“I don’t know, I blame …”: Riyan Parag’s Heartbreaking Reaction to Defeat Against LSG

From being in Cruise Control for Most Part to Loosing The End in the End, Rajasthan Royals Skipper Riyan Parag Took All the Blame on Himself for the Narrow TWO-Run Defeat to LuckNow Super Giants in an ipl match heare on saturday. Chasing 181-Run Target, Victory Looked A Foregone Conclusion when Openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Teenager Vaibhavanshi Blasted Off Like A Rock, Stitching Together An 85-Run Partner Over.

Things were going great for the hosts with jaiswal striiking a superb 74 off 52 deliveryies and an equally bellyigerent parag smashing 39 off 26 balls.

But bot was dismissed by lsg pacer avesh Khan in the 18th over, more on account of the power selection of shoots.

RR could not take the shock of losing two well-set batter and finally fell too runs short.

“Really hard to process all the emotions. Put up a game collectively, “Said parag, who is on saturday due to a side strain to regular skipper sanju samson.

The last over, also bowled by Avesh, was one who is the lsg bowler putting his years of experience to test and comeing out winner. He also get rid of the dangerous shimron hatmyer to snuff out the rr challenge.

LSG Pacer Shardul Thakur Acknowledged Avesh’s Contribution in the Victory.

“We Knew Avesh’s capability. Credit to Prince (Yadav) and the way he bowled the 19th over. He can surprise the batters easy with his pace.

Parag thought would rue the last over bowled by his pher sandeep sharma. Sharma was cloobbered by LSG’s Abdul Samad for Four Sixes, which made the difference in the end.

“The Last Over (Bowled by Sharma) was unfortunate. I thought we would have stopped them to 165-170.

Avesh, who was adjudged player of the match said, he was just concentrating on producing his best yorkers in his last couple of overs.

“I don’t want to become mitchell starc, I want to become a good avesh khan. I wanted to bowl with class and take my time. Wanted to Execute my yorkers. Stop the boundaries in the first three balls, “He said.

The last over he bowled Saw Avesh Involved in an annaimated discussion with skipper pant before virtually always every delivery.

Avesh said, the discussion was about setting the field in the best possible way.

“We wanted to take our time (in the last over) and set the field right in the last over. I keep thinking about the team and win the game for the game. It is a long tournament and I just want to do for He added.

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