Riyan Parag, the batsman of Rajasthan Royals (RR) is at a record third place in terms of runs made by uncapped players in one season during the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL).
On Wednesday at Ahmedabad, Parag had a crucial 36 off 26 balls in the Eliminator against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). The knock comprised two fours and two sixes while he had a strike rate of 138.46.
Parag scored 567 runs this season with a strike rate of 151.60 and an average of 56.70.This season, he has hit four fifties with his highest being an unbeaten knock of 84*. He’s gone into bat for 3rd most number of times.
In IPL’s “2023” Yashasvi Jaiswal from RR scored “625” runs from fourteen matches averaging “48.07”, with a “163.61” strike rate per fifty-five balls; thus setting up a new record as the most run scorer by uncapped player ever in an IPL edition. In addition to that, he recorded five half centuries and one hundred having his highest score as “124”.
The second un-capped player on this list is Shaun Marsh who was not yet selected for national duty in the same year but still managed to accumulate “616”. His average was quite impressive standing at exactly sixty-eight point forty-four besides, his SR indicated that every one hundred balls delivered amounted to one hundred thirty nine point sixty eight, where he made five fifties and reached three figures once scoring “115”.
Parag tops all-time Royals run-getters He broke Jos Buttler’s record in 2022 by scoring most runs by right-handed batsman(RR) hitting at number three: he amassed 863 runs in seventeen games averaging 57.53 and achieving a SR of149.05 which included four hundreds and four fifties. His highest score was 116. Jaiswal claims the second.
Also, Parag has the most runs in an IPL season for a batter batting at number four or lower. The highest from a player is Rishabh Pant of Delhi Capitals (DC) who scored “579” runs while batting in this position during the 2018 season. That particular year saw him scoring “684” with an average of “52.61” and exactly one hundred seventy three point six one as his strike rate; he also registered five half centuries along with his lone century knock of that tournament. Batting at number three just once in that entire campaign, Pant scored “105” runs off just fifty balls.
On Friday in Chennai, Rajasthan Royals will battle Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) to determine which team would face Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Sunday in Qualifier 2
