The Andhra Pradesh state minister for sports, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, stated that all the IPL-3 matches slated to be played in Hyderabad were being moved out...

The inaugural had already been pulled out of the city because of the Telangana agitation. The minister had been told by the organisers that all matches were moved out. Two of the seven home matches of the Deccan Chargers are scheduled to be played in Visakhapatnam.