Nitish Kumar Reddy Creates HISTORY; Overtakes Rohit Sharma To Become...

India defeated Bangladesh in the second T20I of the three-match series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi by massive margin of 86 runs. They thus clinched the series by winning twp matches on the trot, with a match in hand. The star of the show was none other than Nitish Kumar Rewddy who picked up the Player of the Match award for his superb show with both bat and ball. In the process he broke a massive record that was held by Rohit Sharma.

Nitish Kumar Reddy slammed 74 runs from 34 balls in an innings studded with four fours and 7 huge sixes. He thus broke a massive record to become the player to hit the most number of sixes in an India vs Bangladesh T20I match. The previous record was jointly held by Rohit Sharma, who hit six sixes in 2019, and Tilak Varma, who hit 6 sixes at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou.

Here are the players with the most sixes in an India vs Bangladesh T20I match:

Nitish Kumar Reddy- 7 (2024)

Rohit Sharma- 6 (2019)

Tilak Varma- 6 (2023)

Rohit Sharma- 5 (2018)

Shreyas Iyer- 5 (2019)

Nitish Reddy slammed his maiden T20I half-century in just his second match. He was just 21 years and 136 days old when he slammed this fifty. He thus becomes the fourth youngest Indian to score a T20I fifty.

Here are the youngest players to score a half-century for India in T20Is:

20 years 143 days- Rohit Sharma

20 years 271 days- Tilak Varma

21 years 38 days- Rishabh Pant

21 years 136 days- Nitish Reddy

21 years 227 days- Yashasvi Jaiswal

Nitish Reddy also becomes the first Indian to score 70+ runs and pick two wickets in a T20I match.

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