Nitish Reddy and Virender Sehwag
Nitish Reddy Test Career: Indian team’s batsmen flopped badly in the second test match against Australia. Whereas there were more than one great batsman present in Team India. Team India had to pay the price for the poor performance of the batsmen by losing the match by 10 wickets. The team scored 180 runs in the first innings and 175 runs in the second innings. Only Nitish Reddy could stand against Australia’s deadly fast bowlers. He has definitely been successful in impressing with his batting. He was also the highest scorer for India in both the innings of the second test.
Strong batting in the second test against Australia
Nitish Kumar Reddy made his debut in the first test match against Australia. Then he played innings of 41 and 38 runs and also took one wicket. In the second test match, he continued the same form and performed strongly. He scored 42-42 runs in both the innings. The special thing was that Nitish scored runs while playing aggressively. He has batted well in adverse conditions. That too when other Indian batsmen could not score big.
big batsmen left behind
He has played a total of two Test matches in his career so far, which he has played on Australian soil, in which he has scored 163 runs and during this he has also hit 7 sixes. Nitish has become the Indian batsman to hit the most sixes in a Test series in Australia. He has broken the record of Virender Sehwag. Sehwag had hit 6 sixes during the series in Australia in 2003-04. Then he scored a total of 464 runs in 8 innings. The special thing is that he has destroyed Sehwag’s record by playing just two Tests. Whereas during a Test series in Australia, even batsmen like Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma could not hit 7 sixes.
Indian batsmen who hit the most number of sixes during a 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
Strong record in domestic cricket also
21 year old Nitish Kumar Reddy has a strong record in domestic cricket. He has scored a total of 942 runs in 25 first class matches. Apart from this, he has 403 runs in his name in 22 List-A matches. He plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL and has so far scored 303 runs in 15 IPL matches, which includes two half-centuries.
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