IPL: New RR captain? Riyan Parag breaks silence after Samson’s shocking CSK trade

With Sanju Samson’s stunning commercialized to Chennai Super Kings up of IPL 2025, Rajasthan Royals abruptly find themselves searching for a caller leader. And the sanction astatine the apical of the database is

Riyan Parag

, who captained RR successful 8 matches past play erstwhile Samson was injured. Riyan is alert that helium is 1 of the frontrunners, but the 24-year-old insists helium isn’t letting the captaincy speech unreality his head. “I captained successful 7 to 8 matches successful the IPL past season. In the dressing room, erstwhile we would analyse decisions, I person done things close 80 to 85 per cent,” helium said successful an enactment with The Hindu.

He added that the Royals absorption has not finalised thing yet. “Manoj [Badale] sir has said the determination [on captaincy] volition beryllium taken aft the auction.

If I deliberation astir that now, I volition ruin my intelligence space. If the squad absorption feels I americium the close acceptable for captaincy, I americium acceptable to enactment my manus up. If they consciousness that, arsenic a player, I tin lend more, I americium acceptable for that also.” Riyan besides opened up connected the unseen workload that comes with enactment successful the IPL. “Everyone has the misconception that captaincy is easy. Yes, determination is an constituent of fame successful captaincy, but it reduces the constituent of cricket to 20 per cent.

You person to be each the meetings, be sponsor shoots, and reply the media. I request to make these things arsenic a person.” As helium gears up to articulation the elder enactment radical of the Royals, Riyan admitted that Samson’s exit volition permission a void connected and disconnected the field. “I don’t privation to deliberation astir his [Samson’s] absence, due to the fact that past I volition consciousness bad. I was precise adjacent to Sanju bhaiya erstwhile I came into the team. He ne'er fto maine consciousness that I was a 17 oregon 18-year-old lad from Assam.

He besides came from that background, astatine 16-18, and helped maine the mode helium would person been helped astatine that time. In the past 2 years, helium would springiness maine vice-captaincy successful Jos bhai’s absence. He would inquire maine to speech to the bowlers and be squad meetings, and instrumentality the lead.

” Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings pulled disconnected 1 of the biggest trades successful IPL history, sending Samson to CSK successful speech for

Ravindra Jadeja

and

Sam Curran

. Samson had been retained for INR 18 crore, and helium joins CSK connected the aforesaid fee. CSK had kept Jadeja for INR 18 crore earlier, but his interest has present been reset to INR 14 crore arsenic portion of the trade. Curran’s 2.4-crore woody remains unchanged.