Hyderabad: The Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) has demanded that the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) publish a comprehensive “White Paper” detailing its legal expenditure over the past several years, including payments to advocates, senior counsel, legal officers, court fees and other litigation-related costs.
TCA General Secretary Dharam Guruva Reddy, in a signed statement, said cricket stakeholders had a right to know how much of HCA’s funds, including BCCI grants and other cricket-related resources, had been spent on litigation instead of player development, tournaments, coaching, grounds and infrastructure.
“If every rupee spent on legal matters was legitimate, necessary and properly authorised, there should be no difficulty in placing the complete record in the public domain,” he said.
The TCA said its demand was based on HCA’s own governance framework. It referred to Rules 35 and 36 concerning accounts and audited financial statements, Rule 37 relating to transparency in expenditure, audited accounts, tenders, contracts and governance records, and Rule 38 dealing with conflicts of interest.
Reddy sought year-wise details of HCA’s legal expenditure, including the amount paid to each advocate or senior counsel, the cases for which payments were made, the authority under which they were approved and the HCA accounts from which the payments were made. He also sought clarification on expenses relating to the association and those, if any, concerning individual office-bearers.
The TCA also referred to the Telangana High Court judgment dated April 22, 2026, in V. Ramchander Goud v. Hyderabad Cricket Association, saying the judgment had dealt with disputes concerning legal bills and the distinction between HCA matters and matters involving individual office-bearers.
Reddy said financial transparency should also cover the Telangana T20 League. He questioned compliance with Rules 28, 30 and 31 governing the league, along with Rule 37 disclosure requirements and Rule 38 conflict-of-interest provisions.
The TCA sought case-wise and advocate-wise legal payment details, approvals, invoices and accounting entries, besides tournament permissions, contracts, governance records and district-wise cricket-development expenditure.
“An order is not a trophy. Compliance is,” Reddy said, adding that TCA was prepared to place its records in the public domain for comparison.
On allegations of attempts to influence judicial proceedings, the TCA said it would not treat unverified allegations as established facts, but maintained that any substantiated allegation should be subjected to independent institutional scrutiny.
Reddy also renewed the TCA’s invitation to the HCA Secretary or an authorised representative for an open television debate or round-table discussion on the association’s finances, governance and cricket development.
“We are ready to put our records on the table. Let HCA put its records on the table. No slogans, no excuses—just facts and documents,” he said.
