Rajasthan Royals seemed to have finished the game against KKR when he hit the tragedy
Not many had given Rajasthan’s reais an opportunity against Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2025 clash of the Premier League of Sunday’s Indian Premier (IPL). The defending champions are not even closer to the best in the current edition, but there have been shine flashes.
Persuring 207, there were five wickts down and needed 105 races of 48 balls. Captain Riyan Parag, who was hitting with 45 of 26 balls, then changed the equation in the space of six balls.
Assam’s batter demolished Moeen Ali with five six consecutive and squeezed 32 runs from the return since the RR suddenly needed 73 of 42 balls.
Parag managed to score six of six legal deliveries when he smoked Varun Chakravarthy with a sensational inverse sweep. The RR captain scored 45 in 13 balls in that period while running at the nineties.
Riyan Parag establishes the persecution of RR on the track
Suddenly, RR needed 52 of 30 balls and with Shimron Hetmyer backup for the Para, the hope was instilled. Harshit Rana, who was taken to the cleaners until then, got the Hetmyer Wickt while Parag also perished on the 18th when 34 races were needed.
Shubham Dubey, who was bought with the same purpose of hitting sixES, made sure RR remained in the game while smoking Vaibhav Arora for 6, 4 and 6 in the last. With only three required races outside the final ball, Shubham fell to a yorker halfway and ran through two races, but Jofra Archer was short of a patio to see them lose only for a single race.
This was the fourth defeat of the last defeat that RR suffered while pursuing after suffocating against the Lucknow, Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bengaluru super giants.
They managed to invoke the Super against DC, but miserably failed in that and pressed the self -destruction button against KKR.
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A Riyan Para clearly in Crest-Fallen assumed all the responsibility of defeat.
“I feel horrible when giving this interview here, but it is like the game. You have to be clinical, the consequences are here,” Parag said in the interview after the game.
“I was sad, I was going out. I was planning to stay until the last one.
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KKR was driven by a late attack by Andre Russell, who scored an undefeated 57 of 25 balls. Parag felt that they should have cut some races while playing bowling, but felt that the fault falls to the batters.
“I think we could have found better options in the first six overs. The spinners did very well. We could have sought to reduce some races with the ball. But the game was in our hands, we should have finished this,” Parag said.
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