Hyderabad Heroes was one of the eight teams that competed in the Indian Cricket League

Indian Cricket League

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. The team was based in Hyderabad and its captain was former New Zealand

New Zealand cricket team

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 player Chris Harris.

Players

The squad announced for the inaugural tournament was composed of five international cricketers. The rest of team also included star domestic cricketers Ambati Rayudu

Ambati Rayudu

Ambati Thirupathi Rayudu , is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He was banned from Indian cricket due to his signing with the rebel ICL. Subsequently Rayudu left the ICL and, following an amnesty offer from BCCI, returned to Indian domestic...

 & Stuart Binny

Stuart Binny

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. Rayudu and six others from the Hyderabad Ranji Trophy

Ranji Trophy

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 team had joined the ICL.

Former Team

• Anirudh Singh (Hyderabad)
• Ambati Rayudu
  Ambati Rayudu
  Ambati Thirupathi Rayudu , is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He was banned from Indian cricket due to his signing with the rebel ICL. Subsequently Rayudu left the ICL and, following an amnesty offer from BCCI, returned to Indian domestic...
  
   (Hyderabad)
• Abdul Razzaq (Pakistan)
• Syed Shahubuddin (Hyderabad)
• Chris Harris
  Chris Harris
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   (New Zealand)
• Nicky Boje
  Nicky Boje
  Nico "Nicky" Boje is a South African cricketer who played in 43 Tests and 115 One Day Internationals for South Africa, and attended Grey College in Bloemfontein...
  
   (South Africa)
• Stuart Binny
  Stuart Binny
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   (Karnataka)
• Jimmy Maher
  Jimmy Maher
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   (Australia)
• Justin Kemp
  Justin Kemp
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   (South Africa)
• Inder Shekhar Reddy (Hyderabad)
• Vinay Kumar (Hyderabad)
• Ibrahim Khaleel (Hyderabad)
• Kaushik Reddy (Hyderabad)
• Bheema Rao
• Alfred Absolom (Hyderabad)
• Shashank Nag (Hyderabad)
• P.S. Niranjan (Hyderabad)
• Baburao Yadav
• Zakaria Zuffri (Assam/Railways)

Coach

The inaugural coach for the Hyderabad Heroes was the former Pakistani wicketkeeper Moin Khan

Moin Khan

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. Steve Rixon

Steve Rixon

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was coach of the team before the ICL's collapse.

Previous performance

Tournament	Placement
2007 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Indian Championship	5th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 50s	6th place
2008 Indian Cricket League Edelweiss 20s Challenge	Winners
2008 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Domestic Tournament	6th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Indian Championship, 2008/09	2nd Place