Nitish Reddy created history, became the first Indian to do this feat in Australia, and rained sixes.

The Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 has been quite spectacular so far for Team India's young all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy. He has scored very important runs with the bat in this series. Something similar was seen in the Melbourne Test as well. When he came out to bat on the third day of the Melbourne Test, Team India had lost 6 wickets for just 191 runs. But by lunch, he managed to take Team India's score to 244 runs. During this, he also made a special record of sixes in his name.

Nitish Reddy's big achievement in Australia

Nitish Kumar Reddy scored an unbeaten 40 runs off 61 balls till lunch on the third day of the Melbourne Test. His innings included 3 fours and 1 six. These six were very special for him. This was the 8th time in this series when Nitish Kumar Reddy hit the ball for a six. With this, he equaled the record of hitting the most sixes in a Test series against Australia at their home. At the same time, Nitish Kumar Reddy is the first batsman from India to hit so many sixes in a Test series in Australia.

Before Nitish Kumar Reddy, only 2 batsmen have been able to hit so many sixes in a Test series against Australia at their home. Michael Vaughan had hit 8 sixes in the 2002-03 Ashes series. Chris Gayle had hit so many sixes in a Test series during the 2009-10 Australia tour. Now Nitish Kumar Reddy has done this feat. Let us tell you, Nitish Kumar Reddy now has a chance to come first in this list. He can go ahead of both these legends in this innings itself.

Let us tell you, Nitish Kumar Reddy has scored more than 200 runs in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. He is the third Indian to touch the 200-run mark in this series. Apart from him, only Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul have scored 200+ runs. At the same time, he has scored 30+ runs 5 times in this series so far. This is only the fourth time that a batsman of Team India has scored 30+ runs 5 times in a Test series while playing at 7 or below.