India's Nitish Kumar Reddy scored a debut hundred at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, thrilling fans and contributing to record-breaking attendance figures for the Boxing Day Test. Cricket Australia's CEO Nick Hockley expressed amazement at the crowd's enthusiasm and supported expanding the India-Australia Test series to five matches.

Nitish Kumar Reddy picked the perfect time to score his maiden century as India fought their way back into the fourth Test against Australia on Saturday. All-rounder Reddy was applauded off the Melbourne Cricket Ground pitch at the end of Day 3 following his brilliant unbeaten 105 after rain ended play midway through the final session.

Nitish Kumar Reddy scored his maiden Test century at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, making a significant comeback for India on the third day of the fourth Test against Australia. Coming in at No. 8 with India struggling,

Melbourne: The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) witnessed a thrilling turnaround on the third day of the fourth Test between India and Australia. India's young sensation, Nitish Reddy, stole the show with a majestic unbeaten maiden century,

India 358 for 9 (Reddy 105*, Washington 50, Boland 3-57, Cummins 3-86) trail Australia 474 by 116 runs A defiant maiden Test century by Nitish Kumar Reddy, brought up with No. 11 Mohammed Siraj for company,

The visitors started Day 3 at 164/5, with Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja at the crease. After adding 27 runs to the overnight score, Pant