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Life, successful galore ways, has travel afloat ellipse for Ambati Rayudu. In 2019, earlier permanently hanging up his boots, helium took to societal media to allege that corruption was rampant wrong the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA).
Seven years later, Rayudu has returned to assistance signifier the precise strategy helium erstwhile decried.
As Head of Cricket Operations, helium is present moving to usher the HCA into a caller epoch built connected transparency, with subordinate payment astatine the bosom of it. Drawing from the lessons of his ain career, the 40-year-old said his absorption is connected ensuring aboriginal generations travel done a strategy that is not lone demanding but besides fair.
“We are doing this due to the fact that of our emotion for Hyderabad cricket. I person grown up here, astatine a clip erstwhile determination was nary wealth successful Hyderabad successful that elections were done fairly. So overmuch has gone missing implicit the past 10-15 years and we privation to get it back. We privation to get positivity backmost into the relation and into Hyderabad cricket,” helium told The Hindu.
HCA Secretary M. Jeevan Reddy, meanwhile, declared that Rayudu has been fixed implicit authorization implicit cricket operations
“We’re precise excited astir the accidental of doing bully and much than that, we conscionable anticipation that the protocols and checks and balances that we are mounting volition clasp strong, and cricket travels successful the close direction,” the erstwhile India planetary added.
Rayudu explained that selectors astatine the HCA volition present beryllium required to capable retired a ‘Selection Sheet’ for each subordinate to guarantee greater accountability and fairness successful the enactment process. He besides revealed that the HCA plans to usage Claude, an AI tool, to minimise quality interference successful the allocation of umpires, scorers, grounds and different operational responsibilities.
Personnel from the Committee for Cricketing Operations volition beryllium successful enactment meetings to guarantee the close questions are asked, helium stated.
Rayudu further disclosed that efforts are underway to hole seaming and turning tracks astatine the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium successful a bid to amended Hyderabad’s performances successful location Ranji Trophy matches.
Jeevan Reddy besides said the Hyderabad broadside that won past season’s Vinoo Mankad Trophy volition soon beryllium felicitated alongside the enactment staff, with currency incentives acceptable to beryllium announced.
Selection Committees named
HCA connected Monday announced the constitution of its Senior and Junior Selection Committees, headed by headed by erstwhile Hyderabad Ranji openers, for the 2026–27 cricket play to oversee subordinate selections for each HCA-represented tournaments and age-group events.
Senior Selection Committee: P. Akshath Reddy (Chairman), T. Suman, Mehdi Hasan, T. Pavan Kumar, Inder Shekar Reddy.
Junior Selection Committee: Akash Bhandari (Chairman), P. Ramesh Kumar, Shoaib, Sarvesh Kumar, Timothy Kumar.
