Mayank Yadav took five wickets in three overs, and Suryakumar made 60 off 21 on the Mushtaq Ali Trophy’s first day
Mayank Yadav took 5 for 14 as Delhi beat Jammu and Kashmir by 103 runs, three days before IPL teams hand in their retention lists. In Kolkata, Suryakumar Yadav made 60 not out off 21 in Mumbai’s win over Hyderabad.
Nov 14, 2026
Mayank Yadav bowled three overs against Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday and took five wickets in them. He finished with 5 for 14, and Delhi bowled J&K out for 140 to win by 103 runs on the first day of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
Delhi had won the toss and made 243 for 6 in Indore. Priyansh Arya hit 58 off 29 at the top, Tejasvi Dahiya made 46 off 24, and Himmat Singh finished things with 63 not out off 26. J&K’s reply had one batter in it. Yawer Hassan made 70 off 61, and nobody else got past 23.
Mayank’s five were Shubham Khajuria, the J&K captain, and Brijesh Sharma, both bowled, plus Vivrant Sharma, Abdul Samad and Rydham Sharma, all caught.
Two years of back trouble
For two years the story with Mayank was his back. He played just two games for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2025 before another back injury ended his season, and he had surgery after it. He came back for India in July, taking 2 for 18 in the first T20I against Zimbabwe in Harare, his first international since October 2024.
He went to New Zealand with the T20I squad and played two games, the first T20I and the fourth at Eden Park on 30 October. He took 3 for 48 on the night New Zealand made a record 259. Saturday was a much easier day out, against a much weaker batting side, but five wickets in 18 legal balls is still five wickets in 18 legal balls.
The timing matters. IPL franchises have until 17 November to hand in their retention lists, and the mini-auction is in Goa on 16 December. A fit Mayank bowling at full speed is worth a lot to whoever has him, and this week is when the teams decide who they keep.
Suryakumar starts with 60 off 21
In Kolkata, Suryakumar Yadav’s first game as Mumbai’s captain this season lasted 13.1 overs of batting. Hyderabad were bowled out for 172, with Maxwell Swaminathan taking 3 for 23, and Mumbai knocked the runs off for three wickets. Musheer Khan made 51 off 24, and Suryakumar finished on 60 not out off 21 balls with six fours and five sixes.
He was lifting the T20 World Cup on 8 March. By June he had lost the India T20I captaincy to Shreyas Iyer and his place in the squad, and in October Mumbai left him out of their Ranji Trophy opener. I don’t think one innings against Hyderabad changes any of that. It does remind everyone what he does in this format.
Sooryavanshi’s Bihar lose, Gujarat reach 250
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s first game as Bihar captain, at 15, went badly. He made 18 off 12 before Chetan Sakariya caught and bowled him, Bihar reached only 137 for 9, and Saurashtra won by five wickets with 21 balls left.
Gujarat made the biggest total of the day, 250 for 9 against Odisha, with Khilan Patel hitting 84 off 29 and eight sixes. Odisha got to 229 for 8 and lost by 21 runs. In Mumbai, Karnataka beat Bengal by 19 runs.