# 2019–20 Hyderabad C.A. season

The 2019–20 season is Hyderabad cricket team's 86th competitive season. The Hyderabad cricket team is senior men's domestic cricket team based in the city of Hyderabad, India, run by the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA). They represent the state of Telangana in domestic competitions.
The season was second in charge for the head coach and former player, Arjun Yadav. Ambati Rayudu came out of retirement to take the charge as the captain for the Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy while Tanmay Agarwal captained the side for the first time during the Ranji Trophy.

## Squad

The following players made at least one appearance for Hyderabad in first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket in 2019–20 season. Age given is at the start of Hyderabad's first match of the season (28 September 2019). Players with international caps are listed in bold.
| Name | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
| Batsmen |||||
| Himalay Agarwal | (1993-10-09)9 October 1993 (aged 25) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
| Tanmay Agarwal | (1995-05-03)3 May 1995 (aged 24) | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | First Class Captain |
| Jaweed Ali | (1993-12-15)15 December 1993 (aged 25) | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | First Class debut against Kerala (3 January 2020) |
| Rahul Buddhi | (1997-09-20)20 September 1997 (aged 22) | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | First Class debut against Bengal (19 January 2020) |
| Ambati Rayudu | (1985-09-23)23 September 1985 (aged 34) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | List A and Twenty20 Captain Played for Chennai Super Kings in 2020 Indian Premier League |
| Rohit Rayudu | (1994-07-29)29 July 1994 (aged 25) | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| Akshath Reddy | (1991-02-11)11 February 1991 (aged 28) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | Played for India Green in 2019-20 Duleep Trophy |
| Chaitanya Reddy | (1995-10-15)15 October 1995 (aged 23) | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | First Class debut against Delhi (25 December 2019) |
| Shashidhar Reddy | (1995-10-07)7 October 1995 (aged 23) | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | First Class debut against Gujarat (9 December 2019) Twenty20 debut against Arunachal Pradesh (15 November 2019) |
| Tilak Varma | (2002-11-08)8 November 2002 (aged 16) | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | List A debut against Saurashtra (28 September 2019) |
| All-rounders |||||
| Palakodeti Sairam | (1993-01-24)24 January 1993 (aged 26) | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| Bavanaka Sandeep | (1992-04-25)25 April 1992 (aged 27) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Played for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2020 Indian Premier League |
| Ravi Teja | (1994-10-19)19 October 1994 (aged 24) | Left-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
| Tanay Thyagarajan | (1995-11-15)15 November 1995 (aged 23) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| Wicket-keepers |||||
| Jamalpur Mallikarjun | (1993-10-14)14 October 1993 (aged 25) | Right-handed | — | First Class debut against Kerala (3 January 2020) List A debut against Saurashtra (28 September 2019) |
| Prateek Reddy | (2000-11-28)28 November 2000 (aged 18) | Right-handed | — | First Class debut against Vidarbha (12 February 2020) |
| Kolla Sumanth | (1992-04-24)24 April 1992 (aged 27) | Right-handed | — | |
| Bowlers |||||
| Gangam Anikethreddy | (2000-10-28)28 October 2000 (aged 18) | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | First Class debut against Vidarbha (12 February 2020) |
| Akash Bhandari | (1993-06-10)10 June 1993 (aged 26) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
| Ajay Dev Goud | (2000-02-15)15 February 2000 (aged 19) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | List A debut against Saurashtra (28 September 2019) Twenty20 debut against Arunachal Pradesh (15 November 2019) |
| Mehdi Hasan | (1990-02-03)3 February 1990 (aged 29) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| Ravi Kiran | (1991-03-16)16 March 1991 (aged 28) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
| Chama Milind | (1994-09-04)4 September 1994 (aged 25) | Left-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | |
| Yudhvir Singh | (1997-09-13)13 September 1997 (aged 22) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | First Class debut against Punjab (17 December 2019) Twenty20 debut against Chandigarh (12 November 2019) |
| Mohammed Siraj | (1994-03-13)13 March 1994 (aged 25) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Played for India B in 2019-20 Deodhar Trophy Played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2020 Indian Premier League |
| Source: |||||

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | Format | Pld | W | L | D / T / NR | Win % | Final position |
| Vijay Hazare Trophy | List A cricket | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 50% | Group stage |
| Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy | Twenty20 cricket | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57.14% | Group stage |
| Ranji Trophy | First-class cricket | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 12.50% | Relegated to Group C |

### 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 14 September 2019 and the Hyderabad was placed in the Group A with all the group fixtures to be played in Bengaluru. The team was selected on 14 September with Ambati Rayudu, who came out of retirement recently, appointed as the captain. Earlier, Rayudu announced retirement from all forms of game following his non-selection to the Indian squad for the 2019 World Cup. The matches originally scheduled on the first three days got mostly washed out due to the unseasonal rains across the India. Overall, 17 of the 30 matches got washed out during this time which forced the BCCI rejig the schedule to accommodate the abandoned matches and to avoid the rains for the future matches.

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| 1 | Karnataka | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 1.170 |
| 4 | Chhattisgarh | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 0.066 |
| 5 | Mumbai | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 0.832 |
| 7 | Hyderabad | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 0.734 |
| 8 | Jharkhand | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 | −0.231 |
| 9 | Kerala | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0.435 |
| 15 | Saurashtra | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | −0.648 |
| 17 | Andhra | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 6 | −1.122 |
| 18 | Goa | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 6 | −1.616 |
* Top five teams across Groups A and B advanced to the knockout stage.
* Bottom two teams across Groups A and B relegated to the Elite Group C for the next season.
Points system : W = 4, T/NR = 2, L = 0.

#### Matches
##### Group stage
### Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
#### Points Table
##### Group C

| Teamvte | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Maharashtra | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 | +0.510 |
| Punjab | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | +1.026 |
| Chandigarh | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | +0.701 |
| Chhattisgarh | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | +0.686 |
| Hyderabad | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | –0.255 |
| Railways | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | –0.872 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.564 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –2.685 |
* Top two teams advanced to the Super League
Points system : W = 4, T/NR = 2, L = 0.

#### Matches
##### Group stage
### Ranji Trophy
#### Points table
##### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | D | T | NR | Pts | Quot |
| 1 | Gujarat | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 1.235 |
| 2 | Bengal | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 1.470 |
| 5 | Andhra | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 1.175 |
| 6 | Punjab | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1.280 |
| 7 | Vidarbha | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1.159 |
| 8 | Delhi | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1.007 |
| 12 | Rajasthan | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0.842 |
| 17 | Kerala | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.772 |
| 18 | Hyderabad | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.509 |
* Top five teams across Groups A and B advance to the knockout stage.
* Bottom two teams across Groups A and B relegated to the Elite Group C for the next season.
Points system : Win by an innings or 10 wickets = 7, Win = 6, Draw with first innings lead = 3, Draw with first innings deficit = 1, No Result = 1, Loss = 0.

#### Matches
##### Group stage
## Player statistics
### Batting

| Player | First class | First class | First class | First class | First class | First class | First class | List A | List A | List A | List A | List A | List A | List A | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 |
| Player | Matches | Innings | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s | 50s | Matches | Innings | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s | 50s | Matches | Innings | Runs | Highest score | Average | Strike rate | 100s | 50s |
| Batsmen |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Himalay Agarwal | 6 | 12 | 174 | 68 | 15.81 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 8.00 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 70 | 34 | 14.00 | 88.60 | 0 | 0 |
| Tanmay Agarwal | 8 | 16 | 374 | 103 | 23.37 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 279 | 79 | 46.50 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 254 | 90* | 42.33 | 126.36 | 0 | 2 |
| Jaweed Ali | 4 | 8 | 210 | 98 | 26.25 | 0 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Rahul Buddhi | 2 | 4 | 102 | 52 | 25.25 | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Ambati Rayudu | | | | | | | | 7 | 7 | 233 | 87* | 38.83 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 174 | 77 | 29.00 | 124.28 | 0 | 1 |
| Rohit Rayudu | | | | | | | | 5 | 5 | 59 | 20 | 11.80 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| Akshath Reddy | 8 | 16 | 268 | 71 | 16.75 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 66 | 25 | 9.42 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 89 | 47 | 14.83 | 123.61 | 0 | 0 |
| Chaitanya Reddy | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1.50 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Shashidhar Reddy | 2 | 4 | 23 | 10 | 5.75 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4.00 | 57.14 | 0 | 0 |
| Tilak Varma | | | | | | | | 6 | 6 | 213 | 83 | 35.50 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 |
| All-rounders |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Palakodeti Sairam | 4 | 7 | 120 | 37 | 24.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | | | | | | |
| Bavanaka Sandeep | 5 | 10 | 183 | 41 | 18.30 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 136 | 39 | 22.66 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 261 | 74* | 87.00 | 141.84 | 0 | 2 |
| Ravi Teja | 5 | 10 | 257 | 72* | 32.12 | 0 | 2 | | | | | | | | 4 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 5.66 | 113.33 | 0 | 0 |
| Tanay Thyagarajan | 3 | 6 | 66 | 34 | 11.00 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Wicket-keepers |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jamalpur Mallikarjun | 2 | 4 | 52 | 38 | 13.00 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 70 | 30 | 17.50 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 58 | 23* | 29.00 | 111.53 | 0 | 0 |
| Prateek Reddy | 1 | 2 | 109 | 83 | 54.50 | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Kolla Sumanth | 8 | 15 | 448 | 111* | 37.33 | 1 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Bowlers |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gangam Anikethreddy | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2.50 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Akash Bhandari | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 14.00 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Ajay Dev Goud | | | | | | | | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1* | 1.00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Mehdi Hasan | 8 | 15 | 212 | 71* | 17.66 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 6* | 4.00 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Ravi Kiran | 7 | 13 | 77 | 19 | 7.70 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0* | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1* | – | 20.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Chama Milind | 6 | 12 | 132 | 47 | 11.00 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 88 | 36 | 17.60 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 33 | 23* | 33.00 | 137.50 | 0 | 0 |
| Yudhvir Singh | 2 | 4 | 36 | 31* | 12.00 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 7.00 | 233.33 | 0 | 0 |
| Mohammad Siraj | 5 | 9 | 118 | 46 | 16.85 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 23 | 19 | 7.66 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 12.00 | 70.58 | 0 | 0 |
| Source: ESPNcricinfo |||||||||||||||||||||||

### Bowling

| Player | First class | First class | First class | First class | First class | First class | First class | First class | List A | List A | List A | List A | List A | List A | List A | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 |
| Player | Matches | Overs | Wickets | Average | BBI | BBM | 5wi | 10wm | Matches | Overs | Wickets | Average | Economy | BBI | 5wi | Matches | Overs | Wickets | Average | Economy | BBI | 4wi |
| Gangam Anikethreddy | 1 | 35.0 | 4 | 21.00 | 4/61 | 4/84 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Akash Bhandari | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | 15.0 | 2 | 59.50 | 7.93 | 1/11 | 0 |
| Rahul Buddhi | 2 | 0.4 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Ajay Dev Goud | | | | | | | | | 4 | 27.0 | 4 | 33.00 | 4.88 | 3/52 | 0 | 2 | 7.0 | 5 | 9.00 | 6.42 | 4/15 | 1 |
| Mehdi Hasan | 8 | 247.4 | 16 | 48.81 | 4/78 | 5/143 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 47.4 | 4 | 48.00 | 4.02 | 2/38 | 0 | 7 | 26.0 | 10 | 16.70 | 6.42 | 3/23 | 0 |
| Ravi Kiran | 7 | 203.0 | 26 | 20.73 | 4/39 | 6/88 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9.0 | 3 | 22.33 | 7.44 | 2/41 | 0 | 1 | 3.0 | 0 | – | 12.33 | – | 0 |
| Chama Milind | 6 | 133.5 | 10 | 42.50 | 3/66 | 3/93 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 45.2 | 12 | 20.58 | 5.44 | 3/39 | 0 | 7 | 25.0 | 7 | 26.28 | 7.36 | 2/14 | 0 |
| Rohit Rayudu | | | | | | | | | 5 | 17.0 | 3 | 24.66 | 4.35 | 1/14 | 0 | | | | | | | |
| Chaitanya Reddy | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Palakodeti Sairam | 4 | 76.0 | 6 | 54.50 | 2/9 | 3/59 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | – | 6.60 | – | 0 | | | | | | | |
| Bavanaka Sandeep | 5 | 16.0 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 7 | 39.5 | 14 | 12.14 | 4.26 | 5/26 | 1 | 7 | 8.0 | 1 | 69.00 | 8.62 | 1/12 | 0 |
| Yudhvir Singh | 2 | 36.0 | 2 | 66.00 | 1/60 | 1/60 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | 3 | 12.0 | 2 | 53.50 | 8.91 | 2/37 | 0 |
| Mohammad Siraj | 5 | 144.1 | 19 | 26.94 | 4/59 | 7/106 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 53.0 | 12 | 17.00 | 3.84 | 4/20 | 0 | 7 | 26.4 | 13 | 13.53 | 6.60 | 3/15 | 0 |
| Ravi Teja | 5 | 93.0 | 5 | 71.40 | 1/22 | 2/53 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | 4 | 11.0 | 1 | 10.3.00 | 9.36 | 1/22 | 0 |
| Tanay Thyagarajan | 3 | 46.4 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Tilak Varma | | | | | | | | | 6 | 5.0 | 1 | 37.00 | 7.40 | 1/19 | 0 | | | | | | | |
| Source: ESPNcricinfo |||||||||||||||||||||||

### Fielding

| Player | First class | First class | First class | List A | List A | List A | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 |
| Player | Matches | Catches | Stumpings | Matches | Catches | Stumpings | Matches | Catches | Stumpings |
| Himalay Agarwal | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Tanmay Agarwal | 8 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| Jaweed Ali | 4 | 3 | 0 | | | | | | |
| Gangam Anikethreddy | 1 | 2 | 0 | | | | | | |
| Akash Bhandari | | | | | | | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Ajay Dev Goud | | | | 4 | 1 | 0 | | | |
| Mehdi Hasan | 8 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| Jamalpur Mallikarjun | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| Chama Milind | | | | 7 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| Ambati Rayudu | | | | | | | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| Rohit Rayudu | | | | 5 | 1 | 0 | | | |
| Akshath Reddy | 8 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | | | |
| Shashidhar Reddy | 2 | 1 | 0 | | | | | | |
| Palakodeti Sairam | 4 | 1 | 0 | | | | | | |
| Bavanaka Sandeep | | | | 7 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| Yudhvir Singh | | | | | | | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Mohammad Siraj | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| Kolla Sumanth | 8 | 25 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Ravi Teja | | | | | | | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Tanay Thyagarajan | 3 | 4 | 0 | | | | | | |
| Tilak Varma | | | | 6 | 4 | 0 | | | |
| Source: ESPNcricinfo ||||||||||