Where has talent in Hyderabad disappeared?
Makarand Waingankar, in the Hindu , laments the decline of Hyderabad cricket
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Makarand Waingankar, in the Hindu, laments the decline of Hyderabad cricket. There was a time, he writes, back in the 1960s and '70s when the team enjoyed an abundance of talent, including players who were unfortunate not to play for India, and introduces readers to some of them.
In 1979 I saw a teenager Saad Bin Jung, nephew of Pataudi, score a brilliant hundred against the deadly West Indian attack at Hyderabad playing for South Zone. Batting without helmet, he was hooking the bowlers past square-leg. His unbeaten knock of 136 against Tamil Nadu on a rank bad turner of Chepauk in 1979 is considered one of the finest by those who witnessed it. Serious illness cut short his career.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo