India, Dec. 12 -- Nitish Kumar Reddy, who currently finds himself out of India's T20 squad, has thrown his hat into the ring for the World Cup selection by picking up a hat-trick in the ongoing Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on Friday. The all-rounder picked up the wickets of Harsh Gawli, Harpreet Singh and Rajat Patidar in the third over of the innings. This performance comes amidst the poor show by Shivam Dube in the ongoing T20I series against South Africa, and hence the selectors might be forced to look at Reddy if Dube continues to slide down in the pecking order.

Reddy was recently part of India's Test and ODI squads for the series against South Africa, but was overlooked for the T20I setup as Hardik Pandya made a comeback from his injury...