The name of a Rajasthan Royals cricketer is Riyan Parag – the top order batsman of the team, so the record should be the same. Record till 2022 IPL season – 522 runs in 37 innings of 47 matches at an average of less than 17. Record in first 3 matches of 2023 season - 34 runs in 29 balls i.e. till 10 April 2023 IPL record - 556 runs in 50 matches at 16.35 average and 124.38 strike rate in which
Two scores of 50. Now note some facts:
* Those batsmen who are counted and have played 50 IPL matches - this is the least number of runs by anyone.
* Ryan's worst batting average.
* One of only 12 cricketers to score 2 or less 50s in their first 50 IPL matches.
Now it is not difficult to guess why this question is in the discussion that how such a simple record 50 IPL matches were played and the interesting thing is that still one of the regular cricketers of the team. This is one of the biggest mysteries of IPL. This is a very funny and unique story of IPL.
India's 2018 Under-19 World Cup winning team player Riyan Parag was bought by Rajasthan Royals for a base price of Rs 20 lakh in the third and final round of pre-IPL 2019 auction. He had batted in the team nets prior to that but was not the team's first choice - that's why nobody bought him in the first two rounds. Nothing special, RR settled into the team and were counted as finishers. RR bought back in the pre-IPL 15 mega auction for Rs- this time for Rs 3.8 crore. In response, scored only 183 runs at 138.64 strike-rate. Yet ahead of the 2023 season, the franchise retained – same result. The most important thing is that one of the most talked about cricketers on social media.
Last season, Simon Dull discussed the loss of his playing to the team and said that social media was responsible for his continuous play, then such news of Dull was taken that he would always remember. However, this does not solve the puzzle that how is a cricketer with such a modest record getting a place in the RR team? Such a simple record and yet a team with full faith in him. On that Riyan Parag says that he wants to become the greatest finisher in Indian cricket. Not only this, so much enthusiasm in this young player that he made fun of the third umpire for not accepting a catch by Marcus Stoinis and got angry with senior R Ashwin during a run out.
Madan Lal feels Parag is one of the few players whose game shows no improvement - yet continues to play in the IPL from season to season. IPL 2019 – 160 runs in 7 matches, 86 runs in 12 matches in 2020, 93 runs in 11 matches in 2021 and 183 runs in 17 matches in 2022. All the opportunities that Parag got - and no one else got but no improvement in cricket. It can also be said in this way that Parag has talent but he is not playing accordingly.
Sports are in the blood. On IPL debut, Riyan was caught by MS Dhoni against Chennai Super Kings and history is that when Dhoni made his Ranji Trophy debut for Bihar in 1999-00, he also played a match against Assam in the league under the name of Parag. Had played against the player and it was none other than Riyan's father. He played under the name of Parag Das - a right-handed batsman and medium pace bowler. Riyan's mother Mithu Baruah is an international swimmer.
Riyan knows that he gets trolled on social media but now he does not worry about it. The most important thing is that the royals have always supported him. He says- 'The team understands my role. How difficult is it - it's between the team and me. No one knows what is going on there and what do I do or why is the team backing me? I know I will play for India and I will.
Time will tell what happened?
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