2019–20 Hyderabad C.A. season explained

Club:	Hyderabad C.A.
Season:	2019–20
Coach:	Arjun Yadav
Captain:	Ambati Rayudu
Ground:	Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium
Comp1:	Ranji Trophy
Comp1 Result:	18th Group A&B (relegated)
Comp2:	Vijay Hazare Trophy
Comp2 Result:	7th Group A&B
Comp3:	Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
Comp3 Result:	5th Group C
Prevseason:	2018–19
Nextseason:	2020–21
Most Runs:	FC: Kolla Sumanth (448) LA: Tanmay Agarwal (279) T20: Bavanaka Sandeep (261)
Most Wickets:	FC: Ravi Kiran (26) LA: Bavanaka Sandeep (14) T20: Mohammed Siraj (13)

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
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed
	September 28, 2019	Left-handed		First Class Captain
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed		First Class debut against Kerala (3 January 2020)^[1]
	September 28, 2019	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	First Class debut against Bengal (19 January 2020)^[2]
Ambati Rayudu	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	List A and Twenty20 Captain Played for Chennai Super Kings in 2020 Indian Premier League
	September 28, 2019	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Played for India Green in 2019-20 Duleep Trophy^[3] ^[4]
	September 28, 2019	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	First Class debut against Delhi (25 December 2019)^[5]
	September 28, 2019	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	First Class debut against Gujarat (9 December 2019)^[6] Twenty20 debut against Arunachal Pradesh (15 November 2019)^[7]
	September 28, 2019	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	List A debut against Saurashtra (28 September 2019)^[8]
All-rounders
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	September 28, 2019	Left-handed		Played for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2020 Indian Premier League
	September 28, 2019	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	September 28, 2019	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Wicket-keepers
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	-	First Class debut against Kerala (3 January 2020) List A debut against Saurashtra (28 September 2019)
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	-	First Class debut against Vidarbha (12 February 2020)^[9]
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	-
Bowlers
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	First Class debut against Vidarbha (12 February 2020)
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	List A debut against Saurashtra (28 September 2019) Twenty20 debut against Arunachal Pradesh (15 November 2019)
	September 28, 2019	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	September 28, 2019	Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast
	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	First Class debut against Punjab (17 December 2019)^[10] Twenty20 debut against Chandigarh (12 November 2019)^[11]
Mohammed Siraj	September 28, 2019	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Played for India B in 2019-20 Deodhar Trophy^[12] Played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2020 Indian Premier League^[13]
Source:^[14] ^[15] ^[16]

Competitions

Overview

Competition	Format						Final position
		8	4	3	1	50%	Group stage
		7	4	3	0	57.14%	Group stage
		8	1	6	1	12.50%	Relegated to Group C

Vijay Hazare Trophy

See main article: article and 2019–20 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.^{[17] [18]} The team was selected on 14 September with Ambati Rayudu, who came out of retirement recently, appointed as the captain.^{[15] [19] [20]} Earlier, Rayudu announced retirement from all forms of game following his non-selection to the Indian squad for the 2019 World Cup.^[21] The matches originally scheduled on the first three days got mostly washed out due to the unseasonal rains across the India.^{[22] [23]} 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.^{[24] [25]}

Points Table

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

Matches

Group stage

See main article: 2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy Group A.

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

See main article: article and 2019–20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Points Table

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

Matches

Group stage

See main article: 2019–20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group C.

Ranji Trophy

See main article: article and 2019–20 Ranji Trophy.

Points table

Group APoints 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

See main article: 2019–20 Ranji Trophy Group A.

Player statistics

Batting

Player	First class							List A							Twenty20
	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
	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
	8	16	374	103	23.37	1	1	7	7	279	79	46.50	0	3	7	7	254		42.33	126.36	0	2
	4	8	210	98	26.25	0	2
	2	4	102	52	25.25	0	1
								7	7	233		38.83	0	2	7	7	174	77	29.00	124.28	0	1
								5	5	59	20	11.80	0	0
	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
	1	2	3	3	1.50	0	0
	2	4	23	10	5.75	0	0								1	1	4	4	4.00	57.14	0	0
								6	6	213	83	35.50	0	2	1	1	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0
All-rounders
	4	7	120	37	24.00	0	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
	5	10	183	41	18.30	0	0	7	7	136	39	22.66	0	0	7	7	261		87.00	141.84	0	2
	5	10	257		32.12	0	2								4	4	17	9	5.66	113.33	0	0
	3	6	66	34	11.00	0	0
Wicket-keepers
	2	4	52	38	13.00	0	0	7	6	70	30	17.50	0	0	5	3	58		29.00	111.53	0	0
	1	2	109	83	54.50	0	1
	8	15	448		37.33	1	4
Bowlers
	1	2	5	4	2.50	0	0
															6	2	14	11	14.00	100.00	0	0
								4	2	1		1.00	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	8	15	212		17.66	0	1	7	3	8		4.00	0	0	7	1	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0
	7	13	77	19	7.70	0	0	2	1	0		-	0	0	1	1	1		-	20.00	0	0
	6	12	132	47	11.00	0	0	7	6	88	36	17.60	0	0	7	3	33		33.00	137.50	0	0
	2	4	36		12.00	0	0								3	1	7	7	7.00	233.33	0	0
	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^[26] ^[27] ^[28]

Bowling

Player	First class								List A							Twenty20
	Matches	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	BBM	5wi	10wm	Matches	Overs	Wickets	Average	Economy	BBI	5wi	Matches	Overs	Wickets	Average	Economy	BBI	4wi
	1	35.0	4	21.00	4/61	4/84	0	0
																6	15.0	2	59.50	7.93	1/11	0
	2	0.4	0	-	-	-	0	0
									4	27.0	4	33.00	4.88	3/52	0	2	7.0	5	9.00	6.42	4/15	1
	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
	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
	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
									5	17.0	3	24.66	4.35	1/14	0
	1	1.0	0	-	-	-	0	0
	4	76.0	6	54.50	2/9	3/59	0	0	1	5.0	0	-	6.60	-	0
	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
	2	36.0	2	66.00	1/60	1/60	0	0								3	12.0	2	53.50	8.91	2/37	0
	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
	5	93.0	5	71.40	1/22	2/53	0	0								4	11.0	1	10.3.00	9.36	1/22	0
	3	46.4	0	-	-	-	0	0
									6	5.0	1	37.00	7.40	1/19	0
Source: ESPNcricinfo

Fielding

Player	First class			List A			Twenty20
	Matches	Catches	Stumpings	Matches	Catches	Stumpings	Matches	Catches	Stumpings
	6	1	0	3	1	0	6	1	0
	8	6	0	7	5	0	7	3	0
	4	3	0
	1	2	0
							6	3	0
				4	1	0
	8	2	0	7	1	0	7	2	0
	2	2	0	7	14	0	5	2	1
				7	1	0	7	1	0
							7	3	0
				5	1	0
	8	5	0	7	1	0
	2	1	0
	4	1	0
				7	3	0	7	4	0
							3	4	0
	5	2	0	7	1	0	7	1	0
	8	25	1
							4	2	0
	3	4	0
				6	4	0
Source: ESPNcricinfo

External links

• Hyderabad cricket team official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Elite, Group A, Ranji Trophy at Hyderabad (Deccan), Jan 3-6 2020 . 6 May 2020. ESPNcricinfo.
2. Web site: Elite, Group A, Ranji Trophy at Kalyani, Jan 19-22 2020 . 6 May 2020. ESPNcricinfo.
3. Web site: Shubman Gill, Priyank Panchal and Faiz Fazal to lead Duleep Trophy sides. ESPNcricinfo. 6 August 2019. 6 August 2019.
4. Web site: Gill, Fazal and Panchal to lead in Duleep Trophy. Cricbuzz. 6 August 2019. 6 August 2019.
5. Web site: Elite, Group A, Ranji Trophy at Delhi, Dec 25-28 2019 . 6 May 2020. ESPNcricinfo.
6. Web site: Elite, Group A, Ranji Trophy at Hyderabad (Deccan), Dec 9-12 2019 . 6 May 2020. ESPNcricinfo.
7. Web site: Group C, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at Chandigarh, Nov 15 2019 . 6 May 2020. ESPNcricinfo.
8. Web site: Elite, Group A, Vijay Hazare Trophy at Alur (2), Sep 28 2019 . 6 May 2020. ESPNcricinfo.
9. Web site: Elite, Group A, Ranji Trophy at Hyderabad (Deccan), Feb 12-15 2020 . 6 May 2020. ESPNcricinfo.
10. Web site: Elite, Group A, Ranji Trophy at Patiala, Dec 17-20 2019 . 6 May 2020. ESPNcricinfo.
11. Web site: Group C, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at Chandigarh, Nov 12 2019 . 6 May 2020. ESPNcricinfo.
12. Web site: Vihari, Parthiv and Gill to lead Deodhar Trophy teams. Cricbuzz. 24 October 2019. 24 October 2019.
13. Web site: IPL Auction 2020. ESPNcricinfo. 15 November 2019. 19 February 2021.
14. News: V.V.. Subrahmanyam. Ranji Trophy 2019-20: Hyderabad faces Gujarat challenge under new skipper Tanmay Agarwal. Sportstar. 8 December 2019. 9 December 2019.
15. News: Days after retirement U-turn, Ambati Rayudu named captain of Hyderabad. Hindustan Times. 14 September 2019. 14 September 2019.
16. Web site: Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy squads / Hyderabad (India). ESPNcricinfo. 6 November 2019. 7 November 2019.
17. News: BCCI announces domestic schedule for 2019-20 season . SportStar. 3 July 2019. 14 September 2019.
18. News: Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019: Full schedule, venues, dates, squads and stars to watch out for. Hindustan Times. 24 September 2019. 24 September 2019.
19. Web site: Coming out of retirement 'not a U-turn' - Ambati Rayudu. ESPNcricinfo. 31 August 2019. 14 September 2019.
20. Web site: Muthu. Deivarayan. Ambati Rayudu named Hyderabad captain after coming out of retirement. ESPNcricinfo. 14 September 2019. 14 September 2019.
21. Web site: Gollapudi. Nagraj. Rayudu announces retirement after World Cup snub. ESPNcricinfo. 3 July 2019. 14 September 2019.
22. News: Easy victory for Tamil Nadu in Vijay Hazare opener. The New Indian Express. 25 September 2019. 28 September 2019.
23. News: Vijay Hazare: All three matches washed out for second straight day. The Hindu. 26 September 2019. 28 September 2019.
24. Web site: Somani. Saurabh. Rain-affected games in Bengaluru leg of Vijay Hazare Trophy rescheduled. ESPNcricinfo. 27 September 2019. 28 September 2019.
25. Web site: Somani. Saurabh. Another rejig in Vijay Hazare Trophy schedule following spate of abandonments. ESPNcricinfo. 28 September 2019. 28 September 2019.
26. Web site: Averages for Hyderabad (India): Ranji Trophy 2019/20 . ESPNcricinfo . 4 May 2020.
27. Web site: Averages for Hyderabad (India): Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019/20 . ESPNcricinfo . 4 May 2020.
28. Web site: Averages for Hyderabad (India): Syed Mustaq Ali Trophy 2019/20 . ESPNcricinfo . 4 May 2020.