Coach of Baroda under-19 team and former Indian player Atul Bedade appreciated the Andhra Cricket Association for starting zonal academies and providing them with international standard facilities for the players.
He said so during the ongoing ACA under-10 quadrangular tournament between Baroda, Mumbai, Bengal and Andhra for the P. Appalaraju Memorial Trophy, at Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram. The tournament is being conducted to help the teams prepare themselves for the Vinoo Mankad and Cooch-Behar tournaments of BCCI.
Vice-president of ACA Trinadha Raju inspected the venues. Member of media committee of ACA N. Vijay Mohan, member of stadium committee N. Srinivasa Raju, coach G.S. Varma, former physical directors in-charge of Andhra University G. Manohara Murthy and M. Kondala Rao were present.