Nitish Reddy scored a century in Melbourne, broke the mega record of Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal.

Nitish Reddy Test Century: Nitish Kumar Reddy has scored the first century of his Test career in the Melbourne Test. Nitish’s century came at a time when Team India was struggling to save the follow-on. He completed his century in 172 balls and also hit 10 fours and one six in this brilliant innings. Nitish Reddy has now become the third youngest Indian cricketer to score a century in Australia. Nitish has achieved this feat at the age of 21 years and 216 days.

In Australia, the only Indian players to score a century at a younger age than Nitish Reddy are Sachin Tendulkar and Rishabh Pant. Sachin scored a century on Australian soil while playing in Sydney in January 1992 at the age of 18 years and 253 days. Only 30 days later, Sachin scored another century while playing in Perth. Whereas Rishabh Pant had scored a century in Sydney in 2019 at the age of only 21 years and 92 days. After him, Nitish Reddy’s name will now be included in this list.

With this, Nitish Reddy has joined the select players to score a century while batting at the eighth position. Ravichandran Ashwin had scored a total of 4 centuries for India in his historic career while playing at number 8. The record for scoring most centuries while playing at number 8 is in the name of former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori, who scored 5 centuries while playing at this position.

Saved India from follow on

Nitish Reddy came to bat when India had lost the sixth wicket at the score of 191. At that time Team India needed 84 runs to save the follow-on. Ravindra Jadeja was also out soon, but after that, the 127-run partnership that Nitish made with Washington Sundar helped Team India overcome the situation of defeat and reach a stage from where it could think about winning the match. Can. Let us tell you that Nitish is also the highest run scorer for India in this series.

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