Nitin Saini

Nitin Saini is a cricketer who plays for Haryana [cricket team|Haryana] in Indian domestic cricket. He has also played for the Indian Premier League franchise team Kings [XI Punjab]. Saini is a right-hand wicket-keeper batsman who usually opens the batting.

Career

Saini made his first-class cricket debut for Haryana at the age of 18 against Saurashtra during the 2006/07 season of the Ranji Trophy. He earned a permanent spot for his state side with impressive performances in all three formats of the game. In the 2011/12 season he scored 631 runs in eight matches at a batting average of 40, scoring five fifties and a hundred. Soon after he signed a contract with Kings XI Punjab to play in the 2012 Indian Premier League, only playing for the side in the one season.
Saini scored over 900 runs in the 2016/17 Ranji Trophy, one of the highest aggregates in the trophy's history.