Nitish Reddy's wicket in Gabba Test (Source:@cricketcomau/X.com)
Nitish Reddy has been one of the shining lights for India in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and has performed his role as an all-rounder quite well. He has fought with the bat throughout the series, but has failed to live upto his expectations in the first outing at the Gabba Test.
He displayed a bit of resistance though and batted for 61 balls in which he scored 16, but then chopped on a delivery by Cummins onto his stumps, bringing back memories of Virat Kohli's wicket in the final of 2023 World Cup.
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It was a short of a good-length delivery around off, fifth ball of the 60th over. Nitish Reddy stood in his crease and had a tentative poke at the ball and it caught the inside edge of the blade and knocked over the stumps. Reddy's wicket reduced India to 194-7 and they were still 52 away from avoiding follow-on.
India have not batted well throughout this BGT apart from one innings in Perth, and the problem against the moving ball has exposed the technical deficiencies of Indian batters. In the Gabba Test, only KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja have been able to tackle Aussie batters as rest of the batters including big names like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have failed miserably.
The series is levelled at 1-1, and with Australia are pushing hard for a win after a strong batting and bowling performance. Rain has hampered their progress though, and India now need to show more application in the remaining part of the game to salvage a draw in Gabba.
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