Anantapur clinch SZ T20 title

Visakhapatnam: Anantapur beat Kadapa by one wicket in the final round league match to grab the top position in the ACA South Zone men’s T20 tournament on Wednesday.Brief scores: Kadapa 155 in 18.1 overs (T Vamsi Krishna 31; M. Deepak 3/21, Shoaib Md. Khan 3/ 22) lost to Anantapur 158/9 in 18.4 overs (M Raju Kullayappa 42). Chittoor 170/8 in 20 overs (E Dharani Kumar Naidu 65) lost to Kurnool 173/6 in 18.1 overs . Final standings: 1. Anantapur (16), 2. Kadapa (12), 3. Chittoor (4), 4. Kurnool (4), 5. Nellore (4). Ravikiran, Sai Sravan, Hemanth, Panduranga shineVizianagaram medium pacer M Ravikiran, East Godavari off-spinner TV Sai Sravan and Visakhapatnam leg spinner M Hemanth Reddy recorded five-fors on the first day of the ACA zonal level tournaments. P Panduranga Raju scored a century (104, 77b, 4x8, 6x6x) for East Godavari.Brief scores: NZ: Srikakulam 73 in 22.2 overs (M Ravikiran 5/40, S Durga Prasanth 4/19) lost to Vizianagaram 77/1 in 10.4 overs (J Durga Kumar 31 no). Visakhapatnam 250 in 49.5 overs (M Yuvan 59, M Hemanth Reddy 44; TV Sai Sravan 5/54) bt East Godavari 239 in 47.5 overs (P Panduranga Raju 104, J Surya Chaitanya 52; M Hemanth Reddy 5/33). CZ: Krishna 272/8 in 50 overs (PV Durga Rao 75, G Chanti 58, A Brahma Teja 42) bt Prakasam 180 in 35 overs (J Vishnu Datta 57, A Kiran 40; PK Sri Chakri 4/18, G Chanti 4/32). West Godavari 243/9 in 50 overs (KSN Raju 97; C Siddhardha 4/48) lost to Guntur 247/5 in 40 overs (D Vasantha Vardhan 66; M Roopesh 4/49). Commercial & Engg win TT titles Commercial and Engineering won the men and women team titles respectively in the table tennis event of the ECoRSA, Waltair inter-departmental Sports Mela. Commercial beat Finance department 3-2 in the men’s final and Engineering beat Commercial 3-2 in the women’s final. ECoRWWA president Parijatha Satpathy presented the trophies.