Kadapa win ACA SZ tourney

Visakhapatnam: Kadapa won the ACA South Zone under-19 inter-district one-dayers tournament by topping the table after they beat Anantapur by three wickets to register their third victory in Anantapur on Monday. Guntur beat Prakasam by one wicket with their off-spinner Mukesh claiming five wickets.
Brief scores: South Zone at Anantapur: Anantapur 143/6 in 24 overs (KH Veera Reddy 62) lost to Kadapa 144/7 in 23.2 overs (E Guru Vignesh 90*).MoM: Guru Vignesh.Chittoor 198/8 in 26 overs (Lohith Lakshmi Narayana 88) bt Kurnool 159/7 in 26 overs. MoM: Lohith Lakshmi Narayana.North Zone at Tekkali: Visakhapatnam 235/5 in 30 overs (Rithvik 82, KAS Prasad 49, B Yashwanth 42) bt Vizianagaram 146/6 in 30 overs (KB Durgesh Naidu 79).Central Zone at Narasaraopeta: West Godavari 159/4 in 36 overs (Revanth Naga Kumar 69, Charan Sai Teja 40) lost to Krishna 162/6 in 28 overs. At Guntur: Guntur 176/3 in 26 overs (KL Srinivas 68, G Dev Pramod 57) bt Prakasam 146/9 in 26 overs (K Anand 46; Mukesh 5/42).Men’s one-day: South Zone at Kadapa: Kadapa 136 in 43.3 overs lost to Kurnool 138/3 in 27.3 overs (SS Sai Surya Teja 72*, UMS Girinath 49*). Nellore 195 in 34.1 overs (Madhav 70, Farhad Khadri 40) lost to Anantapur 196/9 in 33.3 overs (Girinath 100*, B Vinay Kumar 45).North Zone at Chintalavalsa: East Godavari 307/6 in 50 overs (Tarun 76, SV Rahul 64) bt Srikakulam 251 in 44.2 overs (Vijay 77, SDNV Prasad 57, Lavan 41; Karthik 4/45).At Visakhapatnam: Vizianagaram 338/9 in 50 overs (P Tapaswi 134, Sandeep Ch 46) bt Visakhapatnam 235/9 in 46.2 overs (Harsha Vardhan 68, K Dheeraj Lakshman 54, P Avinash 42).Central Zone at Mulapadu: Prakasam 232/6 in 31 overs (K Kranthi Kiran 100, Ch Kranthi Kumar 69) lost to Krishna 233/8 in 30.1 overs (MS Nikhil Naidu 95).U-15 girls one-day: Central Zone at Mangalagiri: West Godavari 104/3 in 25 overs lost to Guntur 105/2 in 23.2 overs (Deeksha 48). Krishna 175/4 in 25 overs (Sruzana 63) bt Prakasam 92/7 in 25 overs (V Sethusai 52; Sravanthi 4/13). South Zone at Nellore: Chittoor 225/2 in 25 overs (Subhasri 102 retd hurt, Greeshma Saini 54) bt Kurnool 70/5 in 25 overs. Kadapa 67 in 20 overs lost to Anantapur 71/2 in 11.4 overs.North Zone at Visakhapatnam: East Godavari 91/7 in 19 overs bt Vizianagaram 90/3 in 19 overs. Srikakulam 50 in 21.4 overs lost to Visakhapatnam 51/1 in 7.4 overs.
Former DD Venkateswara Rao passes away
Former deputy director of the Sports Authority of AP, Kadiyala Venkateswara Rao died at his residence at Kalivaram village in Guntur district on Monday. He was 76. During his tenure, Venkateswara Rao was involved in conducting some events of the National Games in 2002 here. Later he became active in the exploration of prehistoric sites and Buddhist sites and identified several sites in Guntur, Krishna, East Godavari and Srikakulam districts. The Visakhapatnam Athletics Association condoled the death of Venkateswara Rao, said its secretary M Narayana Rao.