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Riyan Parag<\/a> has been named* the next Rajasthan Royals<\/a> (RR) captain ahead of IPL 2026<\/a>. Parag’s promotion comes after the departure of Sanju Samson to Chennai Super Kings<\/a> (CSK), a trade that came in exchange for two allrounders, Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran.<\/p>\n Parag, 24, has led RR before. He did it last year, when Samson missed eight games with injuries and Parag stepped in. Out of those eight matches<\/a>, RR won only two. Parag averaged a healthy 38.57 in those matches, ending that stint with a career-best 95 against Kolkata Knight Riders<\/a> (KKR) at Eden Gardens.<\/p>\n ESPNcricinfo has learnt Parag was among a few players with whom head coach Kumar Sangakkara had interviews with, before finalising him as the captain. This means RR will have a new captain and a new head coach after Rahul Dravid parted ways with the franchise after the 2025 season, when they finished second from bottom with just four wins from 14 games.<\/p>\n “The night before the [T20 World Cup] warm-up game, I played against USA I got a call from Manoj [Badale] and Sanga [Sangakkara] that said, ‘congratulations you are the captain.’ A lot of emotions and then straight to the matter, like next season, what do we need to change or do better so that we finish in a better place,” Parag said in a video uploaded on RR’s social handles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source africa.espn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Riyan Parag has been named* the next Rajasthan Royals (RR) captain ahead of IPL 2026. Parag’s promotion comes after the departure of Sanju Samson to Chennai Super Kings (CSK), a trade that came in exchange for two allrounders, Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran. Parag, 24, has led RR before. He did it last year, when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2279935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Riyan-Parag-set-to-be-named-Rajasthan-Royals-new-captain.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280448,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280447\/revisions\/2280448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}