21-year-old Nitish came to bat in the second T20 International when India had lost 2 wickets at the score of 25. After this, he scored a half-century in 27 balls and became the fourth youngest player from India to score a half-century. In the first place is Rohit who scored a half-century in 2007 at the age of 20. Tilak Verma is at second place and Rishabh Pant is at third place.

Against Bangladesh, Nitish played a half-century of 74 runs in 34 balls with the help of 4 fours and 7 sixes. He thrashed Bangladeshi bowling badly. This is Nitish's second T20 International match. He made an important partnership of 108 (49) runs for the fourth wicket with left-handed batsman Rinku Singh and brought India out of trouble.

With the help of this partnership, India had crossed the 100 mark in just 10 overs whereas at one time India's score was 35 runs losing 3 wickets in 5 overs. For the first time against Bangladesh, India lost 3 wickets inside the powerplay. In this match, Rinku was out after scoring 53 runs in 29 balls with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes.