{"id":163884,"date":"2026-05-05T23:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=163884"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:55:20","slug":"riyan-parag-has-gotten-too-many-rewards-after-not-really-working-hard-for-it-sanjay-manjrekar-on-rr-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=163884","title":{"rendered":"Riyan Parag has gotten too many rewards after not really working hard for it: Sanjay Manjrekar on RR captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70943825\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Rajasthan Royals turned heads after trading its marquee player and captain Sanju Samson to Chennai Super Kings in exchange for Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran. Royals\u2019 decision to elevate Riyan Parag to the captain\u2019s role surprised many, including former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a cricketing point of view, I don\u2019t think it makes any sense at all. I think it\u2019s a bit harsh to say this, but he\u2019s just got too much as a reward, not having really worked hard for those rewards,\u201d he said on        <b><i>Sportstar\u2019s Insight Edge Podcast<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_embed article-block-item\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rluDJ7e1zog?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Riyan had earlier captained the side in Samson\u2019s absence due to injury in the 2025 season. Manjrekar found the constant backing for Riyan, despite middling performances over the seasons, strange.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old\u2014who is the youngest captain in the IPL this season\u2014has scored 207 runs at an average of 23 with a strike rate of 143.75, while leading the team to six wins and four losses in 10 games. Barring a breakout season in 2024, where he scored 573 runs in 14 innings, averaging 52.09 and striking at 149.21, his numbers have been ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the kind of performances that I\u2019ve seen over the years, I find it a little strange that Rajasthan Royals have backed him so much,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<div class=\" article-picture center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ss-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/69889k\/article70944046.ece\/alternates\/FREE_1200\/insight%20edge%20graphics.png\" data-original=\"https:\/\/ss-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/69889k\/article70944046.ece\/alternates\/FREE_1200\/insight%20edge%20graphics.png\" alt=\"Barring a breakout season in 2024 where he scored 573 runs in 14 innings, averaging 52.09 and striking at 149.21, Riyan\u2019s numbers have been ordinary.\u00a0\" title=\"Barring a breakout season in 2024 where he scored 573 runs in 14 innings, averaging 52.09 and striking at 149.21, Riyan\u2019s numbers have been ordinary.\u00a0\" class=\" lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pic-caption\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption align-text-bottom\">\n<p> Barring a breakout season in 2024 where he scored 573 runs in 14 innings, averaging 52.09 and striking at 149.21, Riyan\u2019s numbers have been ordinary.\u00a0\n                            <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption-image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsss.thehindu.com\/theme\/images\/SSRX\/lightbox-info.svg\" alt=\"lightbox-info\"\/><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n<p>                            Barring a breakout season in 2024 where he scored 573 runs in 14 innings, averaging 52.09 and striking at 149.21, Riyan\u2019s numbers have been ordinary.\u00a0\n                                                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is a case I\u2019ve never understood. The only conclusion that I can draw is that the franchise and its management really like him as a talent and as a personality. They also saw some leadership qualities and backed him. We should also accept that when he plays like he did the other day, when he scored 90-odd, you can see the obvious talent he has.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat catches your eye with Riyan Parag is the unbelievable self-confidence that he shows. Even when he was not delivering, if you saw him in the field and the kind of stuff that he did, it was a lot of sort of doing things to get the attention. It was just almost arrogance for somebody who was struggling to fit in or deliver. So, it tells me about a person who has this confidence and it seems to be genuine. It doesn\u2019t seem to be a put-on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 06, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-news\/sanjay-manjrekar-riyan-parag-rajasthan-royals-captaincy-poor-performances-insight-edge-podcast-sportstar\/article70943825.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Royals turned heads after trading its marquee player and captain Sanju Samson to Chennai Super Kings in exchange for Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran. Royals\u2019 decision to elevate Riyan Parag to the captain\u2019s role surprised many, including former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar. \u201cFrom a cricketing point of view, I don\u2019t think it makes any&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163885,"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-163884","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\/05\/Lead20image201.png","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-GDi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163884","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=163884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}