Nitish Reddy scored a gritty century vs Australia on Day 3 of Boxing Day Test.© AFP
Nitish Reddy’s straight drive off Scott Boland that carried him previous his maiden Test hundred has satisfied the Australian pacer concerning the younger Indian batter’s potential with the bat. Reddy made an unbeaten 105 as India reached 358 for 9 of their first innings, and extra importantly gave the facet an opportunity to salvage the fourth Test right here. “Yeah, obviously he’s playing really nicely. Coming in down the middle, it’s a lower-order, but he’s sort of trying to put the pressure back on us. And he’s playing nicely,” Boland replied to a question from PTI after the day’s play.
“He played really well. He’s been a young guy from India who’s come through and strikes the ball really well. It looks like he’s got pretty much every shot in the book,” he added.
Boland first had a glimpse of Reddy throughout the Pink Ball match between India and the PM XI in Canberra.
“I played the ‘A’ game against him, the PM’s game and then a couple of Tests. You see he can score all around the ground.
“He’s clearly a really good participant and does nicely within the IPL and he is doing nicely right here in Australian circumstances as nicely,” he noted.
Boland felt that the MCG pitch didn’t have the expected nip.
“Yeah, I feel it began off with a good bit of nip in it. I feel there’s nonetheless just a little little bit of nip there in the intervening time. Not as constant as I’d like as a bowler, however I feel it’ll be a reasonably good Test match wicket.” Talking about Australia’s plan in general against the India batters, the beefy pacer replied: “Coming off that break, we tried to take them a bit wider with the ball. We clearly set a 7-2 discipline and tried to see in the event that they wished to flash their fingers exterior the off stump.”
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