Tour of England Reddy toured England with an Indian Schools XI in July and August 1973, scoring a century against a Midland Counties schools team. He made his
first-class debut a few weeks later for
Vazir Sultan Tobacco Colts XI at the age of 18, captaining a team of nine other first-class debutants. In quick succession he then kept wicket for Rest of India in the
Irani Cup and for
South Zone in the
Duleep Trophy before making his
Ranji Trophy debut for
Tamil Nadu, all before the end of 1973. Before the 1973–74 season was out he had also played two first-class matches for an Indian XI against Rest of India, and made a short tour of
Sri Lanka with an
Indian team as the reserve wicket-keeper to
Pochiah Krishnamurthy, playing in the match against Sri Lanka Board President's XI. Neither Reddy nor Krishnamurthy succeeded
Farokh Engineer when he retired from
Test cricket shortly afterwards, however, the selectors preferring
Syed Kirmani. Reddy kept wicket in one of the three matches India played against
Sri Lanka in 1975–76, and as Kirmani's deputy he toured
Australia in 1977–78 and
Pakistan in 1978–79. He got his chance in Test cricket when Kirmani was dropped and Reddy
toured England as the first-choice wicket-keeper in 1979. He played in all four Tests in a series that India lost one-nil, but was not impressive. Reddy
toured Australia and
New Zealand as Kirmani's deputy in 1980–81 without playing a Test.
International career He played three
One Day Internationals between 1978 and 1981, against Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand. His best season with the bat was 1981–82, when he made 326 runs at 32.60 with three fifties, including his highest career score of 88 against
Kerala. He captained Tamil Nadu from 1982–83 to 1985–86. Against Kerala in 1982–83 he took six catches in the second innings and eight in the match. ==After cricket==