New Delhi, April 22 -- India's former cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin has expressed being in pain after the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) was ordered to remove his name from the North Pavilion Stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Uppal, Hyderabad. Justice V Eswaraiah, the HCA's Ethics Officer and Ombudsman, issued the directive that has left Azharuddin feeling heartbroken and prompted him to urge BCCI to take action.

The controversy started when a local group called the Lords Cricket Club filed a petition with the Hyderabad Cricket Association. They claimed that Azharuddin, who was HCA president, had wrongly named the North Pavilion Stand after himself. According to their argument, it was a conflict of int...