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Raina, who declared his retirement from world cricket alongside Mahendra Singh Dhoni in 2020, was a Chennai Super Kings player until last year. This year, though, he wasn’t a member of the CSK squad and was instead involved in the commentary. Previously, the BCCI said that no Indian Premier Competition player might participate in any other international league. Perhaps an Indian cricketer linked with IPL will be prohibited from serving as a coach in other T20 tournaments.
Raina played 226 ODIs, 18 Tests, & 78 T20Is representing India throughout his 13-year international career. He was also given the privilege of temporarily captaining the squad. Raina scored 5615 runs in 226 ODIs & 1605 runs in 78 T20Is.
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Key takeaways
- The first Indian player to score a century in each of the 3 international cricket formats is Suresh Raina.
- Suresh Raina was born on November 27, 1986.
- India has been represented by Suresh Raina on the international, national, and IPL levels. On September 6, 2022, he did, however, announce his departure.
- The former Indian and CSK batsman, Suresh Raina, is known as Mr. IPL because of the significant impact he had on the league’s history.
All About Retirement
Suresh Raina declared his departure from all kinds of cricket on Tuesday.
“It has been a privilege to serve my nation and the state of Uttar Pradesh. I’d want to announce my departure from all kinds of cricket. I’d like to thank @ChennaiIPL,@BCCI, @ShuklaRajiv sir,@UPCACricket, and all of my fans for their unwavering faith in my abilities “He said on Twitter.
Suresh Raina, whose name was not chosen by the club in the Indian Premier League’s humongous auction earlier this year, may engage in other T20 events worldwide.
Raina had told the news every day to Dainik Jagran, “I want to carry on playing cricket for 2 – 3 years.” Several promising young players are rising through the levels of Uttar Pradesh cricket. The Uttar Pradesh Cricket Board has already issued me a No Objection Certificate. “I notified BCCI president Jay Shah & vice president Rajiv Shukla of my choice.”
Raina, who scored a century in his Test debut, is the first Indian to reach the mark for the first time in all three formats, and both of his innings occurred outside of India. Suresh Raina made 5528 runs in 205 IPL matches, including 39 half-centuries and one hundred at a scoring average of 136.76. Former Indian batter Suresh Raina will play in the Road Safety Championship, which commences on Sept 10.
About Suresh Raina
Suresh Raina was born on November 27, 1986, in Muradnagar, Uttar Pradesh, to Kashmiri Pandit parents from Rainawari, Srinagar District. Dinesh Raina is his older brother, in parallel to Suresh Raina. He finished his schooling at a residential school. Suresh Raina started out playing cricket in 2000 and relocated to Lucknow to join Guru Gobind Singh Sports College.
Trilokchand Raina, Suresh Raina’s father, worked as a military officer at an armaments plant. As members of the Hindu exodus from Kashmir in the 1990s, they left Rainawari in J&K and relocated to Uttar Pradesh. Suresh Raina received his training at the Guru Gobind Singh Sports College. On April 3, 2015, Raina wed Priyanka Chaudhary. Together, they are parents of two kids. As of August 5, 2022, Suresh Raina has been awarded a doctorate from Vels University.
Suresh Raina, a middle-order left-handed aggressive batsman, has a better-limited overs record than he has in tests. Throughout his career, opposing teams have profited from Raina’s penchant for short-pitched balls. As early as 2000, Suresh Raina decided to pursue his cricket career and enrolled at Guru Gobind Singh Sports College in Lucknow. He rose to fame as the U-16 squad captain for Uttar Pradesh.
Suresh Raina makes his Ranji Trophy breakthrough for Uttar Pradesh versus Assam in Feb 2003, but he didn’t take the field in another Ranji Trophy game until the following year. Before being chosen to represent India at the 2004 U-19 World Cup, Raina visited Pakistan for the 2003 ODI Asian Championship. There, he produced three half-centuries, which included an unbeaten 90 off just 38 deliveries. Suresh Raina began his first-class limited-overs debut in around 2005 while playing for the Australian Cricket Academy on something like a Border-Gavaskar scholarship, scoring 645 runs at an average of 53.75.
During his tenure on the field, he was among the top fielders for the cricket team of India. He played in the centre of the order throughout his career. Suresh Raina struck an unaltered 36 with tailenders in India’s 2011 Cricket World Cup semi-final, adding to the team’s 260 total.
During the Indian visit to Sri Lanka in 2012, he was already out for one at the end of the second ODI, but he rebounded in the third ODI, batting 45 balls to help India win by five strikeouts and receive the Men of the Match award.
Following vice-captain Virendra Sehwag’s injury and captain MS Dhoni having a sabbatical after the Asia Cup, India travelled to the West Indies in 2011. Raina was chosen to serve as Gambhir’s deputy while Gambhir was designated the ODI and T20 skipper. On August 15, 2020, Just a few hours after MS Dhoni announced his resignation from all kinds of international cricket, Suresh Raina followed suit.
Achievements of Suresh Raina
- He is the 1st Indian player to accumulate 6,000 and 8,000 runs in a T20 career.
- Suresh Raina is the first player in IPL history to reach 5,000 runs in cricket.
- In the Indian Premier League’s history, he has made the most catches (107)
- Suresh Raina currently owns the IPL record for scoring the most runs during a power play.
- Suresh Raina became the second player to smash 100 sixes during the IPL season after Chris Gayle.
