Nitish Reddy Test career: India’s batsmen suffered a disastrous defeat in the second Test match against Australia. And there is more than one great batsman in the Indian team. India had to pay the price for the poor performance of the batsmen and lost the match by 10 wickets. The team scored 180 points in the first game and 175 points in the second game. Only Nitish Reddy could stand up to Australia’s fast bowlers. His batting definitely succeeded in impressing. He was also India’s highest scorer in both innings of the second Test.
Batting strong in second Test against Australia
Nitish Kumar Reddy made his debut in the first Test match against Australia. He then played 41 and 38 innings and also took a wicket. In the second Test match, he continued the same form and performed strongly. He scored 42-42 points in both games. The special thing is that Nitish plays aggressively and can score runs as well. He played well in adverse conditions. The same goes when other Indian batsmen fail to score runs.
Big hitter falls behind
He has played a total of two Test matches in his career so far, both on Australian soil, in which he scored 163 runs, during which he also hit seven sixes. Nitish became the Indian batsman to hit the most sixes in the Test series in Australia. He broke Virender Sehwag’s record. Sehwag hit 6 sixes in the 2003-04 series in Australia. He subsequently scored a total of 464 runs in 8 innings. What’s special is that he broke Sehwag’s record by playing just two Tests. And in the Test series in Australia, even batsmen like Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma could not hit 7 sixes.
Indian batsmen who have hit most sixes in the Test series in Australia:
Nitish Reddy- 7 sixes, 2024-25
Virender Sehwag- 6 sixes, 2003-04
Murali Vijay- 6 sixes, 2014-15
Sachin Tendulkar- 5 sixes, 2007-08
Rohit Sharma – 5 sixes, 2014-15
Mayank Agarwal- 5 sixes, 2018-19
Rishabh Pant- 5 sixes, 2018-19
Also has an excellent record in domestic cricket
21-year-old Nitish Kumar Reddy has a stellar record in domestic cricket. He scored a total of 942 points in 25 Division I games. Apart from this, he has scored 403 points in 22 Group A games. He plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL and has scored 303 runs in 15 IPL games so far, including two half-centuries.
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