6 sixes-6 fours, 81 runs in 40 balls… Virat’s friend lost the final to Rahane-Iyer-Surya even after playing the captaincy innings.



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New Delhi. 81 unbeaten runs in 40 balls in the title match. That too when the team was struggling after losing 54 wickets. Rajat Patidar could hardly have done more than this for his team. Madhya Pradesh captain played an excellent innings against Mumbai in the final of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. But Rajat Patidar was left alone in front of the team of Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey, Prithvi Shaw. Even his captaincy innings could not make Madhya Pradesh champion. Mumbai won the title by defeating Madhya Pradesh by 5 wickets. Mumbai has won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy for the second time. 21 year old Suryansh Hegde was the player of the match. Madhya Pradesh has lost the final for the second time.

The final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament between Madhya Pradesh and Mumbai was played at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday. This is the same ground where Rajat Patidar plays half of his matches in IPL. Rajat Patidar was one of the three players who were retained by Royal Challengers Bangalore. This trusted player of Virat Kohli’s team RCB fulfilled the trust of his team well in the final of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He batted firmly at one end against Mumbai, when wickets kept falling from the other end.

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Rajat gave a score worth fighting for
Madhya Pradesh scored 174 runs for 8 wickets thanks to the strong batting of Rajat Patidar. How big a role Rajat Patidar played in taking Madhya Pradesh to this point can be gauged from the fact that no other batsman of the team could score even 25 runs. Shubhranshu Senapati (23) was the second top scorer of the team. Rahul Batham scored 19, Venkatesh Iyer scored 17 and Harpreet Singh scored 15 runs.

21 year old Suryansh was the hero of victory
Almost every batsman scored runs for the Mumbai team chasing the target. Suryakumar Yadav (48) was the top scorer of the team, but Suryansh Shedge proved to be the real hero of the match. Shedge played an unbeaten inning of 36 runs when Mumbai had lost 5 wickets for 129 runs. 21 year old Suryansh Shedge played a stormy inning of 36 runs in just 16 balls. Before this, Ajinkya Rahane scored 37 runs. Captain Ajinkya Rahane and Atharva Ankolkar scored 16 runs each, while Prithvi Shaw was out after scoring 10 runs and Shivam Dubey was out after scoring 9 runs.

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