'The presser can wait': Nitish Reddy pauses interaction to answer mom's call - Watch

NEW DELHI: India all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy produced 1 of the astir wholesome moments of the time pursuing India's triumph implicit Afghanistan successful the opening ODI successful Dharamsala, concisely pausing his post-match property league to be a telephone telephone from his mother.The light-hearted occurrence rapidly won hearts, with the BCCI sharing a video of the enactment connected societal media with the caption: “The post-match presser tin hold but a telephone from Mom simply cannot.”

Nitish, who was answering questions from reporters aft India's seven-wicket victory, abruptly received a telephone from his mother. The youngster politely picked up the phone, telling her that helium would telephone backmost successful 5 minutes earlier apologising to the writer for the interruption, drafting smiles each astir the room.The heartwarming infinitesimal capped different memorable time for the 23-year-old, who made invaluable contributions with the shot during India's comfy victory.WATCH:

Nitish Reddy chips successful arsenic debutants shine

Playing successful a rain-curtailed 25-overs-per-side contest, India elected to vessel archetypal and reduced Afghanistan to 26/3.However, Rahmanullah Gurbaz launched a stunning counterattack, smashing a superb period and sharing a 116-run basal with skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi, who contributed 27.

Nitish struck 2 cardinal blows, dismissing centurion Gurbaz and seasoned all-rounder Mohammed Nabi, finishing with figures of 2/31 from 4 overs.The prima performers with the ball, however, were debutants Gurnoor Brar and Harsh Dubey. Gurnoor impressed with figures of 3/27, portion left-arm spinner Harsh claimed 3/47 aft recovering powerfully from an costly start.Afghanistan were yet bowled retired for 194 successful 24.5 overs.

Shubman Gill leads India's chase

India made airy enactment of the people contempt losing Rohit Sharma for 16 aft a brisk opening stand.Player of the Match Shubman Gill anchored the pursuit magnificently with an unbeaten 84 disconnected 66 deliveries, striking 11 fours and 2 sixes. He archetypal shared a 70-run concern with Ishan Kishan, who made 34, earlier KL Rahul's unbeaten 39 disconnected conscionable 19 balls helped India seal triumph successful 22.5 overs and instrumentality a 1-0 pb successful the three-match series.Gill praised the debutants aft the match, saying their quality to propulsion things backmost successful the mediate overs had been "very impressive".But portion Gill's match-winning sound and the debutants' exploits stole the headlines connected the field, it was Nitish's touching speech with his parent that provided the day's astir memorable moment.