BGT | Nitish ton in record p'ship with Sundar keeps India afloat on Day 3

12/28/2024

With 83,000 fans in attendance, India resumed well from their overnight score of 164)5 with Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja at the crease. The latter was content keeping the scoreboard ticking whenever ever the opportunity arose while the former adopted his usual trademark approach tp take the game to the opposition While it earned him three boundaries in a partnership of 32, the tactic eventually backfired when a scoop attempt went askew and Nathan Lyon took a simple catch at third man. Jadeja added 30 more runs thereafter with Nitish Kumar Redd♛y, the all-rounder doing the bulk of the scoring, before Lyon scalped his spin counterpart for the seventh time in Test cricket

India thus found themselves reeling at 221/7, a long way away from Australia's 474 and be at risk of following on However, Nitish and Washingt💯on Sundar put all such doubts to rest with a 127-run stand either side of Lunch and through the entirety of the second session to steer India to 348. The duo picked their moments to score their runs, identifying Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Marsh as the primary targets while exercising caution against the three premier quicks. Nitish brought up his fifty off 71 deliveries while Sundar go🌜t to the landmark in a remarkable 146-deliveries, the duo unfettered by the use of the new ball. However Sundar failed to add any to his 50 as Lyon had him edge to.slip and Nitish found himself stranded on 97. A hasty double from the excited youngster exposed Jasprit Bumrah to the strike and the taileder lasted only three Pat Cummins deliveries before returning to the dugout.

Mohammed Siraj fared better, surviving the remaining three.deliveries.to.allow Nitish a fair shot at the tonh. The youngster did not flinch, bringing up a debut Test hundred with a handsome driv🎀e down the ground before rain snd bad light stopped play

India thus find themselves at 358/9 on Stumps, still a good 1🔯16 runs away from their rivals.

MCG Erupts

Emoti⛎ons erupted when brought up his maiden Test ton! 🇮🇳💪 👉 4th Tesꦇt, Day 4 | SUN, 29th DEC, 4:30 AM |
— Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia)

Study

One kf my friend who is💧 watching the game at MCG sent me this - Gambhir ꦜand NKR with the analyst during the tea break.
— maddy (@224notout)

Your life has changed

How quickly your life can change when you’re related to an Indian cricketer. Nitish Kumar R꧋eddy’s parents being mobbed at the MCG & why not. It’s their sa𝔉crifices that kickstarted this remarkable journey from Vizag to Melbourne
— Bharat Sundaresan (@beastieboy07)

Same energy

Same energy 😭
— Pari (@BluntIndianGal)

8 years of hardship

8 years ago, Mutyala Reddy, an employee at Hindustan Zinc, quit as he was getting transferred & wanted to instead focus on his son's cricket.

Today he saw him get his maiden century in front of 80,000 spectators at the MCG

It's as much his dream coming true as Nitish's!
— Joy Bhattacharjya (@joybhattacharj)

We all grew up