Shubman Gill’s Gujarat Titans got the diamond for 90 lakhs, 23 year old Ashok Sharma created history in SMAT.

By Samira Vishwas On Dec 17, 2025

Ashok Sharma Record In SMAT: 23 year old gun bowler Ashok Sharma of Rajasthan (Ashok Sharma) Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025 on Tuesday, 16 December (Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025) Created history by dismissing two Mumbai players in the match. It is noteworthy that now he has become the bowler taking the most wickets in a season of SMAT tournament.

Yes, that is what has happened. First of all, know that in this match held at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Ashok Sharma gave 48 runs to Mumbai in his quota of 4 overs and dismissed batsmen like Shardul Thakur and Atharva Ankolekar. With this, he completed his 22 wickets in the current season of SMAT and broke the record of Baroda player Lukman Meriwala and became the bowler who took the most wickets in a season of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

It is noteworthy that Lukman Meriwala had taken 21 wickets in 9 matches for Baroda in the year 2013/14 season and had created this great record. Ashok Sharma has now made this amazing record in his name by taking 22 wickets in 10 matches for Rajasthan in SMAT 2025. He is the number-1 bowler of the current season, after him in this list is Anshul Kamboj of Haryana, who has taken 20 wickets in 10 matches.

Gujarat Titans got the diamond: Gujarat Titans, captained by Shubman Gill, have found the diamond for the upcoming IPL season in the form of 23-year-old Ashok Sharma, who was bought by the GT franchise for Rs 90 lakh in the mini auction. Let us tell you that apart from Gujarat Titans, on the auction table, champion teams like Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals also wanted to buy Ashok Sharma, due to which the first bid on him, which started at Rs 30 lakh, reached Rs 90 lakh and finally Gujarat Titans made him their share at this amount.

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With the wicket of Mumbai’s Atharva Ankolekar, Rajasthan pacer Ashok Sharma set the record for most wickets in a single Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy season, claiming 22 wickets 👏
Sharma surpassed Baroda pacer Lukman Meriwala’s tally of 21 wickets set… pic.twitter.com/ivGQ60O8PK
— BCCI Domestic (@BCCIDomestic) December 16, 2025

The situation of the match was like this: In this SMAT match, Mumbai team won the toss and chose to bowl first, after which Rajasthan team scored 216 runs losing 4 wickets in 20 overs on the basis of brilliant half-centuries by Mukul Chaudhary (54*) and Deepak Hooda (51). In response, Sarfaraz Khan scored 73 runs on just 22 balls for Mumbai, while Ajinkya Rahane played an unbeaten inning of 72 runs on 41 balls. On the basis of this, Mumbai achieved the target of 217 runs in 18.1 overs and won this exciting match by 3 wickets in the end.