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Riyan Parag believes that 215 runs could have been defended. He said that we knew that we had to get out the openers of Gujarat Titans early, but we could not do so and then the match went away from us. In the second qualifier held on Friday, Rajasthan Royals batted first and scored 214 runs, Vaibhav Suryavanshi played a brilliant inning of 96 runs. Shubman Gill’s century and Sai Sudarshan’s half-century had made the target easy for GT, the team won the match by 7 wickets.
Riyan Parag said, “I believed that the score of 215 could be defended, but I also felt that after the heavy roller, the wicket had become a little better for batting. In the first innings, the spinners were getting a little more grip and the shorter, slower balls were coming more late. A score of 230-240 would have been difficult to achieve. Given the way they bat, we knew that we had to get their openers out early. But we could not do this. After this the match went away from us.”
Joffra Archer, Nandre Berger, Brijesh Sharma were seen yearning for the wicket, the first wicket of Gujarat Titans fell in the form of Sai Sudarshan in the 13th over and that too due to the batsman’s own mistake. Actually the bat had left Sai’s hand, which hit the stump. Parag said that our team lacked experience, we tried many combinations and our players showed courage and made a great start to the long journey ahead.
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What did the captain say about Vaibhav Suryavanshi
Riyan Parag said about Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s performance, “I cannot explain in words the way he performed. Someone scores runs by hitting indiscriminate shots, but Vaibhav does not do this, he does not play indiscriminate shots. You cannot play an innings like today by playing lap shots. He understands the situation, I do not understand how he does it like this. I hope he will do the same for the country, will bring glory to the country and will keep playing for us and help us. Will get another trophy as well.”
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Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 776 runs in 16 innings in IPL 2026, he is currently the Orange Cap holder. During this period he also completed his 1000 IPL runs. He has become the batsman to touch this figure in the least number of matches. In this edition, he hit a total of 72 sixes, which is the highest number of sixes hit by a batsman in a season.