Nitish Kumar Reddy, the promising all-rounder,

[Nagz]

Another bits and pieces player.

 

Washington Sundar is a better allrounder than this guy.

[vvvslaxman]

Irfan pathan would walk in as a batsman. He came at no.3 at Perth test we won.   Made 28 & 46. Plus took  2/63 and 3/54 and won man of the match. Such a versatile player. Prabakar used to open the innings and also open the bowling.If not Kapil, Reddy has to reach their level. A versatile batsman who can bat anywhere not just down the order.

Edited July 19, 2025 by vvvslaxman

[tweaker]

Nitish promoted in the batting .

[Sooda]

Great that he is finally given a chance. He is Being totally wasted batting at no 8 and also barely bowling. He is a batsman who bowls, we Don't need to play him in these conditions at all, but if he is he should in in top 6 

[singhvivek141]

15 minutes ago, Sooda said:

Great that he is finally given a chance. He is Being totally wasted batting at no 8 and also barely bowling. He is a batsman who bowls, we Don't need to play him in these conditions at all, but if he is he should in in top 6 

 

Harsha Bhogle post last year IPL used to say that he is a bowler, whose batting was unearthed by SRH. But his primary skillset is bowling.

 

That being said, he does look like bowling is his weaker suit. 

[express bowling]

Nitish does not have the habit of playing long innings. Keeps getting out in the 40s. 

 

Needs to play more FC matches and practice batting for long.

[jf1gp_1]

Just threw it away today. Was looking good and could have got century. 

[cowboysfan]

he did his job of scoring fast but I don't if he will ever be good at either batting or bowling.

[vvvslaxman]

Not sure if it was beginners luck, he was very good on Australian tour. He just has to replicate it. Fact that he played like that means he has it in him. For whatever reason not the same since that tour. HE just has to rediscover that. Few more first class games he can be considered as matured all rounder.  

[Lord]

GG/Gill not giving him bowling at all here

 

Then would expect him to do well in SENA

[Gollum]

8 minutes ago, Lord said:

GG/Gill not giving him bowling at all here

 

Then would expect him to do well in SENA

No sense or logic in what this TM does. Why not bat longer in 1st innings (Washi hasn't been used this series, with bat or ball) or again today? No vision, no development plans for these youngsters. 

[Lord]

5 minutes ago, Gollum said:

No sense or logic in what this TM does. Why not bat longer in 1st innings (Washi hasn't been used this series, with bat or ball) or again today? No vision, no development plans for these youngsters. 

 

Yes series like these are perfect opportunities to test things out and try out youngsters to prepare for harder SENA tours. Missed it due to arrogance of TM

 

Even a young fast bowler could have been introduced instead of playing Bumrah (who is missing Aus tour now)

[putrevus]

If they don't trust Nitin to bowl even one over against WI then why play him. How can he suddenly turn up in SENA and start bowling overs.

 

Why was Bumrah playing both tests shouldn't he be resting after bowling so many overs in first test.

[ungboysj]

Generally I am in favor of giving young players a decent go and not too harsh on them

But I don't see any batting or bowling talent in him

 

His bowling is ganguly level and batting against seamers is non existent and can only defend not a proper bat

 

 

[putrevus]

2 hours ago, ungboysj said:

Generally I am in favor of giving young players a decent go and not too harsh on them

But I don't see any batting or bowling talent in him

 

His bowling is ganguly level and batting against seamers is non existent and can only defend not a proper bat

 

 

I agree his bowling is very ordinary, Ganguly was better bowler.Batting is yet to determined, he had one great innings in Australia.He looked very iffy in England with bat.But he has already played 8 tests so before discarding him they need to find out more about him.

 

They lost a great chance of finding about his bowling this series.

[The Realist]

Might have to change his name to "Not Reddy if never gets an opportunity to bat or bowl.

[tapandrun]

He does nt having bowling to be an test level allrounder. 

 

And on batting he does not have FC exp. to pace the innings and construct it further.

 

He has talent, may have been better to give him chances in Odis and let him bowl few over bat there a bit, may be move up to give him time to score runs 

[vvvslaxman]

6 minutes ago, tapandrun said:

He does nt having bowling to be an test level allrounder. 

 

And on batting he does not have FC exp. to pace the innings and construct it further.

 

He has talent, may have been better to give him chances in Odis and let him bowl few over bat there a bit, may be move up to give him time to score runs 

 

It is hard to find a seam bowling all-rounder.  Given that he is only 22, he has time on his side to mature.  Hardik Pandya is the only bowler who could touch 140 and also bat well. He is not going to play Tests. Other options are Dube, Venky Iyer, and Reddy.   We can't consider Hangarkekar, Rana as all rounders. Without decent defensive technique, one cannot be called anall-rounder. Among the available guys, Reddy has the right age. Given the rarity of this breed, they are investing in him.

[tapandrun]

14 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

It is hard to find a seam bowling all-rounder.  Given that he is only 22, he has time on his side to mature.  Hardik Pandya is the only bowler who could touch 140 and also bat well. He is not going to play Tests. Other options are Dube, Venky Iyer, and Reddy.   We can't consider Hangarkekar, Rana as all rounders. Without decent defensive technique, one cannot be called anall-rounder. Among the available guys, Reddy has the right age. Given the rarity of this breed, they are investing in him.

 

Test selection should have been the easiest thing, put the best 7-8 batters, put 5-6 best bowlers in the system.

 

This is it Do not have to think alot. If you find an allrounder then its great for combination they are force multiplier.

 

Its not the older times that an allrounders can be created if some1 has some potential.

 

tests have become competitive and developing a player is impossible now and add test championships and ICC events occurring soo frequently. 

 

Thats is why no team has been able to develop a middling player into a v.good player.  Steve Smith is last but he worked a lot and stopped bowling altogether.

 

Even its hard to see player like snaga who debut as mo/lower mo batter and move on to become great batters, the reason is there is not enough of time in-between the ICC event. Team tries to bring in player v.well suited to that particular role/position and move to next if they fail as there is no time 

 

Edited October 14, 2025 by tapandrun

[vvvslaxman]

7 minutes ago, tapandrun said:

 

Test selection should have been the easiest thing, put the best 7-8 batters, put 5-6 best bowlers in the system.

 

This is it Do not have to think alot. If you find an allrounder then its great for combination they are force multiplier.

 

Its not the older times that an allrounders can be created if some1 has some potential.

 

tests is become competitive and developing a player is impossible now and add test championships and ICC events occurring so frequently. 

 

Thats is why no team has been able to develop a middling player into a v.good player.  Steve Smith is last but he worked a lot and stopped bowling altogether.

 

Even its hard to see player like snaga who debut as mo/lower mo batter and move on to become great batters, the reason is there is not enough of time in-between the ICC event. Team tries to bring in player v.well suited to that particular role/position and move to next if they fail as there is no time 

 

 

They are thinking of REddy as 4th seamer overseas. Remember we won a lot of tests thanks to 4 seamers. But sadly our tail became very long. IF they want to go with 4 seamer plan in SENA ,  Reddy is a viable option as he will strengthen the batting line up.