Ishan Kishan and his team broke records.
Jharkhand cricket team, captained by Ishan Kishan, continued its excellent performance in the finals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy 2025. Jharkhand, which has already won 9 consecutive matches in this tournament, showed such power with its bat in the final that some special records of the tournament were broken. In the final match against Haryana, Jharkhand made a new record of the highest score in the history of this tournament. Jharkhand's batsmen including captain Ishan Kishan hit a lot of fours and sixes in the match and broke Punjab's record.
Jharkhand batted first in this final played on Thursday 18th December in Pune. Captain himself for the team Ishaan Kishan Played the most explosive innings and scored a brilliant century in just 45 balls. Ishaan scored 101 runs in 49 balls, hitting 10 sixes and 6 fours. Not only Ishaan, his 21 year old young teammate Kumar Kushagra also played a stormy innings and scored 81 runs in just 38 balls, which included 8 fours and 5 sixes.
But not only these two, but Anukul Roy and Robin Minz also hit a lot of fours and sixes. Roy scored 40 runs in 20 balls, which included 3 fours and 2 sixes. Whereas Minz scored 31 runs in 14 balls and during this he hit 3 sixes. Overall, these 4 batsmen together hit 20 sixes and 17 fours. On the basis of these innings, Jharkhand scored 262 runs in 20 overs after losing 3 wickets. This is a new record for the highest score in the final of Mushtaq Ali Trophy. With this explosive batting, Jharkhand broke the record of Punjab, which had scored 223 runs against Baroda in the 2023 final itself.
Not only the team, but captain Ishaan personally also set records. He became the first captain to score a century in the final of Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Before him, only one century had been scored in the final of this tournament, which was scored by Anmolpreet Singh only in 2023. But Ishan Kishan became the first player to do this feat as a captain. Apart from this, he also equaled the record of most centuries in the history of the tournament. This was Ishaan's 5th century in his SMAT career and he equaled Abhishek Sharma.
