Special Correspondent A potentially dangerous structure has been standing for years in the heart of Hyderabad’s First Phase of Journalists’ Colony at Banjara Hills, despite a written complaint drawing the authorities’ attention to its alleged dilapidated condition as far back as 2021. The disturbing question now is not merely why the structure continues to stand,…
Special Correspondent The reported exclusion of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) from the electoral roll for the forthcoming BCCI Annual General Meeting on September 18 has added yet another layer to an institution already battling prolonged internal disputes, litigation and administrative uncertainty. Coming at a time when the HCA is struggling to present a united…
Special Correspondent The latest Telangana High Court order is significant — but perhaps not for the reasons being claimed by either side When the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) enters a courtroom, it is rarely just another legal proceeding. Given the association’s long history of disputes, competing claims, administrative controversies and interventions by courts and cricketing…
MS Shanker The removal of Konda Surekha from the Telangana Cabinet may, on the surface, appear to be a decisive assertion of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s authority over the State Congress. But beneath that show of command lies a more uncomfortable political question: has the Chief Minister actually consolidated the Congress, or merely pushed…
(…..Continued) Part I raised a straightforward but deeply uncomfortable question: how can HCA’s constitutional disqualification provisions remain effectively dormant for years when criminal cases involving serving and former office-bearers have continued through prolonged litigation? The answer may lie entirely in the normal pace of the judicial process. But there is another episode that makes it…
Special Correspondent Should a person named as an accused in a corruption case be allowed to vote in Hyderabad Cricket Association elections? Should he be permitted to contest those elections — and even win? And, having won, should he be allowed to occupy a position of authority in an institution whose own constitution contains a…
Special Correspondent Indian cricket may be flourishing on the field, but the picture off it is becoming increasingly uncomfortable. The latest controversy surrounding the Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) and the continuing turmoil in the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) may appear, on the surface, to be two separate disputes. In reality, they expose a strikingly similar…
MS Shanker The question may sound provocative, even uncomfortable. But recent developments in the administration of state cricket associations make it impossible to ignore: are elected cricket bodies gradually surrendering their autonomy to the judiciary because they have repeatedly failed to govern themselves? The danger is not that courts intervene when there is serious illegality,…
Special Correspondent How much longer is Hyderabad cricket expected to live like this — under judicial supervision, surrounded by allegations and counter-allegations, factional battles and complaints, and forever waiting for a resolution that somehow never arrives? Every few months, the script seems to repeat itself: a fresh complaint, a new allegation, another investigation, another committee,…
Special Correspondent Five years after a scathing judgment, the real question is no longer what happened in 2021. It is what the Hyderabad Cricket Association will do about it now. Five years is a long time in the life of any institution. It is certainly long enough for a judicial order to be implemented, examined…
