Tuesday 17 April 2018

Facts About Nitish Rana - The Emerging All-Rounder Player of KKR in IPL 2018



A name Nitish Rana is now the buzz of the town. In 2017, a very few cricket fans know about but within the 10 days of IPL season 2018; almost everyone has been started to praise Nitish Rana for his wonderful style of batting and bowling. Till date, KKR played 3 matches and out of them, Nitish played a significant role in 2 matches against DD and RCB.


The two-time champion Kolkata Knight Riders bought him for INR 3.4 crore, but as he has been playing in this season; it seems like a bargain. This left-handed batsman did a special job for several times in last 3 matches with his extra-ordinary batting, bowling and fielding.


Nitish Rana - A Danger for Opponent Teams

Opponent Teams have been started making a strategy for Nitish Rana after showing his performance in last matches. Who can forget the performance of Rana against RCB? Once AB De Villiers and Virat Kohli both were smashing hard and spin the scoreboard very fast. At that time, Dinesh put trust on Nitish and gave a ball to him. He did well and got both of them out in just one over. Then after the planning of RCB was vanished and scored only 176 while the expected was 200+. And also he contributed 34 runs in just 25 balls and set the way clear for KKR win.

He said in the press conference “My job is to score runs. I don’t see that as pressure. It’s good that people are expecting more from me having done well last season. I love to bat under pressure, you are aware of the situations around you,”


In the last match against DD, Rana was selected as a Man of the Match (scored 59 runs off 35 balls) including five boundaries and four Yes Bank Maximum. The pitch was not for the batsmen as they want but this 24-years old young boy adjusted to the situation & started to spin the scoreboard rapidly. Unfortunately, he was got out by Morris in the 19th over.

Once he said that “I had nothing to lose, but everything to gain.” And also behaving like this statement. He never feels under pressurized but keeps the bowlers under pressure after hitting the boundaries in the first or second of an over.

Did you know about the Facts About Nitish Rana?



  • Rana debut in first-class matches in 2015-16. Before being a storming batsman, he has already a great reputation for being an agile bowler.
  • Nitish was bought by MI for INR 10 lac only before IPL 2015 but couldn’t get a chance to play a single inning in that season.
  • He played only matches for MI in 2016 and scored 104 runs and the highest score was 70.
  • Gautam Gambhir was interested to include him DD team and Gautam has criticised KP Bhaskar (DD Coach) for dropping Nitish Rana from DD’s team.

If he keeps his current performance level during this season of IPL; he will be the next K L Rahul (sold at 11 Cr. to KXIP) in the IPL season 12 and will be sold at 10+ Crore.

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