Kolkata: Young Riyan Parag is having a season to remember at the IPL 2024. The Rajasthan Royals batter has already amassed 318 runs this season already in seven matches at a strike-rate of 161.42. This includes three fifties as well. Now, with India’s T20 World Cup squad set to be announced soon, a report on Dainik Jagran suggests that Parag is now in the reckoning for a spot in the side for the marquee event. Parag is a top-order batter and this season he has hit a purple patch, but the question is – where would he fit in the India’s T20 squad?

Brought in as an Impact Substitute after an injury, Jos Buttler scored a sensational counter-attacking unbeaten century to top an equally mesmerizing maiden T20 hundred by Sunil Narine as Rajasthan Royals mounted the joint-highest successful chase to prevail over Kolkata Knight Riders by two wickets in Match 31.

Buttler, who had missed the previous match due to a niggle, hammered an unbeaten 107 off 60 balls — his second century on IPL 2024, blasting nine boundaries and six maximums as Rajasthan Royals raced to 224/8 in 20 overs after Narine blazed to a 49-ball hundred, his highest score in T20 cricket, that his maiden century, a 56-ball 109 that had helped KKR reach a massive 223/6. Besides hitting a mesmerizing century, Narine picked two wickets and also grabbed a catch for a sensational all-round display, but Buttler topped it all with his superb century.

Rajasthan Royals looked down and out at 121/6 in the 13th over, but Buttler found an ally in Rovman Powell, who blasted a 13-ball 26 triggering a counterattack as they launched an audacious chase. Powell was out but Buttler continued with his brilliant batting despite looking drained of energy and limping and jogging for runs.

(With IANS inputs)