RAJU'S DISTINGUISHED CAREER

As a player:

1985-91 Played all Junior Zonals, Senior Zonals, Combined District, Inter District, Rest XI (Moinudullah)

1992-03 Played International Invitation Tournaments

As a official :

1992-93, 1994-95, 1997-98, 2000-01,05 Manager for Hyderabad District

Since 1991 he has been managing Own Coaching Center. At JHPS & BVPS Grounds.

Nominated as Joint Secretary for Hyderabad District Cricket Association since 2002.

Conducting Hyderabad Districts league matches successfully for the past six years.

Coaching Career:

Official Cricket Coach in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan from 1994.

Official Cricket Coach in JHPS from 1998.

18 years ago I decided that it was time I stopped dreaming and started trying to make my dreams a reality. I also desired that bright cricketing talent should not be handicapped due to lack of proper training - something that many people of my time faced. I wanted to provide the best of facilities to nurture cricketing talent and to equip them to face the challenges of modern day professional cricket.


Many friends and well-wishers tried to dissuade me from even attempting to achieve such a big dream. But the words of Walt Disney “If you can dream it, you can do it” gave me the courage to work towards materializing my dreams. ”.

The realization of my dream seemed an easier challenge to face with the invaluable support and guidance of Sri. M. Ranga Reddy, the former Vice President of BCCI. It gives me great satisfaction to express my gratitude to this noble person through this medium as he has stood by us in triumphs and turbulences throughout these eventful 18 years.

When we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Raju’s Cricket Club in the year 2000, I wrote about our phenomenal achievements in the first ten years. The next decade has been even more eventful and satisfying. We have been able to see a number of our students represent the state in the under 13, 15, 16 and 17 categories. It is with unmatched joy and pride that I list out the milestones we have achieved during the period 2001 to 2009.

RCC has trained over 7860 students so far. We have started a new coaching center at Kakarla International School, Tolichowki, which has been running since 2003.

We have successfully conducted 10 foreign tours during these eight years. We are the only team from South India to participate in the prestigious Royal Bangkok Six-a-side Tournament thrice. We have renewed our association with B V B Public School and facilitated the putting up of new nets. Our association with them is now 13 years old.

We were the Winners in the Juniors Invitation Tournament conducted by Candy Cricket Club in Sri Lanka. This was the first opportunity we got to visit a top cricket-playing nation. Among the eight matches we played we won six of them and returned victorious. Our team had the experience of meeting many of the Sri Lankan Cricket stars, their National Board Chairman and the National coach. Many newspapers have covered the details of this tour.

was Victorious in the Juniors Invitation tournament conducted by Candy Cricket Club in Srilanka.This is the first time that visited a top cricket playing nation.In all the played eight matches won six of them and returned victorious.The team had the experience of meeting all most all the Sri Lankan Cricket stars including Board Chairman and coach.The details of the tour has been detailed elsewhere un this souvenir under news peper reports.

Another proud moment for RCC was when our Team “C” division won the championship in the year 2006-07. The credit for this victory goes to the captain Srinivas Rao and his team..

The various overseas tours and cricketing events that RCC successfully participated in during the period 2001-2009 were to:

1. Bangladesh – on the invitation of Bangladesh Kria Sports Pratishthan during the year 2001-2002.

2. Bangkok-for participating in the Royal Bangkok International Six –a-Side Tournament during the years 2001, 2002and 2006.on the invitation from Ravi Sepal, Chairman RBSC.

3. Thailand –for participating in the under 15 tournament conducted by Thailand Cricket Association on invitation from Shri Prakash Malani Vice President of Thailand Cricket Association.

4. Malaysia – for participating in the Juniors Invitation tournament by the Malaysian Cricket Association in the year 2004 arranged by by Mr Venkateshwar R ao (vasu)

5. Srilanka–(Colombo,Candy, & Kunmangala ) in the year 2006 for the year 2006 for participating in the Juniors Invitation tournamaent organized by Candy Cricket Club.

6. Srilanka 2007 Under 15

7. Bangkok 2008 6's

8. Srilanka 2008

9. Bangkok 2009 For 6's

10. Maldives in 2009 again for

The club has been successfully conducting the Hyderabad District Annual League for the last 15 years.

We have been conducting “Inter–School Champions Trophy” effectively for the last 8 years.

We have also conducted the “Kode Venkatadri Chowdary Memorial Inter-School Tournament “and the “Kode Venkatadri Chowdary - Six a Side Tournament “ in association with JHPS. Our club has now become affiliated to the Hyderabad Cricket Association.

We have been successful in conducting cricket coaching activities at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Jubilee Hills and at International School.

Many students from different schools, after being coached by us, have participated in various tournaments in all categories for district leagues; inter district tournaments and HCA league matches.

The success that RCC has seen would not have been possible without the guidance, encouragement, and support of several well-wishers and friends. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the management of Jubilee Hills Public School, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and International School for letting us use their school grounds and set up nets on their grounds.

I would like to once again thank Sri A. Satyanarayana Ex-Chairman, Jubilee Hills Public School, Sri K Satyanarayan, President of Jubilee Hills Education Society, Secretary and Chairman of the school Management Committee Sri Seshagiri Rao and Sri K. Durga Prasad.

Our special thanks to Sri Murali Mukund, Chairman and Secretary of JHPS & JHES, a cricket lover..

Our special thanks to Smt. C. Rama Devi, Princial of BVBPS for her encouragement and support towards the achievement of our goals.

Our special thanks are due to Smt. Anjali Rzodm, Principal of JHPS whose encouragement and support during these years has helped in achieving our targets.

I take this opportunity to thank the executive committee of HCA and in particular Sri Shivlal Yadav, Secretary, Arshad Ayub, Sri M V Sridhar, Sri Narender Goud, Sri Venkatapathi Raju Vice-President, Sri Chalapathi, Joint Secretary of HCA and Maheshwar Singh, former Ranji Player.

I also thank all the Secretaries and Members affiliated to HCA. .

I will be failing in my duty if I do not thank the press who have taken keen interest in the activities of RCC and have been regularly reporting the achievements in newspapers. In this connection I would like to thank Sri Valentine Wilson of Deccan Chronicle, Sri Subrahmanyam of The Hindu, Sri S.S. Das of The Indian Express, Sri Solomon of The Times of India, Sri J Srinivas of Vartha, Sri Kumar of Andhra Jyothi, Sri Sridhar of Andhra Bhoomi and reporters of Eenadu (Ramesh) and Andhra Prabha.

My special thanks to Sri Ravi Sehgal, Sri Mohinuddin Khader and Prakash Malani and other friends in Bangkok, Sri Venkat(Vasu) in Malyasia, Sri Farukul Islam and Sri Khalque of Bangladesh, Sri Kasturi Ratne and Sri Sunil De Silva of Sri Lanka, Sri Pradeep Menon of Dubai who hosts the oversesas tournaments and took good care of us during our visit and also other friends in Singapore, Maldives and Nepal

My sincere thanks to Sri Jagan Mohan Rao, Sri Vaman Rao, Murthy uncle, my mother, wife, brothers, sisters and Dr.G. V. Rao.

My thanks to my friends in the P.T. department, especially to Smt Lakshmi Reddy, Smt Jyothsna, Sri Nair, Sri Sharma, Sri Narayana, Sri Shekar, Sri Paul, Sri Sanjeeva Rao and my deputies in coaching. I remain forever thankful to my guruji Sri Narayanadutta Srimali.

I thank my friends Sri Vijay Ananad, Sri Dutta, Sri Prem Sachdev, Sri Anand Pal Reddy, Sri Jayanand, Sri Damodar Reddy, Sri P Surendar Reddy, Sri Y Ranga Rao, Sri Tyag Mohan Reddy, Sri Narsing Raj, Sri B V K Raju, Sri Raghavendra Rao, Late Sri Laddu Sattiah, Sri Manmohan, Ramayya, Sri Suresh Goud, Sri E Gopal, Sri Surya Prakash, Sri Shamshuddin, Sri Chandra Shekar, Sri Sudhir, Sri Ramu(Tirupathi), Sri Venugopal, Sri Shravan, Sri Chari, Sri Laddu Raju, Sri Potaraju, Sri Krishnna. Syed and AKBER.