‘I will not bow down’, Nitish Reddy scored his first half-century, celebrated in ‘Pushpa’ style

Nitish Kumar Reddy 1st Test Half Century at Melbourne Test: The fourth Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 is being played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. So far, five half-centuries and one century have been scored by Indians and Australia in the first innings of the fourth Test. In this, the half-century of Australian young player Sam Constance was in the headlines. Now the half-century of young Indian player Nitish Kumar Reddy is becoming a topic of discussion. This is Nitish Kumar’s first Test half-century, which he celebrated in a unique way. Its video is becoming very viral on social media.

Nitish Kumar celebrated in the style of Pushpa
Nitish Kumar Reddy has scored the first half-century of his Test career against Australia. He scored this half-century in the sixth innings of the third match of his Test career, which was being played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In the first innings of the fourth test match, Nitish Kumar scored a half-century in 82.3 overs. Mitchell Starc was bowling against him.

Nitish Kumar Reddy was facing the new ball of Mitchell Starc. Nitish drove the ball forward into the off side on Mitchell’s wide delivery and completed his first Test half-century. After this spectacular shot, Nitish celebrated in the trademark style of South film superstar Allu Arjun’s Pushpa and swung his bat from the right side of the neck to the left side. As if he was saying to the Australian bowlers, ‘I will not bow down, you bastard’

Nitish Kumar reddy PUSHPA mannerism with bat 😭🔥#Pushpa2TheRule pic.twitter.com/15MhTJF39A

— Musugu Donga (@MusuguDhonga) December 28, 2024

Till the time of writing the news, Nitish Kumar Reddy is making a great record breaking partnership with Washington Sundar. Nitish Kumar is currently playing unbeaten after facing 100 balls, scoring 66 runs at a strike rate of 66.

Nitish’s performance in Australia
Nitish Kumar made his Test cricket debut for India in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. Nitish has been included in the playing 11 of all the three Test matches played so far. Nitish has scored more than 40 runs in every test match played so far. In the first innings of Perth Test, Nitish scored 41 runs on 59 balls, in the second innings he scored 38 runs on 27 balls. In the first innings of Adelaide Test, Nitish scored 42 runs on 54 balls. In the second innings he scored 42 runs on 47 balls. In the first innings of Brisbane Test, Nitish Kumar was out after scoring 1 run in 11 balls.

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