Girinath Reddy

In an engrossing final, Kings XI held their nerve to eke out a close four-wicket win over Titans XI in the Karbonn Harmony City T20 Andhra Tournament in Anantapur on Sunday. Electing to bat, Titans made a competitive 185 for four thanks to a half-century by C Kranthi Kumar. Kranthi set the tone with a 55-ball 65 which contained four fours and two sixes.

Abhishek M Reddy hit a fine half-century in Rayalaseema Kings’ 28-run win over Coastal Riders in the ACA’s Shriram Andhra Premier League at the ACA-VDCA stadium here on Thursday. Uttarandhra Lions beat Rayalaseema Kings by five wickets on Wednesday night’s rain-hit league match.

South zone beat North zone by five wickets to top the table in the ACA men’s T20 inter-zone tournament at the ACA complex, Mulapadu on Thursday. On Wednesday, they defeated Central Zone by 10 runs.

Tamil Nadu made 122 for 3 in 50 overs at stumps on the second day after bowling out Andhra for 216 in the first innings of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'B' match on Wednesday.

Andhra Pradesh opened the innings with Maheep Kumar scoring an unbeaten double century of 240 runs off 354 balls with 3 sixes and 7 fours. P Girinath Reddy hit 113 runs off 156 balls with 15 fours and 1 six. Andhra Pradesh piled up 417 for six against Chandigarh in the Col CK Nayudu Trophy League match at the AC Arayasrr Stadium, Kadapa on Monday. Andhra resumed at 68 for one on the second day and have a lead of 231 runs at stumps. Maheep shared 66 runs for the second wicket with Vamsikrishna 24 runs for the fifth wicket and 235 runs for the sixth wicket with Girinath. Brief scores: Chandigarh 186 vs Andhra 4176 in 121 overs Maheep Kumar 240 batting P Girinath Reddy 113 Mohammad Ashad 465jyothi congratulatedthe Visakhapatnam Athletics Association congratulated Women’s 100m hurdles National Record Holder Yerraji Jyothi on her selection to the Indian team participating in the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships to be held in Astana, Kazakhstan from February 10 to 12. President of the Association, D. Nageswara Rao

Visakhapatnam medium pacer P Girinath Reddy took five wickets and leftarm spinner M Anjaneyulu claimed three wickets, even as Yuvraj Chowdary hit a century to help Chandigarh score 186 on the first day of the Col CK Nayudu Trophy League match at the Acarsrr Stadium in Kadapa on Sunday. The hosts took control of the first day after winning the toss and put Chandigarh in deep trouble losing eight wickets for 73 runs before Yuvraj Chowdary added 60 runs for the ninth wicket with Mandeep Singh 10 and 53 for the last wicket with Md Asad 6 not out. Chandigarh were in deep trouble losing eight wickets for 73 runs before Yuvraj Chowdary added 60 runs for the ninth wicket with Mandeep Singh 10 and 53 for the last wicket with Md Asad 6 not out.

Andhra made it two-in-a-row as they registered a six-wicket win over Madhya Pradesh in their Vijay Hazare Trophy clash at the Pachaiyappa's College ground here on Tuesday.

A four-wicket haul by medium-pacer M Mohammed and two late strikes by spinner R Sai Kishore helped Tamil Nadu reduce Andhra to 198 for 8 at stumps on the opening day of Ranji Trophy Group B match at CSR Sarma College Ground on Tuesday.

Plant a sapling to make April cool. To make a beginning, a group of lake volunteers planted five saplings on Friday.Balaji Raghotam, a lake volunteer, said, “The first day of April is known to us as April Fools’ Day.

B Anirudh Sitaram (103 n.o., 10x4, 4x6) and M Abhinav (6 for 45) were the stars for Tamil Nadu as the hosts defeated Hyderabad by nine wickets in their South Zone U-23 One-day clash here on Saturday.

Visakhapatnam andhra started the long haul of overtaking the Chhattisgarh’s first innings total of 446 in the CK Nayudu Trophy League Match and are 90 for two at Stumps on the Second Day at the Sector 10 BPS Stadium in Bhilai on Monday. Chhattisgarh’s Middleorder batter Sanjeet Desai scored 166 runs to lead the team’s batting. Saketh Ram took four wickets, Ks Raju and T Vijay two each and P Girinath Reddy and M Anjaneyulu one each for Andhra. Brief Scores: Chhattisgarh 446 in 1384 overs Sanjeet Desai 166 pm Yadav 79, Gagandeep Singh 66, Aditya Singh 41, Harsh Sharma 36, Saketh Ram 484 vs Andhra 902 in 37 overs Vamsi Krishna 35, Harsha Vardhan 28, TNN

Visakhapatnam opener Sraman Nigrodh scored a century on the first day of a group league match of the CK Nayudu Trophy Tournament, helping Bihar to post 308 for eight. Andhra captain P Girinath Reddy won the toss and put Bihar in, picking up three wickets to reduce Bihar to three for 42. Southpaw Nigrodh rescued Bihar with two century partnerships, 117 for the fourth with Vivek Kumar 41 and 100 for the fifth with Paramjeet Singh 55. Y Sandeep broke both the partnerships Girinath finished the day with four wickets. Brief scores: Bihar 3008 in 892 overs, Sraman Nigrodh 143, Paramjeet Singh 55, Vivek Kumar 41, P Girinath Reddy 479 vs Andhra. The former state sports minister Vatti Vasantha Kumar passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital on Sunday. Dr Vasantha Kumar was elected from Unguturu in West Godavari and was also a good tennis player and did his Ph.D. in Commerce and Management under the guidance of I. Muralikrishna Rao in 2014. Former secretary of the AU Sports Board, Pr. Narayanaswami and others condol

Half-centuries by Himalay Agarwal (59) and captain Akshat Reddy (57) helped Hyderabad reach 226 for seven in 81.4 overs on day one of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'B' match here on Sunday.

Sk Rasheed led Rayalaseema Kings to a five-wicket win with two balls to spare over Uttarandhra Lions in the Eliminator of the ACA’s Shriram Andhra Premier League (APL) at the ACA-VDCA stadium here on Friday.

Chhattisgarh registered a convincing eight wicket win over Andhra Pradesh in the Vijay Hazare Trophy One Day match, played at Bangalore, on Wednesday. Winning the toss, Chhattisgarh opted to bowl first. Put into bat, Andhra Pradesh could score 144 after losing all their wickets, with 7.

Ashwin Hebbar slammed an unbeaten 101 and powered Andhra to a seven-wicket win over Tamil Nadu in a Vijay Hazare Trophy Group B match at the Holkar stadium on Monday.