“Sooner or later, you may should take me, proper? So that’s my perception, I will play for India,” Parag was quoted as saying by PTI. “I do not actually care when. [Even] once I was not scoring runs – I mentioned this in an [earlier] interview as nicely that I’m going to play for India.
India will journey to Zimbabwe after their T20 World Cup marketing campaign to play 5 T20Is, and Parag might be among the many gamers to discover a place within the facet. His focus, presently, is on getting there.
“Whether or not it is the following tour, whether or not it is a tour in six months, whether or not it is a tour in a single 12 months… I do not actually put my thought behind once I ought to play,” Parag mentioned. “That’s the selector’s job, that’s different individuals’s job.”
Parag got here into this IPL after failing to achieve 200 runs in any of the 5 earlier seasons. However his promotion from the lower-middle order to No.4, the spot wherein he bats for his state, Assam, offered the purpose of familiarity from the place he may elevate off.
“I am nonetheless coping with it. I obtained again dwelling and I used to be tremendous unhappy. The evening after the sport, it did not actually sink in. However then the day after the match and earlier than the ultimate, it was robust.”
Parag on RR’s loss within the Eliminator
“What you noticed this 12 months within the IPL is how I play home cricket,” Parag mentioned. “I take the onus as much as myself, I take the expectations, I take the burden upon myself to ship and that’s the reason I play the very best.
“I used to be not doing that within the IPL. I used to be taking method an excessive amount of strain, maintaining my expectations method too excessive and never doing the essential issues proper. That’s what I figured I had to do that 12 months; of taking part in at my favorite place as nicely, No 4. I used to be like, okay, ‘I do that at home cricket, this is identical factor I will do in IPL and let’s examine the way it goes’. It labored out completely.
“I had a whole lot of tough seasons, greater than good ones and I really feel having that fixed perception in your self, that you simply really belong on this degree, that you could really do issues that you simply [had] dreamt of, has been a continuing and that may keep all through.”
RR received eight out of their first 9 video games this season however then misplaced 4 video games in a row and completed their marketing campaign with a loss towards Sunrisers Hyderabad within the Eliminator, one which Parag acknowledges was disappointing.
“I am nonetheless coping with it. I obtained again dwelling and I used to be tremendous unhappy,” he mentioned. “The evening after the sport, it did not actually sink in. However then the day after the match and earlier than the ultimate, it was robust.
“It is robust, however then that is how cricket goes. There are world-class sides which can be taking part in the match, world-class gamers which can be taking part in the match [and you can’t always win].”
