XtraTime Web Desk: Just hours after Sourav Ganguly was re-elected as the President of Cricket Association of Bengal, another former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin also won the elections at Hyderabad Cricket Association on Friday.
The 56-year-old former India captain was involved in a three-way contest for the President’s post for the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA). The stylish southpaw won the elections 147-73 to become the President of HCA.
Azharuddin, who was exonerated by the Andhra High Court in a match-fixing case on November 8, 2012, was the front-runner in a three-way contest. Initially, as many as 12 candidates filed the nomination for the top HCA post, but only three were left in the fray after nine persons either withdrew voluntarily or their candidature was rejected by the electoral officer. However, it may not be a cakewalk for Azharuddin, after all.
The middle-order batsman, who played 433 international matches, including 99 Tests, wasn’t allowed to contest for the same post at the 2017 elections by the then returning officer K. Rajiv Reddy who had claimed that the BCCI hadn’t exonerated Azharuddin formally rescinded the life ban on him, even after the Andhra High Court giving him a clean chit.