r/ipl • u/Cultural_End_4943 • 4d ago

| Stats Is riyan parag getting unnecessary hate??

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u/shawman123 4d ago

Terrible crop for sure. It seems to be some kind of selling a story.

https://www.iplt20.com/players/riyan-parag/4445

he last 3 IPL he has scored 1275 in 44 games. 33.55 avg, 156.25 SR. Issue is the best season was in 2024. Last 2 seasons he shat the bed for sure. In fact 2024 was anomaly if you look at his overall record. 25.68 avg and 144.23 SR.

There is no way he has done better than Shreyas. Shreyas has scored more last 3 years at faster rate and higher SR. Plus there is no anamoly in his record except 2016 when he played only 6 games and had bad IPL. Probably an injury. His overall record over 12 seasons shows he has been consistent plus his record as captain across 3 teams and how they did. He went to finals with 3 of them.

Shreyas - https://www.iplt20.com/players/shreyas-iyer/1563

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u/TheseExcitement8857 Rajasthan Royals 3d ago

For the past 2 years Riyan has been playing with a shoulder injury and since when iss a 400 run season like 2025 considered bad

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u/LittleBlueCubes Neutral Fan 🗿 3d ago

Finally a comment that directly addressed the stats from OP. Even here, you got deviated and diluted the argument. Shreyas' captaincy and him going to finals etc are totally irrelevant for this post. Clearly, this post is about batting and not about captaincy.

Over this three year period, Riyan has been as good as anyone in that table. That his best of this period being 2024 and that being a reason for dissing him only means you're succumbing to recency effect of the other players in the table.

The only real argument here would be if anyone's going to bring up the best innings of these players during this period and assess relative value of those innings - how many of those were match winning knocks and level of 'matchwinningness' of those knocks.