"Done a lot of things right": Riyan Parag’s shocking take on RR’s disastrous IPL 2025 campaign

Riyan Parag-led Rajasthan Royals (RR) hosted the Hardik Pandya-led Mumbai Indians (MI) in the 50th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 on Thursday, May 1.

Rajasthan Royals (RR) lost the IPL 2025 match against the Mumbai Indians (MI) by 100 runs at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. With this, they got knocked out of the IPL 2025 playoffs race.

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We have to give credit to the way MI played - Riyan Parag

Opting to bowl first in the match, RR allowed MI to post a big score of 217/2 on the board as Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Suryakumar Yadav, and Hardik Pandya took the bowlers to cleaners. For the Rajasthan Royals, Maheesh Theekshana and Riyan Parag got one wicket each.

Chasing the target, Rajasthan Royals had a horrible outing as they were bowled out for 117 in 16.1 overs, with Jofra Archer (30) being the top performer.

Speaking after the match, Riyan Parag said that they had a poor day with the bat. He stated:

"We have to give credit to the way MI played. The way they batted, took the game a little deep, kept the 10 runs per over consistency and accelerated in the end. As far as our batting is concerned it wasn't our day."

Hardik and Surya bhai at the end really switched it up - Riyan Parag

Riyan Parag added that chasing a score of around 190-200 would have been ideal for them, but Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya took MI to an even bigger total. He said:

"190-200 would have been ideal (to chase), but then Hardik and Surya bhai at the end really switched it up, we could have done a few things better but it is how it is. We have been getting good starts but it is up to the middle order - myself, Dhruv, for us to step up when we lose wickets in the powerplay, but we still back ourselves, if another situation (like today) comes up then we will be up for it.

While talking about the poor season of the Rajasthan Royals (RR), Riyan Parag said that they did a lot of things right but a lot of things wrong as well. He stated:

"(how has the season gone) We have done a lot of things right, lot of things wrong, we want to focus on the things we have done right, lot of mistakes, lot of small errors, focus on how to not make them and we have had a few close matches, if we get an opportunity like the first 10 games in the next 3 then hopefully we can do it better."

RR won the previous IPL match against MI

In their previous IPL match, Rajasthan Royals delivered a dominant all-round performance to hammer Mumbai Indians by nine wickets in Jaipur on April 22, 2024. Yashasvi Jaiswal hit a scintillating century, and Sandeep Sharma took a sensational five-wicket haul to blow away the five-time champions.

After winning the toss, MI opted to bat but were rocked early by Trent Boult and Sandeep Sharma and were reduced to 20/3 within four overs.

Sandeep returned with amazing figures of 4-0-18-5 as he removed key players like Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Tim David, and Gerald Coetzee, ensuring MI couldn't recover despite a 99-run stand between Tilak Varma (65 off 45) and Nehal Wadhera (49 off 24).

Set a target of 180, the Rajasthan Royals started off the chase brilliantly with Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler playing good cricket. Jaiswal slammed a remarkable 104* off 60 balls, including 9 fours and 7 sixes. He stitched together a 74-run stand with Jos Buttler (35 off 25) and then an unbeaten 109-run partnership with Sanju Samson (38* off 28) to seal the win with 8 balls remaining.