IPL 2024 | "Extreme talent": Bond labels Parag after match-winning knock vs MI

After looking at Riyan Parags heroics in the IPL 2024 match against Mumbai Indians Rajasthan Royals assistant coach Shane Bond described the batsman as extreme talent Bond also mentioned that Parag reminds him of young Suryakumar Yadav at Mumbai IndiansThe 22yearold Parag has brought his form from domestic cricket to IPL 2024 So far in three victories for RR Parag scored two matchwinning fiftiesHis latest heroics came against struggling Mumbai Indians where he accumuluated 54 runs off 39 balls during the runchase of 126 runs His knock was laced with 5 fours and 3 sixesIn postmatch press conference Shane Bond who is RR bowling coach as well said He Parag sort of reminds me a little bit of Surya Suryakumar Yadav who came to Mumbai a few years ago He looks like that he has got extreme talent He has just matured as a cricketer even though he is only 22Bond played a crucial role in developing bowling talents at MI in his nineyear stint with the Mumbaibased franchise from 2015 onwards before shifting base to Jaipur this yearAlso Read IN PHOTOS OTD Team India ended the 28yearlong waitThe trade made with Devdutt Padikkal was to promote Riyan up the batting order said BondHe Parag has had an outstanding domestic season obviously batting up the order The trade we made with Devdutt Padikkal bringing Avesh Khan in that was to put Riyan up into a position which was probably better suited the former New Zealand fast bowler addedSuryakumar Yadav who is currently recovering from his surgery joined MI in 2011 He also spent four years at Kolkata Knight Riders from 2014 to 2017 and was later brought back to Mumbai in 2018 He is also the number one T20I batsman in the world rankingsBond while speaking during the press conference also mentioned that Parag has had to play the role of a finisher in the IPL at a young age whereas other teams have experienced international players in that roleRiyan started so young you forget that he was 17 or something playing in one of the toughest spots in a batting lineup of No 6 You look at the characters who finish games around the IPL they are generally pretty experienced guys he saidThe Tim Davids the Dave Millers these are high quality players who play international cricket Riyan has been tasked with that for a number of years He is still a very young man but he has got this wealth of experience behind him nowAlso Read IN PHOTOS IPL 2024 RCB vs LSG Heres all you need to knowWe are getting the best of him The investment that RR have made of him its starting to reap the rewards It is pretty exciting what he could offer for the rest of the season for usBond also felt selfless Yuzvendra Chahal who produced a measly spell of 40113 to set up Rajasthans win on Monday could be back in India reckoning if he continues to deliverThe competition is pretty tough so one of the real challenges for any bowler coming into this tournament is to forget that there is a World Cup and you start bowling to get into a World Cup team he saidIf your team is successful you are in a winning team selections and rewards come from that That has more of been our focus to forget about all that other noise from the outside and just work really hard for each otherIf we do that I have got no doubt people are going to start talking like you are now about Chahal and whether he will feature in a World Cup or not He is bowling beautifully and if he keeps doing that then we have got a massive chance in this tournament he addedBond said having knowledge about opposition players also helps in making strategies for his current team When you have obviously spent so much time with certain players watched them every day and talked to them about their game and the way that they see the game that definitely helps he saidIt was quite fun being on the other side of the team A couple of dismissals you get a lot of satisfaction from that MI pacer Akash Madhwal said a fresh pitch at the Wankhede Stadium assisted bowlers in the first game but maintaining tight lines was equally crucialWe had to get our basics right and had to bowl in the line of the stumps The pitch had some help for the fast bowlers said Madhwal who returned 320With PTI Inputs