Riyan Parag targets an international debut in the near future after a memorable efficiency in the current IPL 2024. The younger batting all-rounder produced his career-best efficiency with Rajasthan Royals however failed to make India’s squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024.
The 22-year-old Riyan performed a vital position in main Sanju Samson’s Royals to Qualifier 2 in the seventeenth version of the event. Parag’s identify emerged in talks forward of the squad choice for the World Cup however the Guwahati-born batter had to look forward to his probability.
Parag will not be a stranger to Indian cricket having made headlines together with his performances in U19 World Cup 2018 and in home tournaments for Assam. He loved his finest season in the IPL by scoring 573 runs at a strike fee of nearly 150.
Speaking at a sporting occasion in Mumbai, Parag talked about his perception in making India debut in the near future. He said that he’ll make his debut in the future for certain and it is solely a matter of time.Â
“At some point, you’ll have to take me, right? So that is my belief, I’m going to play for India,” Riyan Parag informed PTI. “I do not actually care when. That is me believing in myself. That will not be me being smug. That is what my plan was with my dad (former Railways and Assam participant Parag Das), once I began enjoying cricket once I was like 10-years-old. We (a joint mission) have been going to play for India regardless of something.
“Whether it’s the next tour, whether it’s a tour in six months, whether it’s a tour in one year. I don’t really put my thought behind when I should play. That is the selector’s job, that is other people’s job.”
Parag is anticipated to make his India debut together with Abhishek Sharma throughout India’s subsequent bilateral T20I collection in opposition to Zimbabwe after the T20 World Cup in the USA and West Indies.