{"id":158987,"date":"2026-04-24T15:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=158987"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:37:33","slug":"hes-hitting-really-well-just-needs-to-stitch-together-few-more-runs-sangakkara-not-losing-sleep-over-parags-poor-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=158987","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s hitting really well, just needs to stitch together few more runs\u2019 – Sangakkara not losing sleep over Parag\u2019s poor form"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag might be going through one of his leanest spells as a batter in the Indian Premier League. The 24-year-old has struggled so far in IPL 2026, managing just 81 runs from seven innings.<\/p>\n

Royals\u2019 coach Kumar Sangakkara, though, isn\u2019t losing sleep over Parag\u2019s batting form.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s batting really well,\u201d said Sangakkara on the eve of the Royals\u2019 match against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Jaipur on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re batting well, sometimes you don\u2019t always score. I would have been concerned if he wasn\u2019t hitting the ball well. I think he\u2019s hitting it really well. He just needs to stitch together a few more runs so that he sets himself a good platform to attack in the end,\u201d said Sangakkara.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The former Sri Lankan skipper also explained the rationale behind Parag\u2019s elevation as the Royals\u2019 skipper.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than anyone else\u2019s influence, why we chose Riyan as captain is that his learning curve has been steep. He has learned a lot from others, but more importantly, from himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

READ: IPL 2026, RR vs SRH: Royals hope not to repeat mistakes from away leg even as Cummins returns to lead Sunrisers<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a young player under so much pressure from the start of his career in RR. Riyan was, a lot of the time, front and centre in a lot of our social media. He was always put out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause he was an exciting young cricketer and had this aura about him. A pretty good-looking guy as well. But that also brings with it a lot of pressure. And sometimes it\u2019s unfair to have such a young guy be under that pressure. I think he has learned a lot from those experiences,\u201d added Sangakkara.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Royals coach added that Parag will continue to have the team\u2019s backing as it expects him to grow into the role.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a player, as a batter, the franchise backs him 100 per cent. And what\u2019s really exciting for me is to see how he has just embraced the captaincy and the leadership. And you can see even in the last game how good a captain he was. So, I think he will learn more and more about pressure and he will get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Published on Apr 24, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag might be going through one of his leanest spells as a batter in the Indian Premier League. The 24-year-old has struggled so far in IPL 2026, managing just 81 runs from seven innings. Royals\u2019 coach Kumar Sangakkara, though, isn\u2019t losing sleep over Parag\u2019s batting form.\u00a0 \u201cI think he\u2019s batting really…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/07_IPL_PRACTICE_24_04_JAIPUR.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-Fmj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}