India, March 30 -- It has been a rough start to life for Riyan Parag in his brief captaincy stint for Rajasthan Royals, dropping to losses in the first two games while stepping in for Sanju Samson. Nevertheless, RR coach Rahul Dravid had bright words for Parag, a player he has known from his U-19 days and now a central figure in this IPL setup.

"I think he's adapted really well," Dravid said in the press conference ahead of RR's next match against CSK. "It's not easy to captain when [SRH] is scoring 280 runs on a flat wicket. The first game is probably a tough game to be a captain. But I think the calmness that he showed and the fact that it didn't seem like our team was panicking was really good."

RR conceded 286 against SRH in their s...