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20-year-old uncapped India cricketer Riyan Parag was seen angrily reacting to his Rajasthan Royals teammate Devdutt Paddikal, against the Gujarat Titans in the first IPL 2022 Qualifier game on 24 May. Similarly, Parag also had another moment in the game where he was spotted giving a death stare to another teammate Ravichandran Ashwin as they were caught in a bad run out.
After the match, Riyan Parag’s attitude became a talking point on social media where the Twitterati had a lot of varied opinions. One of these reactions included India and Mumbai Indians batter Suryakumar Yadav's tweet addressing the incident went viral wherein Yadav said that Riyan has an "amazing on-field attitude".
The netizens expressed their confusion with this reaction and questioned what was Yadav pointing towards. People tweeted whether this attitude by Parag was warranted especially towards senior players in the team. But a day later, Surya clarified his tweet as he wrote about how he was talking about Riyan Parag’s attitude while fielding. The tweet said, “For his fielding last night guys Chill ?.”
Unfortunately for Parag and the Rajasthan Royals, the Gujarat Titans defeated them in the first Qualifier where David Miller played a match-winning knock of 68 runs in 38 balls. The Protean went on to win the Player of the Match award for his antics as the Titans enter the final in their maiden season.
"The rest I tried to hit as hard as possible,” Miller
Addressing his knock, Miller said, “I think opportunity, firstly (what's changed?). I've been given a role, I felt extremely backed from the outset. My personal game - I'm enjoying my role, I've been playing for many years now.”
“Understanding my game a lot better. In high-pressure situations, you tend to go away from your game plan but I feel like I'm trying to keep everything together close to the game plan. There has been a lot of going wide to me on the off-side, so I decided actually for the first time to step across. Backed myself and went with it. The rest I tried to hit as hard as possible”, he further added.