The 2017–18 season is Hyderabad cricket team's 84th competitive season. The Hyderabad cricket team and Hyderabad women's cricket team are senior men's and women's domestic cricket teams based in the city of Hyderabad, India, run by the Hyderabad Cricket Association. They represent the state of Telangana in domestic competitions.
Competition overview Category Competition Format First match Last match Final position Senior men's Ranji Trophy First-class cricket 6 October 2017 25 November 2017 Group Stage 6 2 1 3 33.33%Senior women's One-Day League Women's List A cricket 6 December 2017 12 December 2017 Elite Group Stage 4 1 3 0 25%Senior men's Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Twenty20 cricket 8 January 2018 14 January 2018 Zonal Stage 5 2 3 0 40%Senior women's T20 League Women's Twenty20 cricket 13 January 2018 17 January 2018 Elite Group Stage 4 0 4 0 0%Senior men's Vijay Hazare Trophy List A cricket 5 February 2018 21 February 2018 Quarter-finals 7 5 2 0 71.42%
Senior Men's team
Squads Head coach: J. Arunkumar Assistant coach : Narender Pal Singh Physio : Bheesham Pratap Singh Trainer : Naveen Reddy Video analyst : Santosh BM Buchi Babu Tournament Ranji Trophy Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Vijay Hazare TrophyAkshath Reddy (c) Tanmay Agarwal Rohit Rayudu Bavanaka Sandeep Kolla Sumanth (wk) Ashish Reddy Akash Bhandari Mehdi Hasan Ravi Kiran Mohammad Muddassir Tilak Varma Rohit Reddy Amol Shinde Sudeep Tyagi Gangam AnikethreddyAmbati Rayudu (c) Kolla Sumanth (wk) Tanmay Agarwal Ashish Reddy Akash Bhandari Mehdi Hasan Chama Milind Mohammad Muddassir Mohammad Siraj Pragyan Ojha Ravi Kiran Akshath Reddy Rohit Rayudu Palakodeti Sairam Bavanaka Sandeep Amol Shinde Sudeep TyagiAmbati Rayudu (c) Akshath Reddy Tanmay Agarwal Ashish Reddy Akash Bhandari Mehdi Hasan Kartikeya Kak Mohammad Siraj Pragyan Ojha Ravi Kiran Ravi Teja Rohit Rayudu Palakodeti Sairam Bavanaka Sandeep Kolla Sumanth (wk) Tanay ThyagarajanAkshath Reddy (c) Bavanaka Sandeep Tanmay Agarwal Akash Bhandari Chaitanya Reddy Mehdi Hasan Jaweed Ali Mohammad Muddassir Mohammad Siraj Ravi Kiran Ravi Teja Ambati Rayudu Rohit Rayudu Palakodeti Sairam Kolla Sumanth (wk) Tanay Thyagarajan Ambati Rayudu moved back from the Vidarbha to lead the Hyderabad while Balchander Anirudh moved from the Hyderabad to the Tamil Nadu and S Badrinath had opted to take a year-off from the first-class cricket ahead of the 2017–18 season. The Hyderabad team also got the new coach with J. Arunkumar replacing Bharat Arun.
Duleep Trophy Rayudu and Chama Milind got selected for India Red squad while Mohammad Siraj got selected for India Green squad for 2017-18 Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament in India. Ambati Rayudu missed the tournament because of knee injury while Mohammad Siraj was released from India Green squad as he got selected for India-A series.
Deodhar Trophy Rohit Rayudu got selected for India A squad for 2017-18 Deodhar Trophy, a List A cricket competition in India.
Indian Premier League Among 13 players who got their names for the IPL Auction, Ambati Rayudu got picked by Chennai Super Kings and Mohammed Siraj by Royal Challengers Bangalore while local franchise, SunRisers Hyderabad picked Mehdi Hasan and Tanmay Agarwal for 2018 Indian Premier League season.
Buchi Babu Tournament Hyderabad was invited for 2017–18 Kalpathi AGS - Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament, invitational tournament conducted annually by Tamil Nadu Cricket Association in the honour of M. Buchi Babu Naidu and began their campaign against Baroda at Chennai on 5 September 2017. They topped Group C with two wins in as many matches to advance to knockout stage. They won the tournament defeating TNCA Presidents XI by 8 wickets in final. Kolla Sumanth was later named as the player of the tournament.
Points Table Group C TeamHyderabad 2 2 0 0 0 8 +0.814Baroda 2 1 1 0 0 4 -0.501TNCA XI 2 0 2 0 0 0 -0.569
Matches Group Stage
Semi-final
Final
Statistics Most runs Player Runs Kolla Sumanth 4 4 345 172.50 71.88 103* 1 3 Tanmay Agarwal 4 4 259 64.75 66.93 82 0 3 Rohit Rayudu 4 4 176 88.00 53.50 65* 0 1 Source: Most wickets Player Mehdi Hasan 4 4 12 26.83 3.11 5/78 51.83 1 1 Amol Shinde 4 4 8 17.38 3.30 4/56 31.63 1 0 Akash Bhandari 4 4 7 30.14 3.90 2/7 46.43 0 0 Source:
Ranji Trophy
Hyderabad began their campaign in Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India, against Maharashtra at Hyderabad on 6 October 2017. They finished in fourth in Group A with two wins, a draw and a loss while two home matches, one against Maharashtra and the other against Uttar Pradesh, were abandoned due to incessant rains.
Points Table Group A TeamKarnataka 6 4 0 2 0 32 +0.479Delhi 6 3 0 3 0 27 +0.333Maharashtra 6 2 2 1 1 16 +0.084Hyderabad 6 2 1 1 2 16 –0.156Railways 6 2 3 1 0 14 –0.312Uttar Pradesh 6 0 3 2 1 5 +0.508Assam 6 0 4 2 0 2 –0.977
Matches Group Stage
Statistics Most runs Player Runs Bavanaka Sandeep 4 7 400 57.14 46.08 93 0 4 Ambati Rayudu 3 5 278 69.50 54.19 112 1 2 Akshath Reddy 4 8 238 34.00 45.07 107 1 1 Source: ESPNcricinfo Most wickets Player Ravi Kiran 4 7 16 23.12 2.80 3/30 49.4 0 0 Mehdi Hasan 4 7 15 21.46 2.50 5/88 51.4 1 0 Ravi Teja 3 5 8 26.87 2.85 5/49 56.5 1 0 Source: ESPNcricinfo
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
Hyderabad began their campaign in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, a Twenty20 tournament in India, against Kerala at Vizianagaram on 8 January 2018. They finished in fourth in South Zone with two wins and three losses.
Points Table South Zone TeamKarnataka 5 4 1 0 0 16 +1.354Tamil Nadu 5 4 1 0 0 16 +0.435Andhra 5 4 1 0 0 16 +0.109Hyderabad 5 2 3 0 0 8 –0.074Kerala 5 1 4 0 0 4 -0.375Goa 5 0 5 0 0 0 –1.499
Matches Zonal Stage
Statistics Most runs Player Runs Akshath Reddy 5 5 184 36.80 155.93 70 0 2 Ambati Rayudu 5 5 181 45.25 141.40 53 0 2 Tanmay Agarwal 5 5 151 30.20 145.19 59 0 1 Source: ESPNcricinfo Most wickets Player Ravi Kiran 5 5 10 14.30 7.39 4/23 11.6 1 0 Mohammed Siraj 5 5 10 17.10 8.55 3/26 12.0 0 0 Mehdi Hasan 5 5 6 24.83 7.84 3/40 19.0 0 0 Source: ESPNcricinfo
Vijay Hazare Trophy
Hyderabad began their campaign in Vijay Hazare Trophy, a List A cricket tournament in India, against Services at Hyderabad on 5 February 2018. They topped Group D with five wins and a loss to advance to knockout stage. They were eliminated in Quarter-finals where Karnataka defeated Hyderabad by 103 runs. Mohammed Siraj was the highest wicket-taker of the tournament with the total scalps of 23 in seven matches.
Points Table Group D TeamHyderabad 6 5 1 0 0 20 +0.646Saurashtra 6 4 2 0 0 16 +1.017Vidarbha 6 4 2 0 0 16 +0.718Chhattisgarh 6 4 2 0 0 16 –0.103Jharkhand 6 2 4 0 0 8 +0.325 6 2 4 0 0 8 –1.040Services 6 0 6 0 0 0 –1.508
Knockout stage
Matches Group Stage
Quarter-final
Statistics Most runs Player Runs Rohit Rayudu 7 7 357 51.00 80.95 130 2 0 Akshath Reddy 7 7 341 48.71 95.51 127 1 2 Bavanaka Sandeep 7 7 312 44.57 93.41 79 0 3 Source: ESPNcricinfo Most wickets Player Mohammed Siraj 7 7 23 15.65 5.68 5/37 16.5 0 3 Akash Bhandari 7 7 8 30.12 6.17 3/34 29.2 0 0 Ravi Kiran 7 7 8 39.75 5.49 2/17 43.3 0 0 Source: ESPNcricinfo
Senior Women's team
Squads Head coach: Savita Nirala Physio : Harsha Ganwal Trainer : V Keerthi Video analyst : Sudha Kumarasena One-Day League T20 LeagueGouher Sultana (c) Ananya Upendran Sravanthi Naidu Pranathi Reddy Rachna S Kumar Bhogi Shravani Sunitha Anand (wk) Nishath Fatima (wk) Vellore Mahesh Kavya Mamata Kanojia D Ramya Sneha Morey K Anitha Himani Yadav Archana DasSravanthi Naidu (c) D Ramya Himani Yadav Pranathi Reddy Rachna S Kumar Sneha Morey Sravya (wk) Ananya Upendran Vellore Mahesh Kavya Gouher Sultana G Trisha Mamata Kanojia V Pooja K Anitha Nishath Fatima (wk)
Senior women's cricket inter zonal three day game Himani Yadav, Ananya Upendran, Vellore Mahesh Kavya, Gouher Sultana and Sravanthi Naidu got selected for South Zone squad for 2017-18 Senior women's cricket inter zonal three day game, a Women's First-class cricket tournament in India.
One-Day League
Hyderabad began their campaign in Senior women's one day league, Women's List A cricket tournament in India, against Andhra at Hyderabad on 6 December 2017. They finished in third in Elite Group A with a win and three losses.
Points Table Elite Group A TeamRailways4400016 +0.647Andhra4310012 +0.454Hyderabad413004 -0.175Himachal Pradesh413004 -0.372Madhya Pradesh413004 -0.460 Top two teams advanced to Super League. Bottom team relegated to 2018–19 Plate Group.
Matches Group Stage
Statistics Most runs Player Runs Sravanthi Naidu 4 4 127 31.75 50.39 39 0 0 Sneha Morey 4 4 122 30.50 62.56 38 0 0 Himani Yadav 4 4 84 21.00 55.62 54 0 1 Source: BCCI Most wickets Player Vellore Mahesh Kavya 4 4 8 19.25 4.00 4/32 28.87 1 0 Gouher Sultana 4 4 5 28.80 3.69 3/34 46.80 0 0 Source: BCCI
T20 League
Hyderabad began their campaign in Senior Women's T20 League, a Women's Twenty20 cricket tournament in India, against Railways at Mumbai on 13 January 2018. They finished in last in Elite Group B with no wins and four losses and got relegated to Plate Group for 2018–19 season.
Points Table Elite Group B TeamMaharashtra4400016 +1.011Delhi4310012 -0.223Railways422008 +0.905Mumbai413004 -0.786Hyderabad404000 -0.780 Top two teams advanced to Super League. Bottom team relegated to 2018–19 Plate Group.
Matches Group Stage
Statistics Most runs Player Runs D Ramya 4 4 87 21.75 78.37 57 0 1 Himani Yadav 4 4 73 18.25 73.73 33 0 0 Ananya Upendran 4 4 55 13.75 110.00 35 0 0 Source: BCCI Most wickets Player Gouher Sultana 4 4 4 15.25 4.69 2/13 19.50 0 0 Himani Yadav 4 4 3 15.33 5.75 2/15 16.00 0 0 G Trisha 4 4 3 22.33 5.22 3/10 25.66 0 0 Source: BCCI
Telangana T20 League
Hyderabad Cricket Association launched the Telangana T20 League with an initiative to provide major boost to rural cricketers who lag behind due to lack of proper infrastructure and coaching facilities. Many Hyderabad players took part in the inaugural season and Adilabad Tigers won the tournament with Danny Dereck Prince scoring most runs of the tournament and Praneeth Raj taking most wickets.
See also Hyderabad cricket team Hyderabad women's cricket team Hyderabad Cricket Association
References
External links Hyderabad cricket team official site