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Andhra Pradesh and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy stated that he admires star India batter Virat Kohli and former South Africa cricketer AB de Villiers. Nitish was called-up to the Indian squad after a stable Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season with SRH, for the five-match T20I sequence towards Zimbabwe. Though he couldn’t play because of a sports activities hernia damage, he has created an impression robust sufficient to be thought-about for future sequence with a ‘Emerging Player of the Season’ award worthy efficiency on this 12 months’s IPL, scoring 303 runs in 11 innings with two fifties at a strike price of 143 and taking three wickets along with his seam bowling.

The 21-year-old is now working his method again to full health as the brand new home season begins on September 5 with the Duleep Trophy.

Speaking to Star Sports, Nitish stated that he has been an enormous fan of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) for the final 10 years.

Nitish recalled when he first met Virat Kohli and solely shook his hand and obtained his autograph. The 21-year-old additional added that he hoped to play properly towards RCB, in order that Kohli would discover him.

“I really admire Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers. I’ve been a huge fan of RCB for the last 10 years. In 2023, I had the chance to meet Virat Kohli. I didn’t have much to ask him; I just wanted to shake his hand and get his autograph. In 2024, I was hoping to play well against RCB so that Virat Kohli would notice my game. Though I didn’t get to bat in that match, he remembered my name during the post-match handshake. That meant a lot to me,” Nitish was quoted in a launch from Star Sports as saying.

Nitish began making waves Under-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy when he scored a triple ton towards Tamil Nadu and 190 towards a powerful bowling assault of Karnataka and a quadruple ton towards Nagaland, ending the 2017-18 version of the event with 1,237 runs.

Frustrated by his poor performances, in 2019, Nitish determined to play solely as a batter, however Srinivas Reddy, one among his coaches, inspired him to proceed as a bowler, mentioning the rarity of tempo bowling all-rounders in India.

After that, Nitish was picked up for an ACA camp to choose up a pool of gamers for the 2019-20 home season. The all-rounder stated that he was initially picked up as an understudy within the bigger squad however the skipper, Hanuma Vihari, was impressed and pushed for his inclusion within the Ranji squad. He went on to make his Ranji debut towards Kerala in January 2020.

Reddy was picked up SRH forward of the 2023 IPL however obtained to play solely two video games wherein he didn’t get to bat. In July final 12 months, he was known as as much as India’s Emerging Players squad for the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka however didn’t get to bat there both.

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