The 2018–19 season is Hyderabad cricket team's 85th 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 (HCA). They represent the state of Telangana in domestic competitions.

Competition overview Category Competition Format First match Last match Final position Senior men's Vijay Hazare Trophy List A cricket 19 September 2018 17 October 2018 Semi-finals 10 6 3 1 60%Senior men's Ranji Trophy First-class cricket 1 November 2018 30 December 2018 Group Stage 8 1 1 6 12.50%Senior women's One Day League Women's List A cricket 1 December 2018 18 December 2018 Elite Group Stage 8 4 3 1 50%Senior women's T20 League Women's Twenty20 cricket 20 February 2019 1 March 2019 Group Stage 6 3 2 1 50%Senior men's Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Twenty20 cricket 21 February 2019 2 March 2019 Group Stage 7 1 5 1 14.28%

Senior men's team

Squads Head coach: Arjun Yadav Bowling Coach : Narender Pal Singh Fielding Coach : T Dilip Physio : Bheesham Pratap Singh Trainer : Naveen Reddy Vijay Hazare Trophy Ranji Trophy Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Ambati Rayudu (c) Akshath Reddy (vc) Bavanaka Sandeep Chama Milind Tanmay Agarwal Rohit Rayudu Kolla Sumanth (wk) Mehdi Hasan Ravi Kiran Mohammad Siraj Ravi Teja Akash Bhandari Palakodeti Sairam Ashish Reddy Tanay Thyagarajan Himalay Agarwal Mohammad Muddassir Ajay Dev Goud Akshath Reddy (c) Tanmay Agarwal Bavanaka Sandeep Rohit Rayudu Kolla Sumanth (wk) Mehdi Hasan Ravi Kiran Chama Milind Palakodeti Sairam Akash Bhandari Ravi Teja Tanay Thyagarajan Himalay Agarwal KSK Chaitanya (wk) Mohammad Muddassir Mohammad Siraj Kartikeya Kak Ajay Dev Goud Tilak Varma Ambati Rayudu (c) Akshath Reddy (vc) Himalay Agarwal Tanmay Agarwal Ashish Reddy Akash Bhandari Mehdi Hasan Jamalpur Mallikarjun (wk) Chama Milind Mohammad Siraj Ravi Teja Rohit Rayudu Palakodeti Sairam Bavanaka Sandeep Kolla Sumanth (wk) Chaitanya Reddy Kartikeya Kak Tilak Varma Abdul Ela Al Quraishi

Pragyan Ojha moved to the Bihar ahead of the 2018–19 season. The Hyderabad also got new coach with Yadav replacing J. Arunkumar.

Duleep Trophy Sandeep got selected to the India Red squad for the 2018–19 Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament in India.

Deodhar Trophy Siraj got selected to the India A while Rohit to the India B for the 2018–19 Deodhar Trophy, a List A cricket tournament in India.

Indian Premier League Siraj and Rayudu were retained by the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Chennai Super Kings ahead of the auction for the 2019 Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India. None of the Hyderabad players were picked by the franchises during the auction.

Vijay Hazare Trophy

The Vijay Hazare Trophy, a List A cricket tournament in India, fixtures were announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on 29 August 2018 and the Hyderabad was placed in the Group B with all the group fixtures to be played in New Delhi. The team was selected on 12 September with Akshath Reddy appointed as the captain and Arjun Yadav as the head coach. Ambati Rayudu missed out on the selection because of his national duties for the 2018 Asia Cup while Chama Milind, who missed out last season because of the injury, made a comeback into the squad. Though there were doubts on the team selected owing to the eligibility of the selection committee who were appointed by the steering committee led by former players like V. V. S. Laxman and Mohammad Azharuddin but did not get cleared by the HCA general body as per the BCCI rule book, the team finally got the nod for the tournament on 18 September from the High Court appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) though the CoA declared the selection committee illegal.

The Hyderabad began their campaign on a winning note defeating the Madhya Pradesh by seven wickets. The Hyderabadi bowlers took regular wickets to bowl-out Madhya Pradesh to 231 while measured half-centuries from Tanmay Agarwal and Rohit Rayudu completed the chase for the Hyderabad with seven wickets and 14 balls to spare. In the second match, Nitish Rana's unbeaten knock of 91 in 87 balls helped the Delhi chase the revised target of 176 in 30.4 overs in a rain-hit match to hand the Hyderabad their first defeat in the tournament. Earlier, it was Manan Sharma who troubled the Hyderabad batsmen in the middle with his four-wicket haul until Mohammad Siraj's cameo at the end with a couple of sixes that helped the Hyderabad to recover to 205. In another rain-affected reduced-over match, the Saurashtra successfully chased the revised target of 110 in 19 overs with the combined batting effort from Robin Uthappa, Aarpit Vasavada and Prerak Mankad. Earlier, the Hyderabad recovered in the middle from the top-order collapse with 95-run partnership between Kolla Sumanth and Bavanaka Sandeep but could not capitalize on that partnership as the Hyderabad suffered from another collapse at the end and were restricted to 196 in 45 overs. The Hyderabad's match against the Andhra, their fourth match of the tournament, was washed off due to the incessant rains in Delhi. In the fifth match, Mehdi Hasan's maiden fifer helped the Hyderabad bowl out the Uttar Pradesh for 130 despite their skipper, Suresh Raina's half-century while the opening partnership of 124 between Akshath and Tanmay handed the Hyderabad a 9-wicket win over the Uttar Pradesh. Chasing 223 to win, the Chhattisgarh were bowled out to 121 with Palakodeti Sairam and Mehdi sharing three wickets between them as the Hyderabad secured their third win in six matches. Earlier, Rohit's half-century along with the support from Sandeep's 41 helped the Hyderabad post 222 in 50 overs. Siraj missed the rest of the group matches for the Hyderabad as he was selected to the national team for the test series against the West Indies. In the seventh match, two-wicket hauls along with the tight bowling from Sairam and Ravi Kiran helped the Hyderabad restrict the Kerala to 189 despite the half-century from VA Jagadeesh while an unbeaten century partnership between Rohit and Sandeep completed the chase for the Hyderabad with seven wickets to spare. The Hyderabad survived the scare in their last group match defeating the Odisha narrowly by one wicket but still need the favorable results on the last day to qualify for the knockout stage. Chasing 248 to win, the Hyderabad enjoyed the strong start with the half-centuries from their openers, Tanmay and Akshath but their dismissals triggered the batting collapsed until an unbeaten 43-run knock from Sumanth completed the chase despite the flurry of wickets at the other end. Earlier, the Odisha had a strong start too with the century partnership between Govinda Poddar and Subhranshu Senapati but the six-wicket haul from Milind helped the Hyderabad restrict the Odisha to 247. The defeat of the Baroda to the Maharashtra in the Group A helped the Hyderabad advance to the knockout stage as they finished third in the Group B and fifth across the groups A & B with five wins, two losses and a draw.

The fixtures for the knockout stage were announced by the BCCI on 11 October with Bengaluru hosting all the fixtures as the Hyderabad faced the Andhra in the quarter-final on 15 October. The Hyderabad announced their squad for the knockout stage on 11 October as Rayudu came back to the squad to lead the team following the completion of the Asia Cup. Rayudu replaced Himalay Agarwal while Mohammad Muddassir replaced Siraj and the Hyderabad's U–19 all-rounder, Ajay Dev Goud replaced Ashish Reddy. With Siraj not being selected into playing XI for the India during the on-going West Indies Test Series, he was released by the BCCI on 14 October to play for the Hyderabad during the knockout stage. Chasing 282 in 50 overs, the Andhra lost the first wicket to Siraj but the half-centuries from Hanuma Vihari and Ricky Bhui put the Andhra in the winning position only for the Siraj to come back and remove the both set-batsmen that triggered the Andhra's collapse as they were restricted to 267 and helped the Hyderabad advance to the semi-final. Earlier, the Hyderabad posted 281 with the help of Sandeep's 96-run knock along with the supporting knocks from Rayudu and Sumanth in the middle and brisk scoring from Milind at the end. The Hyderabad was eliminated in the semi-final where the Mumbai defeated them in a rain-hit match by 60 runs. The Hyderabad were troubled early in the match despite Sandeep's counter-attack and were reduced to 123/6 in 35 overs but an unbeaten ton from Rohit along with the support from Akash Bhandari and Mehdi helped the Hyderabad post 246 in 50 overs. Prithvi Shaw started aggressively for the Mumbai scoring his fifty in just 34 balls and helped the Mumbai post 155 in 25 overs along with the support of an unbeaten half-century from Shreyas Iyer before the rain stopped the play. The Mumbai were adjudged winners as they were ahead by 60 runs according to the VJD method.

Points table Group B

Points system : W = 4, T/NR = 2, L = 0.

Knockout stage

Matches Group Stage

Quarter-final

Semi-final

Statistics

Batting Name Runs 9 9 398 66.33 70.19 121* 1 3 9 8 371 61.83 82.81 96 0 3 9 9 303 37.87 66.88 83 0 3 9 9 273 30.33 72.99 64 0 2 9 7 172 34.40 63.70 47 0 0Source:

Bowling Name 9 9 15 18.13 3.76 5/20 28.8 0 1 8 8 11 23.81 4.94 6/43 28.9 0 1 7 7 8 29.25 5.77 3/42 30.3 0 0 7 7 8 33.00 5.17 2/24 38.2 0 0 9 9 7 38.00 4.43 2/31 51.4 0 0 Source:

Ranji Trophy

Ranji Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament in India, fixtures were announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on 29 August 2018 and the Hyderabad was placed in Group B. The team was selected on 29 October with Akshath Reddy appointed as the captain to lead the team in their opening match against the Kerala on 1 November in the absence of their senior player, Ambati Rayudu, who was on the national duty. Rayudu later announced his retirement from the first-class cricket on 3 November to focus on the shorter version of the game.