Riyan Parag IPL 2024 : Whenever there is talk of Rajasthan Royals in IPL, the first name that comes to mind is that of Riyan Parag. Rajasthan Royals and Riyan Parag have become perfect complements to each other. Even though Parag’s performance has not been anything special in the last few years, the team has been continuously backing him. Even during the 2022 auction, RR had bought him at expensive prices. Now, the kind of fire that Parag’s bat has shown in the first two matches of this year’s IPL, everyone has come to know about his usefulness.
Rajasthan had a very slow start against Delhi
Riyan Parag played a big role in helping Delhi Capitals win the match single-handedly on Thursday. When the Rajasthan Royals team came on the field to bat first, the team had a very slow start. Opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler and the captain Sanju Samson who came after them also could not score much runs. After this, Riyan Parag, who came at number four, also had a very slow start. But after the kind of explosive batting he did in the last overs, it seemed that he had opened the thread.
Parag played match winning innings against Delhi
Riyan Parag has been with Rajasthan Royals for a long time. Bought for Rs 3.80 crore during the 2022 auction. Although Gujarat Titans also wanted to buy him, but in the end RR team won. Meanwhile, if we talk about the match, this time Rajasthan has promoted them in the batting order. Earlier he used to play at number six or seven, but he has been given the responsibility of number four, which Parag is liking. He played a brilliant inning of 84 runs on just 45 balls against DC.
Enrique Norkhia scored 25 runs in the last over.
He also played slowly in the beginning, but his storm came in the last overs. The whole world saw the way he thrashed a world famous bowler like Enrique Norkhia in the last over of the innings. By scoring 25 runs on six balls, he took his team to a respectable score. He hit two fours on the first two balls of this over. After this he hit a six on the third ball. Again a four came on the fourth ball and a six was hit on the fifth ball. He took one run on the last ball. This was the reason that the team which was able to score only 160 runs at the end of the 19th over, reached 185 runs after 20 overs. The special thing is that Rajasthan had scored only 108 runs in 15 overs, then no one thought that the team would score such a big score, this was the last over, due to which Rajasthan team finally won the match by 12 runs. Managed to capture.
Riyan Parag played his best innings of IPL
Riyan Parag has played an unbeaten inning of 84 runs against Delhi. Earlier, he had also played an excellent inning of 43 runs against LSG. This is also his biggest score in IPL so far. He has scored a total of 727 runs by playing 56 matches in IPL so far. This includes three half-centuries. He has rarely got a chance to bowl, but despite this he has taken four wickets. It remains to be seen how Riyan Parag performs for his team in the future.
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