Nitish Kumar Reddy celebrates his maiden Test century (PTI Photo) Melbourne: It was an absolute theatre at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Saturday (28 December) when Nitish Kumar Reddy realised his dream. The dream of scoring his maiden Test hundred and it couldn’t have come at a better venue. In front of 83,073 fans,…
Nitish Kumar Reddy and his father (Photo: Agency/video grab) Nitish Kumar Reddy, India’s latest Test centurion, owes his place among India’s cricket heroes to the sacrifices made by his father, Mutyala Reddy, who incidentally was present at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday and watched his son score a well-deserved maiden international and Test hundred….
Nitish Kumar Reddy (Getty Images) Nitish Kumar Reddy went through a few anxious moments in the nervous 90s, but more on the non-striker’s end, before he scored the boundary that brought up a much-deserved maiden Test and international hundred for the 21-year-old all-rounder, who has been the find of this Australian tour for India.On the…
NEW DELHI: Australia opener Sam Konstas may have declared that Virat Kohli is his favourite player in the world and given the Indian batting superstar the clean chit over his shoulder-bump, but things are different when it comes to on field action.The first day of the Boxing Day Test between India and Australia at the…
Virat Kohli‘s controversial shoulder-bump to Australia‘s teenage debutant Sam Konstas on the first day of the fourth Test was expected to turn the Melbourne crowd hostile towards the Indian batting legend, but some of the fans probably took it a little too far by passing comments that upset Kohli while he was walking back to…
Sam Konstas hit Jasprit Bumrah for two sixes during his knock. (Photo by William West/AFP via Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Sam Konstas‘ dazzling Test debut on Day 1 of the Boxing Day Test threw India off guard at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Thursday.With the Border-Gavaskar Trophy still up for grabs with the series locked…
NEW DELHI: Nitish Kumar Reddy has been a revelation with the bat in this edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series.Having made his debut in the Perth Test, Reddy had scores of 41, 38*, 42, 42 and 16 heading into the Boxing Day Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.Reddy arrived at the crease at…
Rohit Sharma. (Pic Credit – X) NEW DELHI: Legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has shed light on the reason behind India captain Rohit Sharma‘s recent struggles with form. Gavaskar expressed apprehension about Rohit’s declining reflexes during the Boxing Day Test against Australia in Melbourne.The former Indian captain observed notable issues with the 37-year-old’s footwork, which have…
Sanjay Manjrekar and Irfan Pathan (Photo credit: Screengrab from video posted on X) NEW DELHI: Tempers flared up during a post-match chat between former cricketers Sanjay Manjrekar and Irfan Pathan over the disastrous Virat Kohli-Yashasvi Jaiswal run out that put India on the backfoot late on the second day of the Boxing Day Test in…
Rohit Sharma during the Boxing Day Test against Australia at the MCG. (Photo by Martin Keep/AFP via Getty Images) NEW DELHI: It appears that Rohit Sharma is at the end of his game. “Tough times for him,” the legendary Sunil Gavaskar said while on air with broadcasters ‘7Cricket’.“There will be a second innings and two…
