The final match of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is being played between the teams of Mumbai led by Shreyas Iyer and Madhya Pradesh led by Rajat Patidar. In this important match being played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Mumbai won the toss and decided to bowl first. This decision of captain Shreyas Iyer proved to be right to some extent, but none of the bowlers of his team could stop Rajat Patidar. Rajat Patidar played a captaincy innings in this big match and took the team to the fighting total.

Rajat Patidar played captaincy innings

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024 has been quite memorable for Rajat Patidar as a batsman. He scored important runs for the team in almost every match. He also played a strong innings for his team in the Mumbai final. When Patidar came to bat, Madhya Pradesh had lost 3 wickets for 48 runs. The team looked to be in trouble, but as soon as they arrived they hit fours and sixes. Patidar scored unbeaten 81 runs in 40 balls at a strike rate of 202.50.

Rajat Patidar hit 6 fours and 6 sixes in this innings. That means he scored 60 runs out of 81 with fours and sixes only. This was also Rajat Patidar's 5th half-century in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024. Patidar completed his half-century in just 28 balls during this innings. With this, Patidar also made the record of playing the biggest innings as a captain in the final of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Before Patidar, in the year 2019, Manish Pandey had played an unbeaten inning of 60 runs.

Madhya Pradesh put 174 runs on the board

Due to this captaincy innings of Rajat Patidar, Madhya Pradesh team managed to score 174 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. Apart from Patidar, Subhranshu Senapati scored 23 runs on 17 balls. Whereas, Venkatesh Iyer contributed 17 runs and Rahul Batham contributed 19 runs. On the other hand, Shardul Thakur and Royston Dias took maximum 2-2 wickets for Mumbai.