Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2019-20, most runs, wickets after November 12: Meriwala joins Nalkande at top, Padikkal extends lead

Devdutt Padikkal’s terrific run in the 2019-20 Syed Mushtaq Ali continued. His scores – 53*, 5, 122*, 75 – have now helped him secure a 45-run lead over others in the tournament. Padikkal is only 19, and these are the first four T20 innings of his career. Chhattisgarh’s Shashank Chandrakar is the only other batsman to have crossed the 200-run mark.

Player	Team	R	Ave	SR	100	50
Devdutt Padikkal	Karnataka	255	127.50	182.1	1	2
Shashank Chandrakar	Chhatisgarh	210	70.00	164.1	0	2
Ravi Chauhan	Services	192	64.00	139.1	0	3
Taruwar Kohli	Mizoram	184	61.33	113.6	0	2
Ruturaj Gaikwad	Maharashtra	183	45.75	160.5	0	2
Shivam Bhambri	Chandigarh	178	44.50	153.4	1	0
Harpreet Singh	Chhatisgarh	176	88.00	177.8	0	2
Tanmay Srivastava	Uttarakhand	168	56.00	124.4	0	1
Jay Bista	Mumbai	164	54.67	172.6	0	2
Suryakumar Yadav	Mumbai	158	158.00	183.7	0	2

Darshan Nalkande (2-0-27-1) continued to head the wickets table, though Lukman Meriwala (4-0-22-3) caught up with him. However, Nalkande’s average and economy are both superior to Meriwala’s. The others are 3 wickets behind.

Player	Team	W	Ave	Econ	4WI
Darshan Nalkande	Vidarbha	11	7.72	6.21	1
Lukman Meriwala	Baroda	11	9.63	6.62	1
Ajay Mandal	Chhattisgarh	8	5.75	5.11	0
Pankaj Rao	Chhattisgarh	8	6.00	4.57	0
Sandeep Sharma	Punjab	8	6.75	3.85	1
Shreyas Gopal	Karnataka	8	10.87	6.69	1
Mehdi Hasan	Hyderabad	8	11.62	6.20	0
Mohammed Siraj	Hyderabad	8	11.87	6.40	0
Umar Nazir	Jammu and Kashmir	7	3.40	4.25	1
Yash Thakur	Vidarbha	7	9.28	4.64	1
Ankit Rajpoot	Uttar Pradesh	7	9.28	8.12	1
Puneet Datey	Chhattisgarh	7	10.42	5.61	0
Tushar Deshpande	Mumbai	7	14.00	6.75	0
Gurinder Singh	Chandigarh	7	14.57	7.55	0