Veteran Australian player Scott Boland praised Nitish Kumar Reddy for his fighting century on Day 3 of the fourth Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 Test in Melbourne. He also added that the youngster did well under pressure and he also expects the hundred to be remembered for a long time. Reddy walked in when India were 191/6 on the third day and his unbeaten 105 helped India avoid the follow-on as well.

Speaking at a post-day presser, Boland said as quoted by Fox Cricket: “That’s something that has been instilled in all of us, that no matter what situation we are in, we’ll just fight, no matter what. And playing for India, especially in a ground like the MCG (on) a big occasion against Australia (in the) Boxing Day Test, we will do no matter what it takes for us to be in a good position. Today was definitely good today. It was very, very hard (and) I’m very, very happy for Nitish. He got an unbelievable hundred, honestly, and I’m sure this will be remembered forever.”

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When he was asked whether the pitch would spin more as the game progressed, Boland said that he hoped it would. The veteran also suggested that Australia will need a sizeable lead to put pressure on India as well.

“I’m not too sure if it’s going to spin too much more. I think there’s a … decent amount of grass on there, so I’m definitely hoping it spins a lot more, but I think hopefully there’ll be some variable bounce just as the Test match wicket gets a bit more tired. That’d be ideal for us as a bowling group. We’re leading by 115 runs, so (we are) in a pretty strong position. Obviously, it could have been better, but I think that’s Test match cricket. It ebbs and flows. Hopefully tomorrow morning, we get that first wicket and then (we can) build on that and put on a really nice lead and see how the game plays out after that,” Scott Boland concluded.