Vizag’s Shabnam in India U-19 team

Visakhapatnam: Local girl Md Shabnam, a medium pacer, was selected to the India U-19 women’s team for the five-match T20 series against New Zealand to be held in Mumbai from November 27 to December 6. Shabnam is the fourth girl from Andhra to represent India. Earlier Sneha Deepthi, from Visakhapatnam, R Kalpana and S. Meghana (from Krishna) have played for India.They are with the Railways now. ACA is confident that left-arm medium pacer K. Anjali Saranya, leg-spinner G Saranya would soon made it into the Indian team.
Revanth’s ton Andhra in strong position
Opener K Revanth Reddy hit third century in as many matches to take Andhra to a position of strength against Odisha in the Cooch-Behar trophy tournament group C league match at the Barabati stadium in Cuttack on Sunday. At stumps on the second day, the Kadapa boy Revanth is batting on 127 after getting involved in good partnerships with his captain SV Rahul and M Abhinav and currently with GSP Teja.
Brief scores: Odisha 161 vs Andhra 249/3 in 101.0 overs (K Revanth Reddy 127 batting, GSP Teja 37 batting, M. Abhinav 35, SV Rahul 33).
Veera Reddy, Lokesh slam tons; Vamsi claims 7 wkts
KH Veera Reddy and K Venkat Lokesh slammed centuries and Vamsi Krishna took seven wickets in Anantapur’s 460-run win over KBS in the U-18 Ananta Premier League.
Brief scores: U-18 boys: Anantapur 498 in 48.1 overs (KH Veera Reddy 175, K Venkat Lokesh 109, Sateesh Kumar 68; Bharat 5/208, Aravind 4/130) bt BKS 38 in 12.3 overs (Vamsi Krishna 7/12). U-12 mixed gender: ASV 106/2 in 20 overs (Hemachander Naik 69) bt TCA 99/8 in 20 overs (Hema Vardhini 29).