IPL: Move Over Shubman Gill, Prithvi Shaw, Riyan Parag Powers Rajasthan Royals to Thrilling Win Over Kolkata Knight Riders by 3 Wickets, Twitter Applauds 17-Year-Old | SEE POSTS

Riyan Parag played a steady hand of 47 off just 31 balls to take Rajasthan Royals close to the finishing line in match 43 vs Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL.

IPL 2019 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: What a sensational turnaround from Rajasthan Royals! From 98/5 in 11 overs to 177/7 in 19.2 overs, Rajasthan almost pulled off an unthinkable as Riyan Parag, Jofra Archer steered them a brilliant three-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens on Thursday. At the age of 17, Parag (47) showed terrific composure and batted with a lot of maturity and took the visitors close to the win. It was a fantastic win in the end for the tourists, especially taking into account the position they were in after losing the best players rather early.

The Powerplay belonged to Rajasthan despite losing Ajinkya Rahane. However, later the tide completely swung in Kolkata’s favour. Their spinners, Piyush Chawla and Sunil Narine, ran through the top order and allowed others to chip in and eat into the tail. All seemed lost but young Parag had other ideas in mind. He stitched a few solid stands but the main one came with Archer (44 runs off 21 balls) where they just scored freely. Parag departed for 41, but Archer hung around and gave the finishing touches for the Royals, with 4 balls still to spare. Here’s how the Twitter world applauded Parag and Archer’s blitz in Edens:-

#RR Riyan Parag Das (47) – 17y-166d – missed a fifty again and being the youngest to hit an #IPL fifty.#KKRvRR#IPL2019

— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) April 25, 2019

Whoaaa…super game in the end. Riyan Parag….hope to hear his name quite a lot from here onwards. Temperament Top Class. ☺️🤗👏👏 #KKRvRR #IPL

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) April 25, 2019

Riyan Parag take a bow! This kid is only 17 years old! Incredible innings! A display of immense maturity! Unlucky to get out! #RR #IPL2019

— Mustafa Ismail (@MustiMachine) April 25, 2019

This Riyan Parag has something really special in him. Every one talks about Gill & Shaw, just look at his temperament & maturity he is showing at this stage of match. He is just 17, and will go up and up from here. Wanna see him more.#KKRvRR

— Brainfaded Ross Taylor (@iRoshan_Rv) April 25, 2019

Riyan Parag To KKR bowlers* #KKRvRR pic.twitter.com/71lpgNq6po

— Aaditya Goswami (@__Aaditya______) April 25, 2019

Riyan parag fearless,discipline and dominate… what a young gun, he is played his own game and hold nervous… #KKRvRR

— Anil Kanna (@AnilKanna5) April 25, 2019

Riyan Parag a Super natural talent
Archer is the one who loves finishing up Nicely
Bails finally say yes to something but this time to a Bat!
Dinesh never gets old!
KKR showing signs of exiting without a fight
That’s it today’s match Summed Up!#KKRvRR

— Charan (@Crio961) April 25, 2019

RIYAN PARAG..U LITTLE GUN#KKRvRR

— Navdeep Singh (@navi0815) April 25, 2019

#RiyanParag playing with gamcha around his waist is classic way to show assamese culture! Only 17 years old hitting sixes in IPL#SelectDugout #IPL2019 #RRvKKR #IPL12 #KKRvRR pic.twitter.com/avpWF8geaP

— IPL_का_Messi🏏🏆⚽ (@Navin___Chhetri) April 25, 2019

Another U-19 player Riyan Parag doing wonders in IPL along with Prithvi Shaw and Shubham Gill.#KKRvRR

— Farrago Abdullah (@abdullah_0mar) April 25, 2019

Riyan Parag’s so young his dad has played with Dhoni. However this ends, supreme calm under pressure so far from the kid! #KKRvRR

— Srinath (@srinathsripath) April 25, 2019

This boy Riyan Parag has Solid cricketing attitude 💪👍🏻 #Assam #RRvsMI

— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) April 20, 2019

Earlier, under-fire skipper Dinesh Karthik silenced his critics with a career-best 97 not out as Knight Riders recovered from an atrocious start to post a competitive 175 for six against Royals. Under pressure to perform after a string of five straight defeats, the World Cup-bound Karthik promoted himself to No. 4, shrugging off criticism, and smashed nine sixes and seven fours in his 50-ball unbeaten knock, as KKR hit top gear in the back end of the innings, scoring 126 from the last 10 overs and 75 off the last five overs.

On a day their impact player Andre Russell looked lacklustre in his run-a-ball 14, in which he was dropped twice, it was a one-man show from Karthik who went berserk against the likes of Jaydev Unadkat and Shreyas Gopal.

Karthik seized the momentum in the 11th over when he hit Shreyas Gopal for a six followed by three boundaries in an over that yielded 25 runs and KKR did not look back since then.