The year 2024 was nothing special for Nitish Rana. In the IPL, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) got an opportunity to play in just two matches due to the first injury and then the team combination in the Khita Jews Campaign. After this, when the domestic season came, he was dropped from the Ranji team of Uttar Pradesh due to only one half -century in six innings of the first four matches of the Ranji Trophy.
After this, he played nine matches of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, but his average was only 13.88 and the strike rate was 114.43. He was dropped from the team after a match in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and he was not in the team even when the second phase of the Ranji Trophy began.
Playing for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2025, he had two half -centuries in his name, but in half a dozen innings, he could not even touch the double digits. After this, Rana decided to return home, citing family reasons and said that he will play for Delhi’s domestic season of 2025-26. Now Rana has celebrated this homecoming Delhi Premier League (DPL) season-2 with the title win, where he was the captain of the West Delhi Riders team. He played three unbeaten match-winning innings (135*, 45*, 79*) with a century and a half-century in three play-off matches and told that he is a big match player.
Talking to reporters after this player win, Rana said, “It is very important for big players to walk in a big match because there is a lot of pressure in these matches. The big players get a little better to deal with pressure and I keep myself in the same category that can easily remove the match in pressure.”
Rana’s start in DPL was not right. After playing 39 runs in 15 balls in the first match, he continued to fail and scored more than 20 once in the next six innings. He gave signs of return for the form by scoring 25 runs in eight balls in the last league match, but when the team needed the most in the first qualifier, he brought his team to the title of 134 runs with the help of eight fours and 15 skyscraper sixes in 55 balls.
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Rana says, “As an experienced player, you know whether you are in good rhythm or not. I knew that I was batting well, just not coming on the run board. But I was continuously backing myself. I was just a big innings away from my form and I knew that it is coming soon. It is soon to come. It was only when the team was the most needed. Made. However, I was trying to return the form from the first match. “
During Rana’s century innings in the first playoffs, there was also a noose from South Delhi Superstar spinner Digvesh Rathi, which immediately went viral on social media. However, Rana does not want to talk too much on this.
He said, “It would be very unfair that if I put my point on this matter and Rathi’s side will not come. If only my point will be printed then it will feel that I am right and that wrong. Yes, I can just say that he started and I waged me, then I also replied to him. I have also increased Delhi and I have a hot blood and I will also teach me. If you are not wrong, raise your voice and I would do the same.
From IPL 2017 to IPL 2023 for seven consecutive years, Rana, one of some rare players who scored at least 300 runs in each IPL season, also came to the Indian team in the Kovid time of 2021. He also played one ODI and two T20s in Sri Lanka. But after this, he never got a chance in the Indian team again. However, during this time he continued to perform better at domestic cricket and IPL level and also captained his Ranji and IPL teams.
Rana said that this is an experience, which makes him a strong cricketer under such match circumstances. He said, “Cricket is a game of experience. When you rub yourself, go through bad times, then it becomes very important at that time how much you are trying to learn from him. I have also learned all these things over time. My form has been spoiled many times, many times I have fought myself, I have also punished myself. But I have a lot of trust in my own ways. I get and many times I fail. But all this is part of this game. “
The domestic season of 2022-23 was also not good for Rana. In the Ranji Trophy, he scored only 71 runs at an average of 17.75 and was ruled out of the team only after three matches. Subsequently, he decided to leave Delhi and go to Uttar Pradesh in search of better occasions.
Rana says, “I went to Uttar Pradesh because I used to think that maybe I could play better in a new place. But it could not happen there. Now I have left behind the things that I have come back to Delhi in the same dressing room from where I had learned to score.
Rana has returned with a bang in Delhi cricket, but does not want to pressurize him to return to the Indian team. He said, “There are many things to think like this. I want to return to the Indian team as well, but by doing so I will pressurize myself. So now I do not think much. My effort is that I should pay attention to the things that are under my control. Currently I have my cricket under my control and I am just paying attention to it.“(agency)
