Nitish Kumar Reddy put on a cinematic experience for those at the MCG, bringing up a counter-punching century for the ages. Naman Agarwal writes on India's newest Test sensation.
“Very very tension. Last wicket Mohammed Siraj, very tension tension.”
Mutyala Reddy struggled to find words in a language that he isn't fluent with, trying to answer how he was feeling as his son, Nitish Kumar Reddy, India's new Test sensation, neared a landmark that almost every Indian visualises in their head at some point. His family members tried translating Adam Gilchrist’s questions into Telugu for him, but it seemed as if words from his mother tongue deserted him as well. The language of love is universal, words or no words. It was obvious what he was trying to express.
His son, all of 21 years old, had just struck a century in front of a packed Melbourne Cricket Ground in a Boxing Day Test when his team was looking down and out.
There’s only one way a dad would be feeling after that.
