In a world where social media never forgets, cricketers often find themselves living in the shadow of their own words. For Riyan Parag, one tweet he wrote in confidence, went viral. In the tweet he stated “ My inner conscience says i’m hitting 4 sixes in an over at some point this IPL,” he tweeted this on 14th of March, 2023.
He faced backlash after his tweet went viral, public trolled him very badly by making memes, and criticized him. But yesterday at Eden Gardens’ Parag the Skipper of RR sent six consecutive balls sailing over the boundary to score 36 runs in 6 balls . The internet shattered, but this time it wasn’t to mock him but to celebrate him. After his tremendous innings that old tweet mentioned above got viral.
Few years ago, when he tweeted this it was ambitious, especially coming from a very young player who, at the time, was still struggling to score and find consistency in the IPL. Fans and critics saw it as his overconfidence and arrogance. He didn’t do well in IPL 2023, when he tweeted this, so the tweet became a meme material everytime Parag underperformed. But now, the same tweet is a prophecy fulfilled.
Watch: Click here to Watch Riyan Parag hitting 6 sixes
Yesterday at Eden Gardens, In RR vs KKR match, Rajasthan Royals had to chase 207 runs in 20 overs . But their young opener Vaibhav suryawanshi got dismissed in the very first over. New debutant came Kunal Rathore but he got out on duck, the wickets were falling back to back, after seven overs their score was 71/5, parag was still on the crease. The momentum was shifted on KKR, for RR it wasn’t easy to chase.
Riyan Parag was still performing for RR, like a one man show, he scored 95 runs in 45 balls at the strike rate of 211.1. But the 13th over which was bowled by England’s bowler Moeen Ali was something else the fans were stunned. In that over Parag hammered five sixes in an over and the very first ball of 14th over went for six, he got six sixes in 6 balls, very beautiful innings. Later Parag got dismissed by Harshit Rana and he missed his well deserved century.
Riyan Parag has improved his game a lot, we all saw a new version of riyan parag when he started performing for Rajasthan Royals. In 2024, IPL season was a breakthrough season for him, he performed really well in that season, Parag scored 573 runs at an average of over 50. Rajasthan Royals has always backed Parag since 2019 even though he wasn’t doing well. Many questions were raised on RR, there were many people questioning why RR is retaining Parag in every Auction. Rajasthan always showed faith in him and today he has become one the emerging players of RR, And Sanju Samson got injured so Parag is leading RR as a captain.
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In yesterday’s match Parag almost got RR closer to win the match against KKR but he couldn’t finish the match. KKR won the match by 1 run by a very tight margin. After this innings Parag has secured his spot on a list of batters Consecutive hitting 5 sixes in an over. Parag is the fifth batter to score five consecutive sixes in an over. In this list the very first batsman to do it was;
- Chris Gayle in 2012
- Rahul Tewatia in 2020
- Ravindra Jadeja in 2021
- Rinku Singh in 2023
- Riyan Parag in 2025.
Parag made his manifestation come true after 2 years. Also he took 1 wicket yesterday while bowling. His performance was very impressive but he couldn’t finish the game for RR. Parag’s cricket journey hasn’t been easy. There are many ups and downs but at the end all that matters is he made improvement and is back in action with performing for his team. Riyan is still very young, he is 23 years old, he has a very bright future ahead and fans are eagerly waiting for what he does next.
Written by – Kinjal Valantra
