Riyan Parag‘s IPL 2023 tournament is going from bad to worse. From promising to hit 4 sixes in 4 balls on Twitter to now only managing 3 sixes in 6 innings, Riyan Parag has been brought to the ground in cricket like only life does.
Riyan Parag had come into the IPL 2023 with a lot of expectations. But, that hill has slipped horribly: he was dropped by the half-way stage of the season and today, against Gujarat Titans, he came in as an Impact Player and failed to build even a substantial, sedate, low strike rate partnership.
Rajasthan Royals were needed to make use of the Impact Player in a batsman’s role today despite batting first – generally, teams pick an extra batsman while batting first and bring on a bowler as Impact Player. However, with RR losing their way early on – they were left reeling at 60/3 and sent in R Ashwin at number 5, and when Ashwin got out for 2 runs, they used Parag as an Impact Player.
Yes, he got out to a ripper from Rashid Khan on a two-paced deck in Jaipur. But shouldn’t let the Royals management into believing that Riyan deserves any more chances in this tournament. For, hey, a batter of the highest of calibers of Joe Root is sitting on the bench (RR can use Murugan Ashwin for Zampa and bring in Root for Padikkal/Riyan Parag).
Riyan Parag now has scored only 58 runs in 6 innings in IPL 2023 while facing 54 balls, hitting only 3 fours and 3 sixes.
As usual, Twitterati came up with a spate of memes on Riyan Parag for his another failure:
RR legend for a reason. #RRvGT
— Peeyush Sharma (@peeyushsharmaa) May 5, 2023
https://twitter.com/smileandraja/status/1654500605736505344?s=20
Riyan parag as impact player 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/GVoWJJVwe9
— charan reddy (@tamasha9999) May 5, 2023
|Riyan Parag| IPl HIGHLIGHTS 2023| 1080p| Top g? 🥵 pic.twitter.com/1zDZzdtFiX
— D (@RogueRook81) May 5, 2023
Riyan Parag😭 pic.twitter.com/0FmuyMO0uq
— Pulkit🇮🇳 (@pulkit5Dx) May 5, 2023
Riyan Parag is proving his worth 🔥#RRvsGT #GTvsRR pic.twitter.com/FRJKYzIJKu
— ShYam PraTap Bhadouria (@_SPSB) May 5, 2023
https://twitter.com/FarziCricketer/status/1654503711924944896?s=20
Riyan Parag wasted a sub, wasted a review and wasted 10 minutes.
Prolific.#RRvsGT— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) May 5, 2023
Abdul Samad and Riyan Parag after convincing their franchises to retain thempic.twitter.com/qTzIXNGxZP
— Abhishek (@be_mewadi) May 4, 2023
Riyan Parag in RR pic.twitter.com/JyYdYOLzPn
— aadil (@arcomedys) May 5, 2023
Riyan Parag as an impact Player for Rajasthan Royals 😇😇#RRvsGT pic.twitter.com/2sH3Tapqsc
— Radical Panther 2.0 (@RadicalPantherR) May 5, 2023
Riyan parag ipl every match #RRvsGT pic.twitter.com/tZZWVehRy7
— runmachinevirat (@runmachine117) May 5, 2023
Riyan parag ipl s performance#RRvsGT pic.twitter.com/DQ1iucMtal
— runmachinevirat (@runmachine117) May 5, 2023
Riyan Parag – part Time cricketer full Time bihu dancer💃🕺#RRvsGT pic.twitter.com/Z15UF4ijyW
— #SHEKHAWAT👑 🇵🇹 (@Shekaw014) May 5, 2023
Sangakara to Riyan Paragpic.twitter.com/FI1feUpRtD
— vaibhav hatwal2 ◟̽◞̽ 🤧 (@vaibhav_hatwal2) May 5, 2023
Teams:
Gujarat Titans (Playing XI): Wriddhiman Saha(w), Hardik Pandya(c), Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Abhinav Manohar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohit Sharma, Noor Ahmad, Mohammed Shami, Joshua Little
Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson(w/c), Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Adam Zampa, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal
