Nitish Kumar Reddy’s mother after his memorable ton at MCG: I told Nitish ‘Do it for your daddy’ | Cricket News

Manasa Reddy
Nitish used to be very mischievous when younger but later realised, this is how much his parents are worrying about him. He is not someone who will say the same thing again and again. If he says once he will do it, he will prove it, do it.
He told me once that he would give his father his previous stature again. And as soon as I went into his room after this 100, do you know what was the first thing he asked me? “Are you happy now?!” And I just replied, “Yes I am!”.

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The Reddy family has been a bundle of emotions today. Witness the magical moment as they embrace Nitish after he wowed the world with his extraordinary maiden Test century at the MCG.
A day etched in memories… pic.twitter.com/uz9mrASuRm
— BCCI (@BCCI) December 28, 2024
I am a little more emotionally balanced than my husband! He wouldn’t sleep if my son didn’t score runs and this I am talking about from years ago back in the day. But the beauty is, he wouldn’t sleep if Nitish score runs also – sleepless with happiness, sleepless being sad! I would keep telling them that ‘We should not take things seriously, we need to be balanced. That whatever is destined will happen at that time’. My husband is quite emotional, but I keep telling him no point in being so emotional, whatever god gives, it will come to us.
Ravi Shastri was emotional in the commentary box after Nitish Kumar Reddy’s century (Screengrab)
Nitish is very scared/respectful of his father, he will be all mischievous but once his father comes. he becomes very silent. This year he has spent very little time with us. He would say that he is coming for one week to rest at home and also tell me what he wants to eat. Every night I keep thinking about the menu the next day and what I should cook for him. Within one or two days, he will get a call and has to leave, which is a bit disappointing.
Nitish Kumar Reddy followed Sachin Tendulkar as one of India’s youngest centurions in Australia. (AP)
I trust Nitish a lot. He is very dedicated and very determined. I remember telling him once, ‘Look how your daddy used to be when we got married. And now how he is (totally dedicated to your game) now. Only you can do something about it. Just make sure that everyone looks at Daddy and he gets to feel that proud feeling again’. He promised me that he would do it and I am very happy.

We have struggled a lot financially. To make my daughter study medicine (She was studying medicine in Ukraine but post the war, she was one of the people airlifted the Indian government and now she studies in Uzbekan). Financially it was very difficult. Some people also cheated us financially. But we as a family were dedicated to our goals. We have planned a house for our son and also to fund our daughter’s education in medicine; we have faced a lot of troubles but we didn’t change. But all of that is because of the trust we had in Nitish. It is all God’s blessing. Nitish also took it all seriously as he saw our hardships.
As told to Sriram Veera at the MCG (Translation Tanishq Vaddi)

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