The 35-year-old Australia National Cricket Team right-arm pacer Scott Boland tried to sledge the 21-year-old India National Cricket Team all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy during the second Test of the five-match series.
After being sledged by Scott Boland, Nitish Kumar Reddy didn’t back down and fired back as things got heated at the Adelaide Oval in the second Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 Test.
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Scott Boland and Nitish Kumar Reddy engaged in a heated exchange
Reddy has turned out to be extraordinary for the India National Cricket Team. He made his Test debut in Perth and impressed everyone with his all-around heroics.
It didn’t look like the all-rounder was playing his first Test as he delivered a great performance with the bat. In two innings, he chipped in with attacking 41 and 38* runs respectively. With the ball, he was fine as well as he had the figures of 0/4 & 1/21.
In the Adelaide Test, Nitish Kumar Reddy continued to showcase his brilliance and smashed crucial 42 runs in the first innings to take India’s total to 180 runs. He also took a crucial wicket of Marnus Labuschagne (64), who looked at his very best in Test cricket after a very long time.
Nitish Kumar Reddy has a big responsibility on his shoulders to build a huge partnership with Rishabh Pant and help Team India get a lead after the failure of the star batters in the second innings.
He came out to bat after the dismissal of Rohit Sharma for 6 in the 21st over as India were left struggling at 105/5. Reddy once again started off well and looked comfortable in the middle.
Meanwhile, Nitish Kumar Reddy was involved in a verbal spat with Scott Boland on the last ball of Day 2. Boland bowled a 137.2kmph length ball to Reddy, who swung his bat hard across the line, and a thick inside edge saw the ball racing away to the square leg fence for four.
As Reddy was running between the wickets after hitting the delivery, Scott Boland was seen passing on some comments to the India youngster and sledging him. However, Reddy didn’t back down and fired back with a few words.
Watch: Scott Boland and Nitish Kumar Reddy exchange words
Boland: Tomorrow morning I will send you
Nitish : Chuskundam ra nakkodaka pi.wte.o/RcNxD
— Harsha (@HarshaTarak8) Dcme ,22<!–>4
India finished Day 2 with 128/5 on the board in 24 overs with Reddy (15 off 14) and Rishabh Pant (28 off 25) unbeaten in the middle.
Cheteshwar Pujara drops verdict on Day 2 of Adelaide Test
Speaking on Star Sports, the out-of-favour India National Cricket Team batsman Cheteshwar Pujara shared his verdict on Day 2 of the pink-ball Test.
He said that Travis Head played a sensational and attacking innings against India. Pujara also lashed out at the Indian bowlers for not bowling bouncers to Head. He elaborated:
“I believe that Travis Head played very well. He played an attacking game. And the strike rate with which he played, he created a lot of difficulty for the Indian team bowlers. But somewhere I felt that our strategy could have been better. Indian bowlers could have bowled more bouncers to Travis Head and could have bowled more on the stumps.
“He was given a little too much room on the off-stump. On the 4th and 5th stumps, there was a lot of bowling. They could have controlled it a little better and could have bowled more on the middle and off-stump. They could have taken one fielder on-side, and with the 5-4 field, they could’ve bowled more. And the India bowlers could have bowled a lot more bouncers.”
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