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Nitish Kumar Reddy made his T20I debut against Bangladesh in 3 match series on 6 October 2024 at Gwalior and scored 16 runs off 15 balls while chasing. He came to limelight in the 2nd match of the series which held at Delhi on 9 October 2024 where he scored 74 runs off 35 balls with a strike rate of 217. In the same match, he bowled with figures of 2/23, taking 2 wickets including Mahmudullah, and awarded player of the match. With his excellent performance in the series he was named in the squad of Border–Gavaskar Trophy Nitish debuted in Test cricket for India on 22 November 2024, in Perth, during the Border–Gavaskar Trophy series. he was the top scorer with 41 runs in the first innings of this match and scored 38 not out in the 2nd innings. In the second test, he proved to be the standout performer for India in both innings, top scoring in both the innings with 42 runs each. Despite his efforts, india lost the match. At this point he had failed to reach a maiden half century narrowly in all four innings he had played. In the fourth test match of the series, he batted at No. 8 in the first innings with India's score at 196/6 and built a crucial partnership of 128 runs off 285 balls with Washington Sundar, scoring his first international Test century.

In December 2024 (Border Gavaskar Trophy) he scored the first ever century by an No.8 Indian batter in Australia.