Overview
- Hyderabad Cricket Association has signed Wasim Jaffer to a two-year mentor role that covers both the senior side and the age-group teams.
- The hire is a key move in new head of cricket operations Ambati Rayudu’s programme to reshape coaching and talent development at HCA.
- Jaffer will travel with teams and work across matches and age levels to instil a winning mindset and align coaching practices.
- The appointment responds to Hyderabad’s modest 2025–26 campaign, when the side managed just one outright Ranji win and failed to progress in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
- Jaffer brings a deep domestic résumé — a 10-time Ranji winner, the competition’s top run-scorer, and post-retirement coaching roles with several Indian state teams and as a consultant with the BCB and IPL’s Punjab Kings — which HCA expects to raise standards and strengthen the pipeline alongside the Telangana T20 League and district infrastructure projects.