All-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy, who is making his Test debut for India in the first Test against Australia in Perth, was born on May 26, 2003 in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam. His father left his job in 2012 to support Nitish's cricket. He plays domestic cricket for Andhra. He has scored 779 runs and taken 56 wickets in 23 first-class matches.