Ind vs NZ: Can Nitish Reddy be Hardik Pandya's backup? Former cricketer gives verdict

Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan said Nitish Kumar Reddy should person played the ODI bid against New Zealand from the archetypal lucifer and tin service arsenic a backup to Hardik Pandya.Pathan spoke astir Reddy’s show successful the 3rd ODI, saying the youngster showed committedness with some bat and ball.

Reddy scored a half-century and struck large shots, portion besides bowling astatine speeds touching 135 kmph.

Pathan said these signs amusement wherefore India should proceed to backmost him.

Reddy played the 3rd and last ODI successful Indore connected Sunday, scoring 53 disconnected 57 balls with 2 fours and 2 sixes. He added 88 runs with Virat Kohli, but the effort was not capable arsenic New Zealand won the lucifer by 41 runs."Nitish Kumar Reddy was a positive. He scored a 50 with the bat, and Reddy played alternatively of Washington Sundar successful Rajkot.

I felt helium should person played from the archetypal game. The mode helium batted, Reddy showed helium had the imaginable to play large shots and tin rotate strike. Reddy was besides progressive successful bully partnerships successful some games. Reddy tin play those large shots easily, whether it's the propulsion changeable oregon playing straight. The mode Nitish Kumar Reddy bowled, helium touched speeds of 135.

It's a decent speed, and it shows helium has the imaginable to beryllium Hardik Pandya's backup.

Even if Reddy fails, the absorption should persist with him, and India volition yet get a bully all-rounder," Pathan said connected his YouTube channel.Reddy made his India debut successful T20Is and Tests successful 2024 and ended the twelvemonth with a period successful the Boxing Day Test astatine the MCG against Australia. He has played 4 ODIs truthful far, scoring 100 runs astatine an mean of 33.33, including 1 fifty.In Tests, helium has scored 396 runs successful 10 matches astatine an mean of 26.40, with 1 hundred.

He has besides taken 8 wickets astatine an system complaint of 4.25.New Zealand sealed their first-ever ODI bid triumph successful India with a 41-run triumph successful the 3rd ODI. Centuries from Daryl Mitchell (137 not out) and Glenn Phillips (106) helped New Zealand station 337 for eight, with Harshit Rana and Arshdeep Singh taking 3 wickets each.Virat Kohli scored a period for India and added 99 runs with Harshit Rana, who deed his maiden ODI fifty, but the pursuit fell abbreviated arsenic New Zealand won the match.