Musheer Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Sairaj Patil, Shivam Dube, Atharva Ankolekar, Shams Mulani, Maxwell Swaminathan, Tushar Deshpande, Shardul Thakur, Mohit Avasthi, Sylvester D'Souza, Hardik Tamore (wk)
Vidarbha: Atharva Taide (c), Aman Mokhade, Danish Malewar, Shubham Dubey, R Samarth, Varun Bisht, Yash Kadam, Yash Rathod, Adhyayan Daga, Vedant Jajoo, Parth Rekhade, Nachiket Bhute, Praful Hinge, Darshan Nalkande, Mandar Ghodmare, Saurabh Dubey, Abhishek Agrawal
Hyderabad: CV Milind (c), M Abhirath Reddy (vc), Tanmay Agarwal, P Aman Rao, K Himateja, Rahul Radesh (wk), M Sai Pragnay Reddy (wk), Bhavesh Seth, Ganesh Gadugu, Tanay Thyagarajan, Pranav Varma, A Ved Reddy, CTL Rakshann Readdi, Ajay Dev Goud, Nishant Saranu, Rahul Buddhi, Y Harshit Sai. Standbys: A Vaishnav Reddy, P Sai Vikas Reddy, R Dinesh Rathod, Ashish Srivastav, G Anikethreddy
Odisha: Swastik Samal (c), Subhranshu Senapati, Om T Munde, Gaurav Choudhury, Adhitya Rout, Kartik Biswal, Abhishek Yadav, Soumya Ranjan Biswal, Aashirwad Swain, Sourav Gouda, Sarbeswar Mohanty, Soumya Ranjan Lenka, Ninad Rathva, Lalit Yadav, Debabrata Pradhan, Badal Biswal, Vageesh Sharma, Pradeep Pradhan, Vimal Kumar, Omkar Mohanty
Goa: Abhinav Tejrana (c), Suyash Prabhudessai, Deepraj Gaonkar, Azaan Thota, Manthan Khutkar, Lalit Yadav, Yash Kasvankar, Darshan Misal, Vikash Singh, Shivendra Bhujbal, Rajashekhar Harikant, Vasuki Koushik, Shubham Tari, Ruthvik Naik, Felix Alemao, Heramb Parab, Ishaan Gadekar
Chhattisgarh: Vikalp Tiwari (c), Ajay Mandal, Amandeep Khare, Aayush Pandey, Dev Aditya Singh, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Prateek Yadav, Rahul Pradhan, Rudra Dehari, Sangeet Soni, Sandeep Warrier, Shashank Chandrakar, Shubham Agarwal, Sourab Majumdar
Uttarakhand: Kunal Chandela (c), Avneesh Sudha, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Agnivesh Ayachi, Janmejay Joshi, Akash Madhwal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Aarav Mahajan, Devendra Singh Bora, Shashwat Dangwal, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Kandpal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Ravinder Negi, Sanskar Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi, Vijay Sharma
Gujarat: Squad yet to be announced. Will be updated.
Key talking points from the SMAT 2026-27 squads
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, captain at 15. The Rajasthan Royals youngster has been handed the Bihar captaincy for the first two games, with Suraj Kashyap as his deputy. Bihar open against Saurashtra on 14 November.
Suryakumar Yadav back leading Mumbai. The T20 World Cup-winning captain returns to domestic T20 cricket after losing the India T20I captaincy. He has Shivam Dube, Shardul Thakur, Sarfaraz Khan and Tushar Deshpande in a strong squad. Mumbai open against Hyderabad in Kolkata.
Hardik Pandya and Riyan Parag miss out. Hardik is not in Baroda's squad as he continues his recovery, so Krunal Pandya leads the side. Assam are without Riyan Parag, who is recovering from shoulder surgery; Denish Das captains them instead.
Mohammed Shami in Bengal's attack. Shami joins Mukesh Kumar in Bengal's 19-man squad. Abhimanyu Easwaran leads them against Karnataka in the opener.
Jharkhand without Ishan Kishan. The defending champions are led by Anukul Roy, last season's Player of the Series. Left-arm pacer Sushant Mishra, joint-highest wicket-taker last year with 22 scalps, is also in the side.
Maharashtra still to name a captain. Ruturaj Gaikwad and Prithvi Shaw headline an 18-man squad, but the MCA has not yet named a skipper.
Delhi's pace depth. Ishant Sharma, Harshit Rana, Mayank Yadav and Simarjeet Singh give Ayush Badoni one of the strongest seam attacks in the tournament.
FAQs
When does the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2026-27 start? The tournament starts on 14 November 2026.
How many teams are in the SMAT 2026-27 Elite division? 32 teams, split into four groups of eight.
Who are the defending champions? Jharkhand, who won their first SMAT title in 2025-26 by beating Haryana in the final.
Who is the youngest captain in SMAT 2026-27? Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 15, who leads Bihar in their first two matches.
Who is Mumbai's captain for SMAT 2026? Suryakumar Yadav.
Which teams have not announced their squads yet? Gujarat and Haryana had not announced squads at the time of writing. Maharashtra and Puducherry have named squads but no captain.
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