Sports Desk, New Delhi. Indian all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy created havoc with his bowling in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. The right-arm medium pacer, representing Andhra Pradesh, took a hat-trick against Madhya Pradesh.
In the Super League Group A match played in Pune, Reddy completed his hat-trick by taking wickets on the last three balls of the third over of the innings. Reddy made Harsh Gawli, Harpreet Singh and Madhya Pradesh and RCB captain Rajat Patidar his victims.
completed a hat-trick like this
Nitish Kumar Reddy clean bowled Harsh Gawli (5) on the fourth ball of the third over of Madhya Pradesh's innings. On the next ball, Reddy got Harpreet Singh caught out by Andhra Pradesh captain Ricky Bhui. Then Reddy completed his hat-trick by clean bowling Rajat Patidar on the last ball of the over.
Andhra lost the match
Madhya Pradesh was under pressure due to Nitish Kumar Reddy's hat-trick, but then on the basis of useful innings of Venkatesh Iyer (22), Rishabh Chauhan (47) and Rahul Batham (35*), it defeated Andhra Pradesh by 4 wickets.
Let us remind you that Andhra Pradesh batted first and the entire team was all out for 112 runs in 19.1 overs. Nitish Kumar Reddy scored 25 runs in 27 balls with the help of three fours. Mystery spinner Shivam Shukla shone for Madhya Pradesh, taking four wickets for 23 runs.
In reply, Madhya Pradesh achieved the target by losing 6 wickets in 17.3 overs. MP won the match by four wickets with 15 balls remaining. With this victory, Madhya Pradesh got 4 points.
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