Sr actor Dr Mohan Babu's elder son and Tollywood Hero Manchu Vishnu became the partner of ICL franchisee of Hyderabad Heroes by buying some shares. In this regard a press conference was held at Taj Krishna on August 21 in which Manchu Vishnu, former cricket player Kiran More and Hyderabad Heroes Business Head of ICL Sanjay Reddy participated.

Kiran More warmly welcomed Vishnu into the ICL group and said that he is confident about Vishnu as co-owner would take Hyderabad Heroes a step ahead. He further added by saying that they are going to have 3 ICL tourneys this year. Later he presented a Hyderabad Heroes T Shirt to Vishnu with Vishnu Manchu written on it and number of that T-shirt is 1.

Vishnu conveyed that his desire was to become a cricketer but because his father wished to see him as a hero, he had chosen films as his career. "I even represented JNTU in zonals", said he while recollecting his college days. "Since the standard of cricket has further gone high due to ICL tourney, I immediately accepted the proposal of co-ownership from Sanjay Reddy" said Vishnu who is happy that by being the part of ICL he will get the opportunity to encourage the young talent.

Sanjay Reddy expressed his happiness to have launched a website called hyderabadheroes.com in which the related information about their team is given. He opined that Vishnu, with is passion and love for the game would certainly take the Hyderabad Heroes team forward.

In the end the team of Hyderabad Heroes presented a bat to Vishnu who is now the brand ambassador of Hyderabad Heroes.