Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar made a unique evaluation of the bowling of Captain Ryan Parag, the stand-in Captain of Rajasthan Royals. This happened when Parag claimed Ajinkya Rahane, a skipper of the Kolkata Knight Riders’ wicket during the IPL 2025 match among the parties on Sunday. On the fourth ball of the 13th over, Parag bowled with a round-arm release, which reduced the closed spin. As a result, the ball did not bounce much and slipped after pitching. Rahane tried to play a sweep shot and got a top lead on the RR wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurlel.
After the wicket, Gavaskar, who was on-air, told his fellow commentators Allen Wilkins and Eoin Morgan, “Have you ever made a plate of Pakodas, Mixed Pakodas?”
Wilkins replied, “Okay, go, yes I have.”
Gavaskar continued, “So this mixed pakoda, potato pakora, then Shimla chilli Pakora, onion Pakoda, everything everything, mixed Pakora, is such a bowling.”
Wilkins once again replied, “Oh Gosh, I have heard some details of a bowler, what do you call it? It loves it, incense. Beautiful.”
Rajasthan Royals captain Ryan Parag feels that he made the target miss and failed to finish the match as Kolkata Knight Riders won one run in an exciting encounter at Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Parag played a brilliant knock of 95 runs in 45 balls with eight sixes and six fours in 45 balls, but failed to finish the game for his side as he was reduced to a run chasing 22 in the last over.
Chasing 207, Rajasthan was on the target with 52, which required 30 balls with pollen and Shubam Dubey at the crease. But the dismissal of the parague in the 18th over shifted the tide in favor of KKR. However, Dubey tried to snatch the victory from KKR’s jaw, but despite scoring two sixes and a four, the target was reduced to one run.
“I was very sad about getting out myself. Perhaps a miscaliation from my side, I should have finished it. I think we could get a better option in the last six overs. I think they were 120 or 130 and our spinners had really done well and maybe we could cut their hands, but the game was in our hands.”
While reflecting his bowling performance in the match, Parag admitted that he could better use his resources against Andre Russell who scored 25-goals 57 runs at the end of the innings,
“I did not want to bowl the back-to-back to the bowlers, but now it seems that perhaps we could do something else. We have to give credit for (Russell) because he has come, because he had taken his time. The way he was quick. It was amazing to see the way he was. It was a land, so I knew that I was fulfilling my boundaries. I was not the right and we were here,”
(With IANS input)
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