Vinay Rao In a major step towards restoring credibility in cricket administration, the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) has initiated a series of reforms under judicial oversight, following the High Court’s directive to the state government to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe allegations of corruption and mismanagement within the body. The court-appointed supervisory…
Vinay Rao It began not with a slogan or a strategy, but with a moment—quiet, almost forgettable—on the banks of the Ganga in Kashi. The boat drifted without urgency that evening. The river flowed as it always had—indifferent to human drama, untouched by ambition, silently carrying the weight of centuries. Empires had risen and fallen…
Vinay Rao A writ petition was dismissed. A system exposed. And an administration is still silent. The Telangana High Court’s ruling in WP No. 10001 of 2026 was not just another routine dismissal. It was, in effect, a forensic audit of how the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) has been functioning — or failing to function….
Vinay Rao TG20 launches — Telangana cricket announces itself to the world They believed when few others did. They pushed when the doors stayed shut. And last night, in a packed, electric hotel hall — surrounded by legends, dreamers, and the next generation of Telangana cricket — they had their moment. No grand speeches were…
Vinay Rao The latest verdict of the Telangana High Court on the functioning of the Hyderabad Cricket Association is not merely another judicial intervention—it is a sweeping indictment of an institution that has, over the years, drifted from administrative inefficiency into deep-rooted structural decay. What emerges from the court’s findings is not a story of…
Vinay Rao This is not incompetence. It is not administrative decay. And it certainly is not an unfortunate accident. What has unfolded within the Hyderabad Cricket Association is far more sinister — a deliberate, layered, and deeply entrenched system that now resembles a cartel in both structure and intent. What began as quiet manipulation has…
Vinay Rao There is a peculiar species that thrives in cricket administration — not outraged by wrongdoing, but deeply offended when wrongdoing happens without including them. Their moral compass doesn’t point north; it points toward access. Access to passes, positions, proximity — and, most importantly, perks. For years, life inside the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA)…
Vinay Rao For years, Hyderabad cricket didn’t run a selection system — it ran a quiet, well-oiled arrangement. Performance was the brochure; access was the currency. Now, with the Telangana High Court stepping in and calling out a “disturbing state of affairs,” the pretence has finally cracked. Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka’s order for a Special Investigation…
The moment of reckoning has finally arrived for Hyderabad cricket. For far too long, the system has oscillated between denial and damage control, while the rot deep within has been allowed to fester unchecked. Today, as the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) begins to show faint signs of movement—be it the belated filling up of vacant…
Vinay Rao Call it innovation if you like—but not the kind that wins matches, builds cricketers, or earns respect. Hyderabad cricket’s custodians, the very architects of its prolonged decline, have now unveiled their latest “format”: the grand spectacle of press conferences without scorecards. Statements flow freely, microphones stay warm, indignation is carefully rehearsed—but accountability? That,…
