Nitish Kumar Reddy credits Pat Cummins & Morne Morkel for his Lord’s bowling heroics

Team India all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy, who scalped two wickets on Day 1 of the Lord’s Test, has revealed that he has received a piece of advice from his IPL 2025 teammate Pat Cummins during the recently concluded season.

Nitish, who came onto bowl his first over in the 14th over of the opening day, has scalped the wickets of the opening batters Ben Duckett (23) and Zak Crawley (18) in the same over as England looked to be on the backfoot for a brief period of time.

"Yeah, it's like after the Australia tour, I felt like I have to improve my bowling and the consistency the most, that's what I looked at,” Nitish said at the post-day press conference. 

"And yeah, Pat is my captain and he has been brilliant in Australia and I have asked him for some tips and he has been telling me how things would have been done in Australia, how I can go through in Australia. And that's a great experience for me, sharing with Pat Cummins,” he added.

Furthermore, Reddy also asserted that he has been working closely with the bowling coach, Morne Morkel, in the last couple of weeks, as we could see good progress in his bowling skills, swinging the ball both ways on the surface.

"And yeah, coming to this tour also, I would say, working with Morne Morkel has been great for me. He's been working with me for a couple of weeks and we are seeing good progress in my bowling, and I'm really enjoying working with him. We have been working on my consistency a lot, since I got some bit of swing both ways and I just want to be consistent over all areas. So we are working on that and I have been working hard on my bowling for one year or two years now," he stated.

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