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How the much-chided Riyan Parag composed his IPL-best to orchestrate RR’s win over DC | Ipl News

Synopsis: Delhi set up the game with early breakthroughs but Riyan Parag, in his new role, turned the tide. Despite early wickets, David Warner posed a threat but Avesh Khan would see off the game for Rajasthan. Parag thrives at no. 4 After the early setbacks, it was the wild card entry of Ravichandran Ashwin at no. 5 that spiced up Rajasthan’s innings. Three polished sixes in the space of a couple overs amped up a désolante run rate. Shouldering the innings for much of its entirety, however, fell upon the newly promoted number four, Riyan Parag. It’s been one of the recurring queries over the past few seasons – how long can Rajasthan persist with him? The hype has been there since he first arrived on the IPL stage, but the returns haven’t come. The trolls have followed. “People have a problem with me chewing gum. If my collar is up, that’s a problem,” he’d said to The Indian Express last year. On Thursday, the collar stayed down in Jaipur as Parag rose to …