MI vs RR – IPL 2024 – Shane Bond on Riyan Parag: ‘He jogs my memory of Suryakumar Yadav’

“He form of jogs my memory a little bit little bit of Surya [Suryakumar], who got here to Mumbai a couple of years in the past,” Bond, who could also be RR’s bowling trainer, stated on the post-match press convention. “He looks as if that – he has were given excessive skill. He has simply matured as a cricketer, despite the fact that he’s simplest 22.”

Bond shifted to Royals’ personnel this 12 months, after a nine-year stint with Mumbai. He stated Royals had arrange their line-up this 12 months to get extra out of Parag. “He has had an impressive home season, clearly, batting up the order. The industry we made with Devdutt [Padikkal], bringing Avesh [Khan] in, that was once to place Riyan up right into a place which was once almost certainly higher suited.”

Bond stated it was once unfair to pass judgement on Parag on earlier seasons, when he needed to play the position of finisher at this kind of younger age. “Riyan began so younger, you fail to remember that he was once 17 or one thing, enjoying in one of the crucial hardest spots in a batting line-up: No. 6. You take a look at the characters who end video games across the IPL, they’re usually beautiful skilled guys. The Tim Davids, the David Millers… those are top quality avid gamers who play world cricket. Riyan were tasked with that for quite a lot of years. He’s nonetheless an overly younger guy, however he has were given this wealth of enjoy at the back of him now.

“We’re getting the most efficient of him. The funding that RR have manufactured from him, it is beginning to reap the rewards. It’s beautiful thrilling what he may just be offering for the remainder of the season for us.”

“Riyan began so younger, you fail to remember that he was once 17 or one thing, enjoying in one of the crucial hardest spots in a batting line-up: No. 6. You take a look at the characters who end video games across the IPL, they’re usually beautiful skilled guys.”

Do not pass judgement on Parag on seasons previous, says Bond

“The contest is beautiful difficult, so one of the crucial actual demanding situations for any bowler entering this match is to fail to remember that there’s a [T20] International Cup [coming up], and also you get started bowling to get into the International Cup crew.

“In case your [IPL] crew is a hit, you’re in a profitable crew, picks and rewards come from that. That has extra of been our focal point, to fail to remember about all that different noise from the outdoor and simply paintings in point of fact exhausting for each and every different.

“If we do this, I’ve were given unquestionably individuals are going to begin speaking, such as you [the journalist asking the question] at the moment are, about Chahal and whether or not he’s going to characteristic within the International Cup or no longer. He’s bowling fantastically.”