When I began writing this column, my purpose was never personal. It was — and remains — to highlight the persistent injustices faced by aspiring cricketers from the rural and semi-urban districts of our young Telangana state. Ten years have passed since Telangana was formed, yet our boys continue to be treated as outsiders on…
Guruva Reddy Dharam India’s most beloved sport now faces a constitutional question in Telangana. When institutions that govern cricket defy the very laws that give them legitimacy, it ceases to be a sporting issue — it becomes a matter of justice. And given the prolonged violations by the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) and the inertia…
The election of a new BCCI body is being hailed as a fresh dawn for Indian cricket. But if it is truly a dawn, then why must Telangana continue to remain in darkness? For decades, four crore people of this state have been denied their rightful place in Indian cricket. As Secretary of the Telangana…
For too long, I have watched Telangana’s cricketing talent being caged—not because our youngsters lacked ability, but because the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) monopolized access to coaching, selection, and development. Cricket in Hyderabad once thrived like a religion, but beyond the city limits, deserving boys were denied even a fair chance. This exclusion was never…
For more than eleven years, Telangana’s cricketers have been left stranded—caught between the rot of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) reluctance to enforce its own constitutional order. It is time this denial ends. Telangana’s players deserve a clear pathway, and the Telangana Cricket Association (TCA)…
Dharam Guruva Reddy He is a lone warrior. A Business Management postgraduate from Osmania University, he captained its cricket team in the All-India Inter-University tournament and also led Nizam College before moving on to play county cricket for Sussex in the UK. For nearly a decade now, he has waged relentless legal battles since returning…
