Visakhapatnam: Nellore’s left-arm spinner T Bharath (7/102) and Kadapa’s pacer Areef (7/44) scalped seven wickets each on the first day of the ACA South Zone men’s inter-district tournament on Tuesday.
Visakhapatnam and Guntur topped the North Zone and Central Zone tables with 14 and 15 points respectively. East Godavari and West Godavari were runners-up.
Brief scores: At Nellore: Anantapur 271 in 69 overs (Rohith Roshan 69, B Vinay Kumar 62; T Bharath 7/102) vs Nellore 79/3 in 18 overs.
At Venkatagiri: Kurnool 214 in 55.5 overs (S Uday Theja Reddy 61*, Khanish 53; Areef 7/44) vs Kadapa 88/6 in 26.4 overs.
Sumanth, Rithvik shineVizianagaram’s Sumanth took 8/28 to earn first innings lead to his side against Guntur while Visakhapatnam’s E Eswar Rithvik hit 182 against Krishna in the ACA under-19 inter-district matches.
Brief scores: Group B (Kadapa): Visakhapatnam 356/4 in 89.5 overs (G Eswar Rithvik 182, M Yuvan 95) vs Krishna. Chittoor 293/7 in 91 overs (Charanjith 66, Lohith Lakshmi Narayana 53) vs Kadapa. Nellore 122 in 29 overs (G Manvith Reddy 59) vs West Godavari 268/5 in 60 overs (Revanth Naga Kumar 121*, Rakshann 76). Group A (Guntur): Anantapur 155/3 in 34 overs vs Kurnool. At Narasaraopeta: Vizianagaram 144 in 44.3 overs (N Nivash 64*) and 9/0 in three overs vs Guntur 128 in 35.2 overs (Chandu 52; Sumanth 8/28). At Mangalagiri: Prakasam 121 in 38.2 overs (Moses 5/29) vs East Godavari 119/3 in 31.3 overs.
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