HYDERABAD: Former India captain and politician Mohammad Azharuddin was on Friday elected as the president of the Hyderabad Cricket Association.
The 56-year-old won the elections 147-73, IANS reports.
Azhar filed his nomination for the President’s post last week after it was proposed by Adnan Mahmood and seconded by Zeeshan Adnan Mahmood.
Azhar played 99 Tests and 334 One Day Internationals for India scoring 6215 and 9378 runs respectively.
The elegant middle-order batsman’s international playing career came to an end when he was deemed to be involved in a match-fixing scandal in 2000 and subsequently banned by the BCCI for life.
In 2012, the Andhra Pradesh High Court declared the life ban illegal. A division Bench of the High Court set aside the order of the City Civil Court, which had upheld the ban after Azharuddin had challenged it.
In 2009, Azharuddin was elected as a Member of Parliament from Moradabad constituency on an Indian National Congress party ticket.
