Jharkhand claim maiden T20 title

12 Number of teams to have won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, with Jharkhand being the latest. Baroda, Gujarat, Karnataka, and Mumbai have won the title twice, while Tamil Nadu have won three times.

Thursday was Jharkhand’s maiden appearance in a final in the competition’s history. They had won a senior domestic title only once before – the Vijay Hazare Trophy in the 2010-11 season.

262 for 3 Jharkhand’s total against Haryana in the final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025-26. It is the highest total by any team in the final of any T20 tournament, bettering Italy’s 244 for 4 against Romania in 2024, during the Group A final of the Sub-Regional Europe Qualifier.

Jharkhand’s total is also the second-highest by any team in a T20 playoff or knockout game, behind only Somerset’s 265 for 5 against Derbyshire in the quarter-final of the 2022 T20 Blast.

Jharkhand’s 262 for 3 against Haryana is their highest total in T20s. They went past the 200-run mark on five occasions in this tournament, the second-most in a single edition of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Punjab’s seven 200-plus totals in this tournament are the most by any team. Jharkhand had only three 200-plus totals before the tournament, and one of their five 200-plus totals in their victorious campaign turned out to be the highest successful chase in the tournament’s history.

Ishan Kishan became only the second batter to score a hundred in a final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Anmolpreet Singh was the first, having scored 113 for Punjab against Baroda in the final of the 2023-24 season.

Kishan’s hundred came in only 45 balls, the third-fastest by any batter in a tournament final in men’s T20s. Mitchell Owen’s hundred in the final of the 2024-25 Big Bash League came off just 39 balls, while Austria’s Karanbir Singh scored a 44-ball ton against Romania in the 2025 Budapest Cup.

5 Hundreds for Kishan in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, the joint-most by any batter alongside Abhishek Sharma.

All five of Kishan’s hundreds were scored as the wicketkeeper. Only Quinton de Kock (seven) has scored more hundreds as a keeper in men’s T20s. Kishan was the captain on four of these five occasions; no other man has more than two T20 hundreds as a keeper-captain.