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{{Short description|Cricket tournament}}
{{Infobox cricket tournament
| name = 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group A
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| fromdate = 2 January 2016
| todate = 10 January 2016
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| administrator = [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]]
| cricket format = [[Twenty20 cricket]]
| tournament format = [[Round-robin tournament|Round robin]]
| host = Vidarbha
| champions = 
| count = 
| participants = 7 
| matches = 21
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{{2015–16 Indian domestic cricket season}}

'''2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy''' is the seventh season of the [[Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy]], a [[Twenty20 cricket|Twenty20]] cricket tournament in India. It is contested by 27 domestic cricket teams of India.<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/series/901113.html Series home Espncricinfo]</ref> Group A consisted of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Hyderabad, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Vidarbha.

==Round 1==
{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 2 January 2016
| team1 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| score1 = 185/4 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| score2 = 124 (16.2 overs)
| result = Bengal won by 61 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902089.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = [[Pramod Chandila]] (Bengal); [[Jaweed Ali]], [[Mohammed Siraj]] and [[Kolla Sumanth]] (Hyderabad) all made their T20 debuts.
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 2 January 2016
| team1 = [[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]
| score1 = 151/6 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| score2 = 152/5 (19.3 overs)
| result = Himachal Pradesh won by 5 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902087.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = 
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 2 January 2016
| team1 = [[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]]
| score1 = 113 (19.1 overs)
| team2 = [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]
| score2 = 116/1 (16 overs)
| result = Tamil Nadu won by 9 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902091.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = [[Rahul Dagar]], [[Mohit Hooda]], [[Rohit Sharma (cricketer, born 1993)|Rohit Sharma]] (Haryana); [[Murugan Ashwin]] and [[Jagatheesan Kousik]] (Tamil Nadu) all made their T20 debuts.
}}

==Round 2==
{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 3 January 2016
| team1 = [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]
| score1 = 151/8 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| score2 = 82 (15.5 overs)
| result = Tamil Nadu won by 69 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902115.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = 
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 3 January 2016
| team1 = [[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]
| score1 = 174/7 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Vidarbha cricket team|Vidarbha]]
| score2 = 114 (18.4 overs)
| result = Gujarat won by 60 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902111.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = [[Rajneesh Gurbani]] and [[Akshay Karnewar]] (Vidarbha) both made their T20 debuts.
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 3 January 2016
| team1 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| score1 = 140/9 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| score2 = 126/9 (20 overs)
| result = Hyderabad won by 14 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902113.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = 
}}

==Round 3==
{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 4 January 2016
| team1 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| score1 = 131/7 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]
| score2 = 134/7 (19.3 overs)
| result = Gujarat won by 3 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902137.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = [[Vishal Sharma (Hyderabad cricketer)|Vishal Sharma]] (Hyderabad) made his T20 debut.
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 4 January 2016
| team1 = [[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]]
| score1 = 136/8 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Vidarbha cricket team|Vidarbha]]
| score2 = 140/2 (19.3 overs)
| result = Vidarbha won by 8 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902135.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = 
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 4 January 2016
| team1 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| score1 = 154/6 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| score2 = 152/3 (20 overs)
| result = Bengal won by 2 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902139.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = [[Anurag Tiwari]] (Bengal) made his T20 debut.
}}

==Round 4==
{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 6 January 2016
| team1 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| score1 = 101 (19.1 overs)
| team2 = [[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]
| score2 = 104/2 (11.5 overs)
| result = Gujarat won by 8 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902161.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = [[Mukesh Kumar (cricketer)|Mukesh Kumar]] (Bengal) and [[Raxlee Taylor]] (Gujarat) both made their T20 debuts.
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 6 January 2016
| team1 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| score1 = 173/8 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]]
| score2 = 138/7 (20 overs)
| result = Hyderabad won by 35 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902159.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = [[Chaitanya Bishnoi]] (Haryana) and [[Annabathula Akash]] (Hyderabad) both made their T20 debuts.
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 6 January 2016
| team1 = [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]
| score1 = 150/8 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Vidarbha cricket team|Vidarbha]]
| score2 = 154/3 (18.3 overs)
| result = Vidarbha won by 7 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902163.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = 
}}

==Round 5==
{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 7 January 2016
| team1 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| score1 = 147/5 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Vidarbha cricket team|Vidarbha]]
| score2 = 151/6 (19.2 overs)
| result = Vidarbha won by 4 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902183.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = 
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 7 January 2016
| team1 = [[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]
| score1 = 105 (19.4 overs)
| team2 = [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]
| score2 = 111/1 (12.5 overs)
| result = Tamil Nadu won by 9 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902185.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = 
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 7 January 2016
| team1 = [[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]]
| score1 = 122/9 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| score2 = 123/8 (19.2 overs)
| result = Himachal Pradesh won by 2 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902187.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = [[Poonish Mehta]] (Haryana) made his T20 debut.
}}

==Round 6==
{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 9 January 2016
| team1 = [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]
| score1 = 168/6 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| score2 = 173/4 (16.5 overs)
| result = Himachal Pradesh won by 6 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902211.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = [[Bharath Shankar]] (Tamil Nadu) made his T20 debut.
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 9 January 2016
| team1 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| score1 = 139/7 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Vidarbha cricket team|Vidarbha]]
| score2 = 142/5 (20 overs)
| result = Vidarbha won by 5 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902207.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = 
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 9 January 2016
| team1 = [[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]]
| score1 = 127/3 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| score2 = 110/8 (20 overs)
| result = Haryana won by 17 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902209.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = 
}}

==Round 7==
{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 10 January 2016
| team1 = [[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]]
| score1 = 95 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]
| score2 = 99/1 (6.4 overs)
| result = Gujarat won by 9 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/902225.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = [[Kuldeep Ghadvi]] (Gujarat) and [[Shamsher Yadav]] (Haryana) both made their T20 debuts.
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 10 January 2016
| team1 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| score1 = 140/8 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]
| score2 = 141/6 (18.4 overs)
| result = Tamil Nadu won by 4 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/902229.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = [[Himalay Agarwal]], [[Mehdi Hasan (cricketer, born 1990)|Mehdi Hassan]] (Hyderabad) and [[Abhishek Tanwar]] (Tamil Nadu) all made their T20 debuts.
}}
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{{Limited Overs Matches
| date = 10 January 2016
| team1 = [[Vidarbha cricket team|Vidarbha]]
| score1 = 183/6 (20 overs)
| team2 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| score2 = 156 (19.5 overs)
| result = Vidarbha won by 27 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/902227.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground]], [[Nagpur]]
| notes = 
}}

==References==
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