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Nitish Kumar Reddy Name Kaki Nitish Kumar Reddy Born 26 May 2003 (age 21) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India Nickname NKR Batting Right-handed Bowling Right-arm medium-fast Role All-rounder International information National side India (2024—present) Test debut (cap 315) 22 November 2024 v Australia Last Test 26 December 2024 v Australia T20I debut (cap 116) 6 October 2024 v Bangladesh Last T20I 12 October 2024 v Bangladesh Domestic team information Years Team 2020–present Andhra Pradesh 2023–present Sunrisers Hyderabad Career statistics Competition Test T20I FC LA Matches 4 3 17 22 Runs scored 284 90 566 403 Batting average 68.14 45.0 20.96 36.63 100s/50s 1/1 0/1 1/2 0/4 Top score 105* 74 159 60* Balls bowled 78 54 2,222 608 Wickets 2 3 52 14 Bowling average 25.0 23.66 22.96 42.07 5 wickets in innings 0 0 2 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0 Best bowling 1/21 2/23 5/53 3/23 C[29/12, 5:33 am] precious: Nitish Kumar Reddy (Telugu: [nitiːʃ kumaːɾ ɾeɖːiː]; born 26 May 2003) is an Indian International cricketer who is an all-rounder. He bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium fast. He plays for Andhra in domestic cricket & plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League.[1] He made his first-class debut on 27 January 2020, for Andhra in the 2019–20 Ranji Trophy.[2] He made his List A debut on 20 February 2021, for Andhra in the 2020–21 Vijay Hazare Trophy.[3] He made his Twenty20 debut on 4 November 2021, for Andhra in the 2021–22 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.[4] Nitish made his T20I debut on 6 October 2024 and his Test cricket debut for India on 22 November 2024 during the 2024-25 Border–Gavaskar Trophy.[5] Reddy scored his first test hundred in the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2024. [29/12, 5:33 am] precious: Early life and career Nitish[6] was born on 26 May 2003 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, and is the son of former Hindustan Zinc employee Mutyala Reddy.[7][8][9] Nitish started playing cricket at the age of 5 with a plastic bat and would regularly visit the Hindustan Zinc grounds to watch seniors play cricket. With support from his father, who quit his job when he was transferred to Udaipur, to help his son pursue a cricket career, Nitish visited VDCA camps and initially trained under coaches Kumara swamy, Krishna Rao and Watekar.[10] Nitish said of his father’s decision: “I was 12 or 13 when my dad quit his job. He was transferred to Udaipur. He analysed the cricket there and was afraid of the politics that might affect my game. He quit his job and dedicated his time to my game. Relatives questioned his decisions. He is the first person who believed in me”.[11] Nitish was spotted by former Indian cricketer and selector MSK Prasad during Under-12 and Under-14 age group matches and got picked up to train in the Andhra Cricket Association (ACA) academy in Kadapa under the coaching of Madhusudhana Reddy and Srinivasa Rao.[12] He followed this up with a trailblazing season scoring 441 against Nagaland, the quadruple ton coming in just 345 deliveries and ending up with 1237 runs at an average of 176.41, a tournament record, along with 26 wickets in the 2017-18 Vijay Merchant Trophy. This earned him the BCCI ‘Best Cricketer in the Under -16’ Jagmohan Dalmiya award for the season 2017–2018. Nitish is the first player from the ACA to receive the award.[13][14 [29/12, 5:34 am] precious: series which held at Delhi on 9 October 2024 where he scored 74 runs of 35 balls with a strike rate of 217 and in the same match he bowled with 2/23 including the important wicket of Mahmudullah and awarded player of the match. With his excellent performance in the series he was named in the squad of Border-Gavaskar Trophy with[17] and his Test debut for India on 22 November 2024, in Perth, during the Border–Gavaskar Trophy series.[5] Nitish Kumar was top scorer with 41 runs in first innings of this match and he scored 38 runs in 2nd innings as well and again he scored 42 runs each in both innings of 2nd test held at Adelide and with his contribution india avoids follow on and scored precious runs in third test match too. Fourth test match of series which is Boxing Day test held at Melbourne where in fielding he takes superb catch of pat Cummins and In 1st innings of the test he came at 7th position at score of 196/6 and built crucial partnership of 128 runs of 285 balls with Washington Sundar and in the same match Nithish has scored his first international test Hundred under critical conditions. His unique century celebration was attributed to the protagonist Amarendra Bahubali from the blockbuster film Bahubali . Nitish has the potential to emerge as one of the greatest batting all-rounders of India with his ice-cool demeanour, perseverance and relentless devotion towards