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Nitish Reddy plays domestic cricket for Andhra.
Andhra Cricket Association (ACA) will give a cash prize of Rs 25 lakh to Nitish Reddy, who led India’s comeback by scoring a century in the Melbourne Test. On Saturday, Nitish scored the first century of his career. He is still unbeaten on 105 runs.
ACA President Kesineni Shivanath said, it is a happy moment for Andhra Cricket Association. Andhra’s Nitish is performing well for India in Test and T-20. As an honour, Nitish is being given a prize money of Rs 25 lakh.
Nitish added 127 runs for the eighth wicket with all-rounder Washington Sundar.
One of the great innings in history: Gavaskar With the help of 21-year-old Reddy’s century, India scored 358 runs after losing 9 wickets at stumps on the third day. Reddy, who performed brilliantly in the entire series, also played a brilliant innings in the fourth Test. His innings has been described by former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar as one of the greatest Test innings in India’s Test history.
Scored a century in difficult circumstances Nitish took Team India out of difficult situations on the third day of the Melbourne Test and scored the first century (105* runs) of his international career. When Nitish came to bat, 6 wickets had fallen in the team’s first innings. Nitish made a partnership of 127 runs with all-rounder Washington Sundar.
Most runs for India in the series Nitish made his debut in the first test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Nitish had scored the highest score of 41 runs in the first innings of Perth Test. In the second innings also he played a quick unbeaten inning of 38 runs. He scored 42-42 runs in both the innings of Adelaide Test. Nitish has scored 284 runs in 6 innings of this series and he is the highest run scorer for India in the series.