It is said “Its good to be confident but another thing to be overconfident”. In the day and age where social media plays a huge role. Riyan Parag seems to have fallen foul with the Indian cricket fans on social media. The 21 year old from Assam seems to have shot himself in the foot again with a rather curious comment about himself.
Parag has been in tremendous form with the bat and ball for Assam during the 2022 Vijay Hazare trophy. Assam have already qualified for the Quarter finals after a string of good performances during the league phase of the tournament.
The story so far –
Riyan Parag has been under the scanner on social media for a long time now. Be it antics on the field or his comments of the field, the 21 year old has been constantly facing trolling and criticism from fans.
Riyan Parag puts himself on par with MSD –
Riyan Parag was recently speaking to SPORTSKEEDA where he speaking about the toughest places to bat. Speaking to the Web portal, Parag said “It's the tougher job in T20 cricket, to just come in and slog. Numbers six and seven are the hardest places to play in T20 cricket. Only some of the guys have mastered it. Not even some, I'll just say only MS Dhoni has mastered it and no one else has. And I am doing it at such an early stage in my career. Not even master it, I am just getting to close to knowing what it all feels like – I am just sorting my way through it. So people can just talk whatever they want, but I know how hard a job it is and my team believes in me”
Rajasthan Royals retain Parag –
A few days ago, Riyan Parag was amongst the people who were retained by the runners up of the 2022 TATA IPL Rajasthan Royals. The team led by Sanju Samson seem to have kept the faith on the talented youngster who scored 183 runs during the season including a half century against RCB.
Speaking about the franchise, Parag spoke about the lows faced during the 2020 and 2021 seasons and the confidence shown on him by Sanju Samson and Kumar Sangakkara.
Parag so far has played 7 games during the Vijay Hazare 2022 tournament and scored 363 runs with an average of 60.5 and has picked 8 wickets with the ball.
Twitter reacts –
Cricket fans did not take lightly to the comments by Riyan Parag and slammed him and you can read all the posts below.
Mastered it with massive 126 SR😭😭 https://t.co/9a66ceA1cv
— Chicken Man (@GustavoFring_41) November 26, 2022
Riyan Parag said - "No.6 and 7 are the hardest places to bat in T20 cricket. Only MS Dhoni has mastered it to play at this Number and no one else has". (To Sportskeeda)
— CricketMAN2 (@ImTanujSingh) November 25, 2022
Riyan Parag said - "No.6 and 7 are the hardest places to bat in T20 cricket. Only MS Dhoni has mastered it to play at this Number and no one else has". (To Sportskeeda)
— CricketMAN2 (@ImTanujSingh) November 25, 2022