Visakhapatnam: Hyderabad take on Anantapur in the final of the P Dhanunjay Naidu memorial veterans T20 cricket tournament at the YSRR-ACA stadium, Kadapa on Sunday morning. In the semifinals on Saturday, Anantapur beat Vijayawada by seven wickets and Goa defeated Kadapa by seven wickets.
Brief scores: Vijayawada 152/9 in 20 overs (Lenin 40) lost to Anantapur 154/3 in 18.2 overs (Syed Shahabuddin 51 no, Sardar 42 no).
Kadapa 160/5 in 20 overs (Ashwini Kumar Raju 51 no, N Srinivas 49) lost to Goa 163/3 in 19.1 overs (Abhijit Kadam 89).
Rithvik slams centuryOpener G Eswar Rithvik slammed a ton (165, 135b, 4x28) and V Trinadh turned out an all-round show in Vizag veterans’ 166-run win over Symond Blues CC in the VDCA second division league at the Zinc stadium.
Brief scores: Vizag Veterans CC 342/6 in 45 overs (G Eswar Rithvik 165, V Trinadh 75, A Sai Naveen 42; Abhi 3/65) bt Symond Blues CC 176 in 40.1 overs (V Sai Kumar 35, Abhi 33, Sunil Yadav 28; V Trinadh 3/25, KT Surya 3/34).
Sale of tickets for ODIThe Andhra Cricket Association (ACA) is selling match tickets online, through the PayTM app, paytm insider.in on three days, starting on Friday, with a quota of tickets of all denominations for each day, secretary SR Gopinath Reddy informed. Sale of tickets begins at 4 pm and will continue till the day’s quota is exhausted. The sale would commence at 4 pm on Sunday also. ACA adopted this method to avoid criticism in the sale of tickets, a problem it faces every time it organises an ODI or T20I.