Girinath hits second tonof the match

Visakhapatnam: UMS Girinath scored his second century of the match for Kurnool and Saketh Ram, S Akhil Salunke and N Madhav helped Nellore gain first innings lead over Anantapur in the drawn matches of the ACA South zone tournament at Anantapur on Tuesday. Brief scores: Kurnool 420 & 360/7 decl. in 79.4 overs (UMS Girinath 136, Y. Keshava Kumar 82) drew Kadapa 231 & 50/0 in 16 overs. Nellore 374 & 129/3 in 27 overs (K Revanth Reddy 71, K Nikhileshwar Reddy 51) drew Anantapur 276 in 88.1 overs (B Yogananda 61, MK Datta Reddy 56; Saketh Ram 4/68).Chinna Babu shinesNellore medium pacer D Chinna Babu took five wickets against Kadapa in the ACA tournament in Kadapa.Brief scores: Kadapa 222 in 73 overs (D Ranadheer Reddy 65, N Guru Charan 41, Shaik Mohammad Aslam 41; D. Chinna Babu 5/48, P Sutej Reddy 4/61) vs Nellore 56/1 in 15 overs. Chittoor 181 in 54.4 overs (P Bhavani Prasad 77) vs Anantapur 130/4 in 32 overs (P Arjun Tendulkar 59, KH Veera Reddy 50). Falguni gets 2 more normsFalguni Moogi gained two FA norms after serving as deputy chief arbiter at two GMs tournaments in Hungary recently and is just one more norm away and a pass in the seminar examination, from securing the FIDE arbiter title. The national arbiter secured FA norms at the Vegerkepzo GM tournament in December 2022 and the Rigo Jano memorial GM Open tournament at Balatonlelle in June, informed her father Lokeswara Rao, a manager at HPCL. .Vizag officials for CWG weightliftingOlympic Association of Visakhapatnam’s general secretary and international referee K Suryanarayana and treasurer Mohan Venkatram will officiate at the Commonwealth weightlifting championships in Greater Noida beginning Wednesday. He’s also been named manager of the Indian team for the 20th World aquatics in Fukuoka, Japan from July 14 to 30.