New Delhi. How heroes are born! When the situation is unusual, the country, the time, everyone stands before you with a challenge and then you melt the world with the iron within you. You must be watching films. If you also slap two times on the one whom everyone is beating, then why are you a hero? But when the villain is overwhelming you, your own people are trapped in his clutches but still you save everyone from his jaws, then you become a hero. The bigger the villain, the bigger the hero.
Team India’s condition was critical in the fourth Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Be it Rohit, Virat or Rahul, everyone had reached the pavilion. On top of that, Australia’s score of 474 is like a mountain. When India lost Rishabh Pant at the beginning of the day, even the calm and composed Sunil Gavaskar lost his cool. But what happened after that was proper box office.
Let’s go to flashback. Mutyala Reddy, a resident of Andhra Pradesh, used to work in Hindustan Zinc Company. One day he saw his 5 year old son Nitish Reddy playing cricket with a plastic bat and felt that he would do something.
cut 2- When Nitish was 12-13 years old, Mutyala Reddy was transferred to Udaipur. Senior Reddy felt that Nitish’s cricket would deteriorate after the transfer. He left the job. Had to listen to a lot of taunts. There was also a shortage of money. But he paid full attention to Nitish’s cricket.
cut 3- Nitish Reddy saved India by scoring a century in the last wicket partnership against Australia in the presence of around 70,000 people in Melbourne, one of the largest stadiums in the world. Mutyala Reddy is present among these spectators and all-time great Adam Gilchrist himself arrived there to interview him.
And the story of this century is also one of tremendous twists and turns. When Nitish turned 50, the celebration of the blockbuster film “Pushpa” is one of the most viral videos of today. But the biggest thrill came when Nitish was on 99 runs, and India lost its ninth wicket in the form of Jasprit Bumrah. After this Mohammad Siraj hit three balls of Pat Cummins.
Faced firmly. There was so much applause in the stadium on every ball, as if Siraj had hit a six. In the next over, Nitish Reddy scored his historic century by hitting a shot over the bowler off Scott Boland.
With this century, Nitish, who remained unbeaten on 105 runs, became the third youngest batsman to score a Test century for India against Australia on its own soil. Neither past nor future, at number one is Sachin Tendulkar, who scored a century in the Sydney Test in 1992 at the age of 18 years and 256 days, and second is Rishabh Pant, who scored a century in Sydney in 2019 at the age of 21 years and 92 days.
Nitish hit such a straight drive that cricket fans saw a glimpse of Sachin Tendulkar in it. Sachin Tendulkar scored a century in the fifth innings of his first Australian tour. Rishabh Pant accomplished this feat in the seventh innings. Whereas Reddy scored a century in the sixth innings. So far on this tour, Reddy has scored 284 runs with the help of 1 century.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : December 28, 2024, 4:17 PM IST