IPL playerIndia2019 to 2026
Riyan Parag
On scorecards: R Parag · Right-hand bat
Riyan Parag, a batter, has played eight IPL seasons, all of them with Rajasthan Royals. In eight seasons the title has not yet come.
The arrival
Riyan Parag arrived through the auction: Rajasthan Royals paid ₹20 lakh, the base price.
That first season brought 7 matches, 160 runs and 2 wickets at 8.64 an over. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2024, for Rajasthan Royals: 573 runs at an average of 52.1, striking at 149.2 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 150.6, with 4 fifties, and a highest score of 84 not out.
With the ball, the best season was 2025, for Rajasthan Royals: 3 wickets at 8.50 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 9.48, with best figures of 1 for 12.
One franchise
Riyan Parag has spent the whole IPL career with Rajasthan Royals, from 2019 to 2026. Rajasthan Royals went back to the auction to buy Riyan Parag again in 2022 for ₹3.80 cr.
Bat, ball and method
Across the career, Riyan Parag has struck at 144.3. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 145.6, so the scoring rate has tracked the league's almost exactly. 63% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 136 fours and 108 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 34.6% of the balls Riyan Parag faced were dot balls, a lower share than 63% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 12.1 balls, and a four every 9.6.
With the ball, 9 wickets in 319 deliveries, at 9.69 runs an over against a league rate of 8.85 for the same seasons: 0.84 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.
The fielding record: 49 catches and 3 run-outs.
At the auction
Riyan Parag has gone under the hammer twice. The highest price was ₹3.80 cr, paid by Rajasthan Royals in 2022, more than 12 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹20 lakh in 2019, ₹3.80 cr by 2022.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Riyan Parag has made 97 IPL appearances, the latest for Rajasthan Royals in 2026, and has won 2 player-of-the-match awards.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Rajasthan Royals | 7 | 160 | 50 | 32.0 | 127.0 | 1/0 | 2 | 8.64 | 1/10 | 5 | ||
| 2020 | Rajasthan Royals | 12 | 86 | 42* | 12.3 | 111.7 | 0/0 | 0 | 13.50 | - | 1 | ||
| 2021 | Rajasthan Royals | 11 | 93 | 25 | 11.6 | 112.0 | 0/0 | 1 | 11.84 | 1/7 | 6 | ||
| 2022 | Rajasthan Royals | 17 | 183 | 56* | 16.6 | 138.6 | 1/0 | 1 | 14.75 | 1/12 | 17 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Rajasthan Royals | 7 | 78 | 20 | 13.0 | 118.2 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| 2024 | Rajasthan Royals | 15 | 573 | 84* | 52.1 | 149.2 | 4/0 | 0 | 9.00 | - | 7 | 1 | |
| 2025 | Rajasthan Royals | 14 | 397 | 95 | 30.5 | 166.8 | 1/0 | 3 | 8.50 | 1/12 | 8 | ||
| 2026 | Rajasthan Royals | 14 | 309 | 90 | 23.8 | 157.7 | 2/0 | 2 | 9.50 | 1/5 | 4 |
Franchise journey
- Rajasthan Royals: 2019 to 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 34.6% |
| Balls per four | 9.6 |
| Balls per six | 12.1 |
| Dot balls bowled | 21.9% |
| Balls per wicket | 35.4 |
| Catches | 49 |
| Run-outs | 3 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet