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From being in cruise control for most part to losing the way in the end, Rajasthan Royals skipper Riyan Parag took all the blame on himself for the narrow two-run defeat to Lucknow Super Giants in an IPL match here on Saturday. Chasing 181-run target, victory looked a foregone conclusion when openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and teenager Vaibhav Suryavanshi blasted off like a rocket, stitching together an 85-run partnership in the ninth over.
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Things were going great for the hosts with Jaiswal striking a superb 74 off 52 deliveries and an equally belligerent Parag smashing 39 off 26 balls. But both were dismissed by LSG pacer Avesh Khan in the 18th over, more on account of the poor selection of shots. RR could not take the shock of losing two well-set batters and finally fell two runs short.
“Really hard to process all the emotions. Don’t know what we did wrong. We were in the game till the 18th or 19th over. I blame myself. I should have finished that game in the 19th over. We have to put up a game collectively,” said Parag, who led the team on Saturday due to a side strain to regular skipper Sanju Samson.
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