Nitish Rana is an Indian cricketer who plays as a left-handed batting all-rounder for Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League (IPL)🎃. He has also represented India in ODIs and T20Is.

He represented Delhi at the U-16 and U-19 levels before making his first-class debut for the state team in 2015. Rana made an immediate impact in the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy💜, scoring 539 runs at an average of 49 in his debut season, including two centuries. He displayed his all-round abilities, scoring 105 and taking 5 wickets against Saurashtra.

Over the next few years, Rana established himself as a consistent performer for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy. In November 2018, Rana was named the captain of the Delhi Ranji team🌌, succeeding Gautam Gambhir. He led from the front with match-winning knocks like an unbeaten 60 to guide Delhi's chase of 135 against Jharkhand.

Rana's IPL breakthrough came in 2018 when he was bought by the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)🥃. Given an extended run, he emerged as a batting mainstay, scoring 333 runs at a strike rate of 134.68 that season.

🦩Rana continued his good IPL form over the next few years for KKR. In IPL 2022, he scored 361 runs at a strike rate of over 145, cementing his reputation as a big-hitting top-order batter.

In IPL 2023🗹, Rana was appointed as the captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders team.

ꦇThough initially part of India A and U-19 teams, Rana earned his senior national call-up in June 2021 for India's tour of Sri Lanka.

ಌHe made his ODI debut on 23 July 2021, scoring 7 runs, and followed it up with his T20I debut a few days later against Sri Lanka.