Produturi Akshath Reddy (born 11 February 1991, Hyderabad) is an Indian

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player who plays for Hyderabad in the domestic cricket. He is a right-handed batsman. Reddy made his debut against Rajasthan and was signed up by

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for

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. He was part of the IPL 2013 season with the new owners of the Hyderabad franchise, the

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. Reddy scored 359 runs at 51 from five matches in the

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, and 316 runs from the same number of games in the Under-22 CK Nayudu Trophy in the 2008–09 season. He was named in the U-19 squad for the 2010 World Cup in New Zealand. Reddy was encouraged by his father, a former volleyball player, to take up sport seriously. Reddy's idol is India's great

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and compares his style of play to Australia's

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. In November 2018, in Hyderabad's match against

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in the

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, he scored his maiden double-century in first-class cricket. He was the leading run-scorer for Hyderabad in the tournament, with 797 runs in eight matches. In August 2019, he was named in the India Green team's squad for the

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