2017-18 Ranji Trophy: 5 players who changed sides ahead of the upcoming season

#3 Ambati Rayudu (Vidarbha to Hyderabad)

Ambati Rayudu set for a third stint with Hyderabad

After making his first-class debut for Hyderabad as a sixteen-year-old, Ambati Rayudu moved to Andhra a couple of years later before he jumped into the Indian Cricket League bandwagon. When ICL was terminated, Rayudu returned to Hyderabad for the 2009-10 season after BCCI offered an amnesty to all the players who opted for ICL ahead of the 2009-10 season.

Later, Hyderabad were relegated to the Plate division and Rayudu left his home to further his ambitions of representing India. He joined Baroda and the move paid off as he went on to represent the national team before he left Baroda and joined Vidarbha for whom he didn't play a single FC match due to an injury.

Again, the discarded Indian batsman has decided to return home, for the second time, as the Vidarbha Cricket Association gave him the NoC to leave the team and represent their rivals.

This is the sixth time Rayudu has changed sides in the Indian domestic circuit and remember that he was away from the domestic scene for three years due to his ICL commitments.