# 2015–16 Hyderabad C.A. season

The 2015–16 season is Hyderabad cricket team's 82nd 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 | Pld | W | L | D / T / NR | Win % |
| Senior men's | Ranji Trophy | First-class cricket | 1 October 2015 | 1 December 2015 | Group Stage | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0% |
| Senior women's | One-Day League | Women's List A cricket | 15 November 2015 | 4 December 2015 | Elite Super League Stage | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57.14% |
| Senior men's | Vijay Hazare Trophy | List A cricket | 11 December 2015 | 18 December 2015 | Group Stage | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 16.67% |
| Senior women's | T20 League | Women's Twenty20 cricket | 2 January 2016 | 6 January 2016 | Elite Group Stage | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50% |
| Senior men's | Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy | Twenty20 cricket | 2 January 2016 | 10 January 2016 | Group Stage | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 33.33% |

## Senior Men's team
### Squads

* Head coach: Abdul Azeem
* Assistant coach : T Dilip
* Fielding Coach : NS Ganesh
* Physio : Prasanth Panchada
* Trainer : Subash Chandra Patro
* Video analyst : E Vinay Kumar
| Ranji Trophy | Vijay Hazare Trophy | Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy |
| Hanuma Vihari (c) Vishal Sharma Habeeb Ahmed (wk) Himalay Agarwal Tanmay Agarwal Balchander Anirudh Anwar Ahmed Ashish Reddy Akash Bhandari Mehdi Hasan Chama Milind Akshath Reddy Bavanaka Sandeep Tirumalasetti Suman Sudeep Tyagi Mohammed Siraj | Hanuma Vihari (c) Vishal Sharma Himalay Agarwal Tanmay Agarwal Mehdi Hasan Jaweed Ali Chama Milind Mohammed Siraj Pagadala Naidu Ravi Kiran Akshath Reddy Bavanaka Sandeep Tirumalasetti Suman Kolla Sumanth (wk) Yathin Reddy | Hanuma Vihari (c) Vishal Sharma Himalay Agarwal Tanmay Agarwal Annabathula Akash Ashish Reddy Akash Bhandari Mehdi Hasan Jaweed Ali Chama Milind Mohammed Siraj Ravi Kiran Akshath Reddy Bavanaka Sandeep Kolla Sumanth (wk) |
Sudeep Tyagi moved from the Saurashtra to the Hyderabad ahead of the 2015–16 season.

#### Indian Premier League

Local franchise, Sunrisers Hyderabad retained Ashish Reddy and picked Tirumalasetti Suman while Delhi Daredevils picked Chama Milind in the IPL Auction for 2016 Indian Premier League season.

### Ranji Trophy

Hyderabad began their campaign in Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India, against Goa at Porvorim on 1 October 2015. They finished eighth in Group C with no wins, six draws and two losses.

#### Points table
##### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | L | D | A | Pts | NRR |
| Saurashtra | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 36 | -0.061 |
| Jharkhand | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 0.093 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1.201 |
| Services | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0.473 |
| Kerala | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0.589 |
| Goa | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 18 | -0.206 |
| Jammu & Kashmir | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0.870 |
| Hyderabad | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 | -0.330 |
| Tripura | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | -0.760 |
* Top two teams advanced to knockout stage and promoted to Group A / B for 2016–17 Ranji Trophy.

#### Statistics
##### Most runs

| Player | Mat | Inns | Runs | Ave | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| Hanuma Vihari | 8 | 13 | 626 | 48.15 | 42.38 | 219 | 2 | 2 |
| Akshath Reddy | 8 | 13 | 535 | 44.58 | 49.62 | 125 | 1 | 3 |
| Balchander Anirudh | 8 | 13 | 470 | 47.00 | 49.78 | 79* | 0 | 6 |
* Source: ESPNcricinfo

##### Most wickets

| Player | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Ave | Econ | BBI | SR | 5WI | 10WM |
| Vishal Sharma | 5 | 7 | 17 | 30.35 | 2.70 | 4/30 | 67.2 | 0 | 0 |
| Mehdi Hasan | 5 | 8 | 16 | 33.00 | 2.79 | 5/43 | 70.8 | 2 | 1 |
| Chama Milind | 7 | 12 | 16 | 41.12 | 3.32 | 3/50 | 74.2 | 0 | 0 |
* Source: ESPNcricinfo

### Vijay Hazare Trophy

Hyderabad began their campaign in Vijay Hazare Trophy, a List A cricket tournament in India, against Punjab at Hyderabad on 11 December 2015. They finished in sixth in Group A with a win and five losses.

#### Points Table
##### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Tamil Nadu | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | +1.254 |
| Punjab | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | +0.349 |
| Mumbai | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | +0.866 |
| Services | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -0.321 |
| Rajasthan | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -0.772 |
| Hyderabad | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.454 |
| Assam | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -0.807 |
* Top two teams advanced to knockout stage.

#### Statistics
##### Most runs

| Player | Mat | Inns | Runs | Ave | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| Hanuma Vihari | 6 | 6 | 235 | 39.16 | 71.64 | 95 | 0 | 2 |
| Tanmay Agarwal | 5 | 5 | 208 | 41.60 | 90.82 | 105 | 1 | 1 |
| Kolla Sumanth | 6 | 6 | 157 | 31.40 | 77.72 | 63* | 0 | 1 |
* Source: ESPNcricinfo

##### Most wickets

| Player | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Ave | Econ | BBI | SR | 4WI | 5WI |
| Ravi Kiran | 6 | 6 | 16 | 16.75 | 4.74 | 4/33 | 21.1 | 2 | 0 |
| Chama Milind | 4 | 4 | 9 | 23.44 | 5.70 | 3/44 | 24.6 | 0 | 0 |
| Vishal Sharma | 6 | 6 | 7 | 35.28 | 4.18 | 2/40 | 50.5 | 0 | 0 |
* Source: ESPNcricinfo

### Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

Hyderabad began their campaign in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, a Twenty20 tournament in India, against Bengal at Nagpur on 2 January 2016. They finished in fifth in Group A with two wins and four losses.

#### Points Table
##### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Vidarbha | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0.017 |
| Gujarat | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1.559 |
| Tamil Nadu | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1.136 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -0.025 |
| Hyderabad | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -0.270 |
| Bengal | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -0.786 |
| Haryana | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -1.406 |
* Top two teams advanced to the Super League.

#### Statistics
##### Most runs

| Player | Mat | Inns | Runs | Ave | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| Hanuma Vihari | 6 | 6 | 170 | 28.33 | 123.18 | 44 | 0 | 0 |
| Akshath Reddy | 6 | 6 | 149 | 24.83 | 139.25 | 43 | 0 | 0 |
| Tanmay Agarwal | 6 | 6 | 84 | 14.00 | 97.67 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
* Source: ESPNcricinfo

##### Most wickets

| Player | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Ave | Econ | BBI | SR | 4WI | 5WI |
| Chama Milind | 6 | 6 | 8 | 24.75 | 9.00 | 3/34 | 16.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Akash Bhandari | 6 | 6 | 7 | 18.71 | 5.45 | 2/18 | 20.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Mohammed Siraj | 5 | 5 | 7 | 21.42 | 7.50 | 2/22 | 17.1 | 0 | 0 |
* Source: ESPNcricinfo

## Senior Women's team
### Squads

* Head coach: Purnima Rao
* Assistant coach: Nooshin Al Khadeer
* Assistant coach: Savita Nirala
* Physio : Harsha Jain
* Trainer : Swathi
| One-Day League | T20 League |
| Sravanthi Naidu (c) Sneha Morey Diana David Gouher Sultana Ananya Upendran M Shalini Arundhati Reddy Vellore Mahesh Kavya D Ramya Himani Yadav Bhogi Shravani Nishath Fatima (wk) Anuradha Naik (wk) Vinodha Pranathi Reddy N Sunitha | Sravanthi Naidu (c) Arundhati Reddy Gouher Sultana Pranathi Reddy Ananya Upendran Diana David M Shalini Nishath Fatima (wk) Vellore Mahesh Kavya Sneha Morey D Ramya Bhogi Shravani Anuradha Vinodha Himani Yadav |

#### Senior women's cricket inter zonal three day game

Arundhati Reddy, Gouher Sultana and Vellore Mahesh Kavya got selected for South Zone squad for 2015-16 Senior women's cricket inter zonal three day game, a Women's First-class cricket tournament in India. This was the first edition to be scheduled with three-day games as the previous edition had two-day games.

### One-Day League

Hyderabad began their campaign in Senior women's one day league, Women's List A cricket tournament in India, against Bengal at Panaji on 15 November 2015. They finished inside top-2 in Elite Group B with three wins and a loss to advance to Super League. They finished fourth in Super League with a win and two losses.

#### Points Table

| Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Maharashtra | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +1.463 |
| Hyderabad | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -0.470 |
| Delhi | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -0.392 |
| Goa | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.184 |
| Bengal | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.247 |
| Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Railways | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +1.219 |
| Mumbai | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.148 |
| Maharashtra | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.426 |
| Hyderabad | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.775 |

#### Statistics
##### Most runs

| Player | Mat | Inns | Runs | Ave | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| Vellore Mahesh Kavya | 7 | 6 | 93 | 23.25 | 47.93 | 50* | 0 | 1 |
| M Shalini | 7 | 7 | 89 | 12.71 | 54.60 | 44 | 0 | 0 |
| Sneha Morey | 7 | 7 | 75 | 10.71 | 31.38 | 48 | 0 | 0 |
* Source: BCCI

##### Most wickets

| Player | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Ave | Econ | BBI | SR | 4WI | 5WI |
| Gouher Sultana | 7 | 7 | 12 | 10.08 | 2.08 | 3/16 | 29.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Sravanthi Naidu | 7 | 7 | 11 | 12.00 | 2.42 | 3/12 | 29.72 | 0 | 0 |
| Arundhati Reddy | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9.00 | 1.94 | 2/7 | 27.75 | 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 Delhi at Kolkata on 2 January 2016. They finished in fourth in Elite Group B with two wins and two losses.

#### Points Table
##### Elite Group B

| Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Railways | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +1.613 |
| Maharashtra | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +1.231 |
| Bengal | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -0.417 |
| Hyderabad | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -1.284 |
| Delhi | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1.190 |
Top two teams advanced to Super League.
 Bottom team relegated to 2016-17 Plate Group.

#### Statistics
##### Most runs

| Player | Mat | Inns | Runs | Ave | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| M Shalini | 4 | 4 | 54 | 13.50 | 112.50 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Vellore Mahesh Kavya | 4 | 4 | 45 | 15.00 | 70.31 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Diana David | 4 | 4 | 40 | 13.33 | 62.50 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
* Source: BCCI

##### Most wickets

| Player | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Ave | Econ | BBI | SR | 4WI | 5WI |
| Vellore Mahesh Kavya | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7.83 | 3.91 | 2/10 | 12.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Ananya Upendran | 4 | 4 | 6 | 9.16 | 3.92 | 3/14 | 14.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Gouher Sultana | 4 | 4 | 4 | 10.75 | 3.07 | 2/2 | 21.00 | 0 | 0 |
* Source: BCCI