Special Correspondent Time’s Up. Set HCA Free The Apex Council’s term cannot be extended by convenience. Justice P. Naveen Rao’s real legacy must be to professionalise HCA, expose wrongdoing, remove entrenched power brokers and end the association’s permanent dependence on court-appointed supervision. Can Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) ever sing “Yahan Ke Hum Sikandar” and mean…
Our Special Correspondent Is HCA Heading Towards a Constitutional Crisis? Come October 20, the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) could plunge into a constitutional crisis. One may ask, what? Yes, the term of the present Apex Council ends. Then what? Could HCA be left without a duly mandated elected council? Once that happens, who will run…
An Open Letter to Hon’ble Justice P. Naveen Rao (Retd.), Single Member Committee, HCA Respected Sir, We write this with respect, but also with a sense of urgency. When the High Court entrusted the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) to your supervision, Hyderabad cricket was given an opportunity to break free from years of allegations, factionalism…
One Academy, Many Hats: Six Questions Hyderabad Cricket Cannot Dodge Special Correspondent The pressure is mounting on the Telangana High Court-appointed Single Member Committee (SMC), Justice P. Naveen Rao, which was entrusted with sweeping powers to clean up the mess that has damaged both the image of the game and the credibility of the Hyderabad…
Special Correspondent Speak Up, Don’t Just Cheer Reforms in the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) will remain a distant dream unless every stakeholder who claims to be concerned about the game finds the courage to speak up. Sitting on the sidelines, applauding those who raise uncomfortable questions and privately agreeing with them, will not clean up…
Special Correspondent How to Capture a Cricket Association: The Hyderabad Handbook For nine years, the Hyderabad Cricket Association has been run, watched, audited, investigated and supervised by courts, committees and investigative agencies. Criminal cases have been registered. An office-bearer has been arrested. The Enforcement Directorate has opened a money-laundering case. A Special Investigation Team has…
Special Correspondent, with inputs from aggrieved parents Women’s Cricket Cannot Be Left in the Shadows While considerable attention is finally being directed towards reforming men’s cricket in Hyderabad — whether through the State High Court-appointed Single Member Committee (SMC), the new Secretary or initiatives such as TG20 and attempts to take the game to the…
Cleanse First, Then Vote Special Correspondent In Part I of this series, the central question was simple but uncomfortable: why has justice and meaningful reform moved so slowly in Hyderabad cricket despite years of litigation, judicial interventions, committees and repeated assurances? Part II must confront the more difficult question: what should happen now? The answer…
HCA and controversies appear to have become inseparable, a reality that every serious stakeholder in Telangana cricket has witnessed over the years. What makes the situation more disturbing is that repeated judicial interventions, committees, audits and investigations have not brought the expected institutional transformation. Why does the cycle continue? Money, influence, glamour and proximity to…
Special Correspondent The Telangana High Court’s latest order in the Classic Cricket Club case may have brought procedural closure to the litigation, but it has hardly brought closure to the controversy surrounding the 57 Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) clubs whose voting rights and participation in General Body meetings remain under a cloud. In what many…
