The Indian Premier League has produced yet another fine talent and this time it is the Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Nitish Reddy who delivered some crucial runs with the bat and also a big wicket with the ball to give SRH their first away win of the season, beating Punjab Kings by 2 runs.
Coming in at number four ahead of Heinrich Klaasen who can be destructive in the middle, SRH needed some runs on the board following the dismissals of their big guns in the top order Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma and Aiden Markram.
Nitish stepped up big time for the side and delivered a massive performance, especially with the bat as he scored 64 in 37 balls to get SRH to set a target of 183 runs for PBKS. His knock even impressed the former SRH coach, Brian Lara who is now part of the experts panel with Star Sports.
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“As a coach last year, he was with us. This kid has so much talent. He works hard in the nets, bat and ball,” Lara praised the 20-year-old all-rounder.
The former SRH coach also revealed that the youngster was considered to be in the playing XI in the previous season but due to the side not being able to perform, they decided against utilising the youngster owing to his inexperience.
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“We had many, many conversations about him getting to play but because of where we were, that inexperience couldn’t work for us. It’s great to see him come out and pretty much stamp his position in that SRH team,” added Lara.
Nitish was able to slot in the middle-order as Mayank Agarwal was out injured which meant that Abhishek took the opening spot followed by Markram at number three. Lara however sees the youngster as having a long career in the tournament following his stellar performance.
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“I know Mayank Agarwal is injured, but this guy, he looks like he is ready to spend some time in the IPL,” he added.
Lara deems the performance by the youngster not just a lucky break but believes that he can go a long way in the IPL. “Nitish Reddy coming in at number 4. As a young man, just playing his 8th T20 game. He has got the talent. He shows he has got the skills. That was not a fluke, that’s proper cricket he played throughout. Great fielder and a handy bowler as well,” Lara concluded.
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