Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25: 5 Indian players to watch out for, including Nitish Kumar Reddy and Harshit Rana

Here’s a look astatine 5 Team India players to ticker retired for successful the Border Gavaskar Trophy:

Nitish Kumar Reddy

As an all-rounder, Nitish Kumar Reddy volition adhd to India’s gait bowling section against Australia. Nitish, who hails from Vizag, had his breakout twelvemonth successful 2017-18, wherever helium rewrote grounds books successful the Vijay Merchant Trophy with 1,237 runs astatine an astounding mean of 176.41. In past IPL, helium scored 303 successful 11 innings for Sunrisers Hyderabad. He has played 21 first-class games and has deed 1 century, 2 fifties and taken 56 wickets. The 21-year-old is the youngest subordinate of the Indian squad successful Australia.

He made his T20I debut for India conscionable this October. In his 2nd crippled for the Men successful Blue, Nitish Kumar Reddy blasted 74 disconnected 34 balls. And then, for bully measurement helium besides claimed 2 for 23 with the ball.

Harshit Rana

Harshit Rana, who volition crook 23 adjacent month, boasts of a fiery gait and is an understandable prime for the spicy Perth track. With seasoned workhorse Mohammed Shami not yet 100 per cent fit, the young Rana could assistance the Indian squad marque aboriginal inroads into the Australian team. Harshit Rana helped Kolkata Knight Riders assertion the IPL 2024 rubric arsenic the joint-fourth-highest wicket-taker. In 10 first-class games connected the home circuit, Harshit Rana has 43 wickets astatine 24.00 and 469 runs astatine 42.63.

Australia vs India: All-rounder Nitish Reddy and pacer Harshit Rana. (File images)

Washington Sundar

The Perth way is synonymous with speed. Which is astir apt wherefore the squad has opted to prime off-spinner Washington Sundar. He’s coming to Australia with 16 wickets astatine 14.12 against New Zealand astatine home.

Virat Kohli

Australian media and erstwhile cricketers person singled retired Virat Kohli arsenic the antheral to mark. Plenty has been spoken astir his thin signifier coming into the Border Gavaskar Trophy series. The astir damning stat is that Virat Kohli’s Test mean successful 2024 of 22.72 is his lowest crossed each calendar years wherever helium has featured successful astatine slightest 10 innings. But that conscionable means, helium volition beryllium bare for more.

Jasprit Bumrah

The newly-anointed skipper has taken implicit the mantle of captaincy from Rohit Sharma for the archetypal Border Gavaskar Trophy Test, which would adhd to his responsibilities. Rather than starring India with the ball, Bumrah volition beryllium the antheral making each the decisions for India astatine slightest successful the archetypal IND vs AUS Test.