The Hyderabad District Badminton Association (HDBA) will conduct a tournament for boys, girls under-13, 15, 17 and 19 years of age, men, women and veterans over 45 and 55 years at the Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy indoor stadium, Yusufguda from June 27 to 29.

Those selected from this event will represent the district in this year’s Telangana championships.

Besides registration costing Rs. 100, there will be entry fees of Rs. 200 for each player in singles and Rs. 400 for doubles. Date of birth certificates/proof of age is mandatory for all players except those registered with the Badminton Association of India (BAI).

Entries may be sent to G. Vijayaraghavan, Organising Secretary, HDBA, who may be contacted on mobile no: 9246280256 or K. Pani Rao, Secretary, HDBA on 9440065604. The said tournament will be inaugurated on Friday at 9 a.m.

Emphatic win for

West Godavari

West Godavari scored an emphatic 10-wicket victory over Guntur in the ACA under-19 women’s inter-district tournament at Guntur on Wednesday.

The scores: Guntur 106 for six in 25 overs (Ch. Jhansi Lakshmi 45 n.o.) lost to West Godavari 107 for no loss in 19.4 overs (K. Hepsiba 61).

Prakasam 52 in 24.5 overs ((K. Dhathri three for five) lost to Krishna 53 for one in 5.2 overs.

Big win for Kurnool

Kurnool defeated Nellore by 206 runs in the ACA under-19 inter-district tournament for Plate Group at Vizianagaram on Wednesday.

The scores:

At Vizianagaram: Nellore 116 and 174 in 58.1 overs (Nivrit Ram 75, Veerender Singh five for 40) lost to Kurnool 506 for eight in 120 overs.

Srikakulam 144 and 260 for nine decl. 63.4 overs (Rakesh Augustine 83) drew with Krishna 146 and 199 for six in 68 overs (E. Koutilya 46, M. Praneeth 40).

At Vijayawada:

Vizag 400 for six decl. and 210 for seven in 50 overs (Dheeraj Laxman 69, R. Atchutrao 27, V. Ch. Sandeep 28) drew with Chittoor 148.

At Ongole:

Kadapa 154 and 275 bt Prakasam 62 and 123 in 40.3 overs (Kranthi Kumar 55, S.M.D. Rafi five for 51, Hari Kumar Reddy four for 27).

At Perecherla: Guntur 313 and 181 for six decl in 29 overs (K. Maheep Kumar 76, P. Akhil 24, G.V.V. Tarun Kumar four for 36) drew with East Godavari 200 and 155 for five in 55 overs (S. Yudish 73 n.o, Gopinath three for 34).

At Vizag:

Anantapur 313 and 259 for six decl. in 59 overs (P. Ranjit Reddy 112, M. Raja Sekhar 104, U.A.V. Varma- 3 for 63) drew with West Godavari 201 and 120 for no loss in 26 overs (U.A.V. Varma 55 n.o., B.H. Mounish Varma 51 n.o).

Cricket tournament

As many as 32 teams from all over Anantapur District will take part in the annual RDT rural cricket tournament which begins on June 26 at Anantapur.

The event, held for the 15th year in a row, will be held in three grounds.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sport / Hyderabad – June 26th, 2014