Uttar Pradesh clinched their maiden
Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy with a thumping 38 run win over two time champions
Baroda in the final played under lights at the Wankhede Stadium. Displaying all
round display, UP pulled out all stops even overcoming the loss of the toss, to
put it across the champions of 2011-12 and 2013-14 and win the summit clash in
front of a crowd of 5000 spectators.
This was UP ninth straight win in
the tournament, including five in the preliminary league phase and three more
in the super league stage. UP built their innings around opener Prashant Gupta
49 in 41 balls and Captain Suresh Raina unbeaten 47 in 37 balls to post a
challenging score of 163 for 7. In reply, Baroda lost half their side for 84
and then was stopped at 125 for 7 wickets.
Medium pacer Ankit Rajpoot picked
up an early wicket in his opening spell and then came back to snap up two more
to end up his figures of 3 for 30. Fellow medium pacer Amit Mishra grabbed 2
for 33. Yusuf Pathan, known for his big hitting prowess, flopped miserably once
again by crawling to 14 off 27 balls. Captain Irfan Pathan came in at No 7 but
by that stage the asking rate had climbed beyond 12 per over.
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