Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: IPL 2021 stars who will play in the knockout stage
The Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad will host the knock out games of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy has moved into the knockout stages and the fixtures of the quarter-final stage match-ups are out. The Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad will host the knock out games.
In the fixture sent by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to the competing teams, Karnataka will face Punjab in the first quarter-final. The second quarter-final will be played between Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh on the same day.
Haryana and Baroda will lock horns for the third knockout game while Bihar and Rajasthan will play the last quarter-final match on the same day.
Bihar, Haryana, Baroda, Punjab and Tamil Nadu have won their all five matches in the tournament to qualify for the quarterfinals while Himachal, Karnataka and Rajasthan just lost one game out of their five fixtures to book a spot in the quarter-finals.
Mumbai's exit came as one of the biggest shocks of the ongoing Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy as they suffered three back-to-back defeats.
So as the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy quarterfinals near, a look at some Indian Premier League (IPL) stars that will feature in the knockout stage.
Elite Group A topper: Punjab
Elite Group B topper:: Tamil Nadu
Elite Group C topper: Baroda
Elite Group D topper: Rajasthan
Elite Group E topper: Haryana
Plate Topper: Bihar
Across the Elite two best performers: Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka both with 16 points.
Punjab:
Sandeep Sharma, Prabhsimran Singh, Mayank Markande
Tamil Nadu:
Dinesh Karthik, Murugan Ashwin, Narayan Jagdeeshan
Baroda:
Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Kedar Devdhar
Rajasthan:
Rahul Chahar, Ravi Bishnoi, Deepak Chahar
Haryana:
Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Tewatia, Mohit Sharma
Karnataka:
Devdutt Padikkal, Karun Nair, Shreyas Gopal
January 26, Tuesday
Quarter-final 1: Karnataka vs Punjab, 12:00 PM
Quarter-final 2: Tamil Nadu vs Himachal Pradesh, 7:00 PM
January 27, Wednesday
Quarter-final 3: Haryana vs Baroda, 12:00 PM
Quarter-final 4: Bihar vs Rajasthan, 7:00 PM
January 29, Friday
Semi-final 1: Winner of Quarter-final 2 vs Winner of Quarter-final 4, 12:00 PM
Semi-final 2: Winner of Quarter-final 1 vs Winner of Quarter-final 3, 7:00 PM
January 31, Sunday
Final: Winner SF1 vs Winner SF2, 7:00 PM
All the match of the knockout stages of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2021 will be telecasted on the Star Sports Network and Hotstar.
Rajasthan: Bharat Sharma (w), Ankit Lamba, Rajesh Bishnoi, Ashok Menaria (c), Arjit Gupta, Mahipal Lomror, Tanveer-Ul-Haq, Rahul Chahar, Ravi Bishnoi, Aniket Choudhary, Khaleel Ahmed, Deepak Chahar, Aditya Garhwal, Manender Narender Singh, Chandrapal Singh, Salman Khan, Yash Kothari, Akash Singh, Rajat Choudhary.
Bihar: Babul Kumar, Mangal Mahrour, Vikash Yadav, Yashasvi Rishav, Ashutosh Aman (c), Shasheem Rathour, Samar Quadri, Mohit Kumar (w), MD Rahmatullah, Vikash Ranjan, Sachin Kumar, S Gani, Amod Yadav, Harsh Raj, Shashi Anand, Vibhooti Bhaskar, Suraj Kashyap, Rahul Kumar, Vikash Patel, Anuj Raj, Apurva Anand.
Karnataka: Devdutt Padikkal, Rohan Kadam, Karun Nair (c), Krishnamurthy Siddharth, Sharath BR (w), Krishnappa Gowtham, Shreyas Gopal, Manoj S Bhandage, Prasidh Krishna, Praveen Dubey, Abhimanyu Mithun, Pavan Deshpande, V Koushik, Ronit More, Aniruddha Joshi, Jagadeesha Suchith, Prateek Jain, Darshan MB, KL Shrijith, Shubhang Hegde.
Punjab: Mandeep Singh (c), Anmolpreet Singh, Simran Singh (w), Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Abhishek Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma, Barinder Sran, Baltej Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Gitansh Khera, Karan Kaila, Anmol Malhotra, Ramandeep Singh, Mayank Markande, Sanvir Singh, Rohan Marwaha.
Tamil Nadu: Hari Nishanth, N Jagadeesan, Arun Karthik, Shahrukh Khan, Baba Aparajith, Dinesh Karthik (w/c), M Mohammed, Murugan Ashwin, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Aswin Crist, Sandeep Warrier, Vijay Shankar, Baba Indrajith, Laxmesha Suryaprakash, Jagatheesan Kousik, Jaganath Sinivas, Sonu Yadav, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Manimaran Siddharth, G Periyaswamy.
Himachal Pradesh: RI Thakur (c), Amit Kumar, Ekant Sen, Prashant Chopra (w), Rishi Dhawan, Pankaj Jaiswal, Nitin Sharma, Kanwar Abhinay Singh, Ankush Bedi, Abhimanyu Rana, Mayank Dagar, Ayush Jamwal, Arpit Guleria, Vaibhav Arora, Akash Vashist
Baroda: Karthik Kakade, Vishnu Solanki, Kedar Devdhar(w), Ninad Rathva, Krunal Pandya(c), Bhargav Bhatt, Lukman Meriwala, Atit Sheth, Babashafi Pathan, Pratik Keshavlal Ghodadra, Dhruv Patel, Mohit Mongia, Pratyush Kumar, Soyeb Sopariya, Abhimanyu Rajput.
Haryana: Arun Chaprana, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Himanshu Rana, Shivam Chauhan, Yashu Sharma, Rohit Parmod Sharma (w), Rahul Tewatia, Sumit Kumar, Jayant Yadav, Mohit Sharma (c), Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Ashish Hooda, Shubham Rohilla, Sanjay Pahal, Pramod Chandila, Guntashveer Singh, Ajit Chahal, Aman Kumar, Tinu Kundu, Ankit Kumar, Kapil Hooda, Nitin Saini.