Hyderabad: Andhra’s finds of last season, fast bowlers Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna and P. Vijay Kumar, are two of the eight first-class cricketers who will play for Hyderabad in the forthcoming Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket championship, according to manager Vijay Mohan Raj.

Vijay said that the six other cricketers are N. Arjun Yadav, D.B. Ravi Teja, N. Sarvesh Kumar and Pragyan Ojha (all from Hyderabad), India discard Y. Venugopala Rao (Andhra) and Orissa wicketkeeper Halhadar Das.
“With the addition of the first-class players, we have fulfilled the franchisee’s obligation to include under-22 players and players from the ‘catchment area’ (which included Hyderabad, Andhra and Orissa) in the Twenty20 squad,” Vijay Mohan Raj explained.