Quick-bowling all-rounders are uncommon in cricket. India have not had many high quality batters who may also bowl tempo of late, with Hardik Pandya arguably being the best choice at current. However, Hardik’s India profession is proscribed to solely white-ball cricket at current. Therefore, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) picked Nitish Kumar Reddy for the forthcoming Australia tour. Nitish has already impressed many together with his batting within the T20I collection towards Bangladesh. As his shares rise in worldwide cricket, Reddy revealed a giant tip from coach Gautam Gambhir that helped him excel.
In a chat with the Hindustan Occasions, Reddy revealed the type of conversations he had with Gambhir and others within the group administration within the Bangladesh collection.
“At the beginning, it was nothing. They had been telling me to play in an aggressive means. The type of strategy I confirmed in IPL, they had been telling me to go together with the identical strategy, similar mindset, all the pieces. Simply play in line with the scenario. I nonetheless bear in mind in the course of the drinks break when Gautam Sir got here in and I performed reverse sweep it wanted a DRS. When it was given not out because it was the umpire’s name, he got here within the centre and he informed me, Nitish, you’ve good energy. You may clear the boundary line simply. You don’t have any must play reverse sweep on these type of wickets as a result of the ball is protecting low,” Reddy mentioned.
Reddy hit a 74-run knock towards Bangladesh within the second T20I, making waves within the Indian cricketing spectrum. Reddy is grateful for the directions given to him by Gambhir throughout this part of his profession.
“He informed me to again my energy. So I simply backed my energy and remainder of the issues went very nicely. The over bowled by the spinner turned out very nicely for me at the moment,” Reddy mentioned.
Gambhir additionally gave some useful tricks to Reddy over bowling. The pacer bowls between 130-135 kmph on a mean, although he has the power to bowl over 140 kmph too. However, it is consistency over tempo within the precedence checklist for Reddy.
“To be sincere, I’m making an attempt to be extra constant in purple ball. I really feel like bowling 130-135 is sweet tempo. Quite than going 140-145, making an attempt to bowl extra tempo, I simply do not need to lose my consistency. So I’m making an attempt to have extra consistency at this tempo. In that course of, if my tempo bought elevated, that is nicely and good. However my first precedence might be bowling the consistency areas, hitting the highest of the off stump. That is what Gautam sir additionally saved on mentioning to me, so I needed to give attention to that,” he asserted.
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