Special Correspondent
There comes a point when silence itself becomes evidence.
For decades, the Hyderabad Cricket Association has hidden behind one towering credential — that it is among the oldest cricket bodies in India, a founding-era institution that predates Independence and helped shape Indian cricket itself. That legacy once commanded respect. Today, critics allege it has become a shield behind which corruption, nepotism, electoral manipulation, cartel politics, and administrative lawlessness have flourished unchecked.
The uncomfortable question now confronting Telangana cricket is no longer whether the system is sick. The question is far more explosive:
Who is telling the truth — HCA or Telangana Cricket Association?
And more importantly, why are India’s cricketing and legal institutions seemingly unwilling to answer that question decisively?
Because if even half the allegations now being publicly levelled by TCA General Secretary Guruva Reddy Dharam are true, Telangana cricket is not merely facing administrative disorder. It is staring at a full-blown governance collapse.
The Empire of Untouchability
The HCA’s defenders routinely invoke history and prestige. But institutions are not judged by age alone. They are judged by conduct.
An old building with termites is still collapsing.
For years, allegations have followed HCA like a permanent shadow — factional wars, opaque selections, benami clubs, manipulated voting structures, ticket scams, misuse of funds, district neglect, and systematic exclusion of deserving rural cricketers. Yet, despite repeated controversies, almost nothing fundamentally changes.
Why?
Because Indian cricket administration operates on a dangerous culture of selective blindness.
The powerful survive not because allegations are disproved, but because institutions move painfully slowly. Cases linger. Files gather dust. Committees are formed. Headlines fade. Administrators regroup. The same power brokers return through different doors. Incidentally, even judiciary too cannot escape from its responsibility, especially in HCA case. Despite the Supreme Court and High Court appointed Ombudsman, nothing much change. Reasons, those who in black robes too needs to introspect and do justice before faith even in them get evaporated.
And Telangana cricket, according to critics, has become one of the worst examples of this cycle.
TCA’s Central Allegation: Cricket Captured by a Cartel
The TCA is not making vague accusations whispered in corridors. It is publicly alleging fraud, forgery, manipulation of electoral rolls, unconstitutional committees, illegal financial decisions, and attempts to commercially exploit Telangana cricket through the proposed TG20 league without mandatory approvals.
That is not routine cricket politics.
That is a direct allegation that the system itself has been hijacked.
The TCA has now escalated matters dramatically by demanding CID and even CBI intervention into what it describes as a “duplicate society, rigged elections, and TG20 auction scam.”
The allegations become even more serious because they emerge while HCA is already under investigation in Crime No. 02/2025, where arrests were reportedly made in July 2025.
One would assume that an association already under the scanner of investigative agencies and judicial supervision would proceed cautiously.
Instead, TCA alleges the exact opposite.
According to them, HCA has continued functioning “like an outlaw,” bulldozing decisions despite judicial oversight and ongoing investigations.
If true, that is extraordinary.
The Oxford Blues Bombshell
Among the most explosive allegations is the controversy surrounding Oxford Blues Cricket Club.
TCA claims two societies with identical names exist separately under different registrar jurisdictions — one in Ranga Reddy and another in Hyderabad.
That is not a technical discrepancy. That raises terrifying questions.
How did two entities with the same identity exist simultaneously?
Who benefited?
Was this duplication allegedly used to manipulate HCA electoral structures?
Was cricket administration effectively captured through forged or substituted club identities?
These are not allegations that can be brushed aside with press statements or social media outrage.
If documentary evidence exists, investigators must answer whether the Telangana cricket elections themselves were compromised.
Even more startling is TCA’s allegation that M. Jeevan Reddy became a club office bearer only in November 2025 and then, within four months, rose to become HCA Honorary Secretary through what critics describe as an “unnatural and suspicious” process.
TCA alleges these points toward impersonation, forgery, fraudulent substitution, and election engineering.
If false, HCA should immediately place every relevant record into the public domain and demolish the allegations conclusively.
If true, the implications are devastating. (To be concluded)
disgusting disgusting disgusting. that is what one say about Hyderabad Cricket Association. yet another damaging report. yes hca should say, yes or no to the latest allegations