G Vivekanand, a former Member of Parliament from Peddapalli constituency has been elected as the President of Hyderabad Cricket Associaton (HCA) by defeating Vidyuth Jaisimha.

Vivekanand got a number of 136 votes to win the race whereas only 69 votes were put in his opponents favor. He will be taking over the charge from former Indian cricketer Arshad Ayub.

Also, Anil Kumar has been elected as the Vice-President of the board, whereas, T Seshnarayan has been elected as the secretary. Ajmal Asad has been elected as the joint secretary while Mahender will act as the treasurer.

The elections for all the posts were conducted in the month of January but the results were delayed due to an order from High Court.

However, HCA was the first state association to conduct elections as per the recommendations of the Lodha Panel. They were also rocked by controversy when a 4 Crore fraud case was discovered by ACB.

The Rajiv Gandhi International stadium in Hyderabad will be hosting the first match of IPL season-10 between hosts and defending champions Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and the finalists last season Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). For both sides absence of star players will hamper their chances of stamping early domination, as for Hyderabad Mustafizur Rahman would be out and for Bangalore captain Virat Kohli and opening batsman KL Rahul will be missing from the line-up.