Special Reports
Special Correspondent For the first time in recent years, there appears to be a glimmer of hope among Hyderabad cricket stakeholders that the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) might finally be heading towards meaningful course correction. The Single Member Committee (SMC), headed by Justice P. Naveen Rao, seems to have taken a timely and potentially significant…
106 Signatures, 32 Barred Clubs and a Desperate Last-Minute Manoeuvre Special Correspondent The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), once among the most respected members of the BCCI, cannot continue to be held hostage by a handful of self-appointed power brokers, club secretaries and vested interests who appear to have mistaken the association for their personal fiefdom….
The real malice behind a decade of administrative decay Special Correspondent The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) does not suffer from a shortage of cricketing talent, capable administrators or judicial intervention. What it has suffered from, for well over a decade, is something far more damaging: an entrenched class of self-serving office-bearers and club power-brokers who…
Another match, another humiliating performance. Yet, the selectors remain untouched. Is the SMC waiting for Hyderabad cricket to hit rock bottom before acting? Special Correspondent Another dismal performance by Hyderabad’s Senior Women’s team. Another season of unfulfilled promises. And, predictably, not a word of accountability from those responsible for assembling the side. How long will…
My cricketing career may not have been a long one, but it gave me the rare privilege of meeting, watching and playing alongside some of the finest cricketers India has produced. Looking back, I owe a big thank you to M.L. Jaisimha and, above all, the Almighty for giving me those unforgettable experiences. Cricket is…
Why a better inequality score is encouraging, but not the complete economic picture India’s reported Gini Index score of 23 has attracted considerable attention, placing the country among the more equal societies in the world according to the World Bank’s latest available data for 2023. It is an encouraging indicator, particularly for a country of…
The blueprint to clean up HCA was handed over in 2023. The elected council had three years to implement it but failed. Now the High Court has reopened the reform process, while those who presided over the mess are demanding the keys back. Special Correspondent Twenty recommendations. Three years. Countless opportunities. Yet, the Hyderabad Cricket…
Bharat was fortunate to get a decisive leadership change in 2014. Otherwise, the accumulated rot in several public institutions, including the banking sector, could have continued unchecked. For nearly six and a half decades, Congress governments treated public-sector banks and financial institutions less as independent institutions serving depositors and borrowers and more as extensions of…
Dear Rayudu, Let me begin by saying something that should leave no room for doubt: I am your fan. Not because of CSK or the Asia Cup, but because I have followed your cricketing journey from your childhood days in Hyderabad. So, please read this not as an attack, but as a heartfelt complaint from…
Hyderabad has everything a cricket powerhouse needs: money, an IPL home, a booming city and an enormous pool of players. So why do its teams repeatedly fall short? The answer lies not in a shortage of talent, but in a selection system that appears to reward influence over performance. Special Correspondent Few Indian cities are…
