Suresh Raina

Nick Name

: N/A

Born

:27 Nov,1986

Age

:32 years, 9 months

Location

:Muradnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

Debut On

:2000

Website

: http://www.suresh-raina.in/

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About Suresh Raina

Suresh Raina is an Indian professional cricketer. A left-handed middle-order batsman and an occasional off-spin bowler; he plays for Uttar Pradesh in all forms of domestic cricket and is the vice-captain of Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League. He has also captained the Indian cricket team and is the second youngest player to captain India. He is one of two Indian batsmen to ever score a century in all three formats of international cricket.

Career Summary:

2010 South Africa tour of India:

During South Africa's tour to India in 2010, Raina was called in the squad for the second test, but was not selected in the playing XI. He-series against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe as all the other first-choice players were rested from the tournament. India lost the first match under his captaincy against Zimbabwe by six wickets, but won the next match against Sri Lanka. Suresh Raina also captained the Indian Cricket team for the T-20 series against Zimbabwe in June 2010 and India won the 2 match series 2-0.He was the leading run scorer in this series. Virat Kohli and R Ashwin made their T-20 debuts in Raina's captaincy.He is one of the stylish batsman in India.He is 3rd t20 captain in India

2010 tour of Sri Lanka:

Raina was then brought into the Test squad for the tour of Sri Lanka in July and August 2010. He made his debut in the Second Test after Yuvraj Singh was ill. Sri Lanka made 4/642 declared and India were in trouble at 4/241 when Raina came in to join Sachin Tendulkar. Raina went on to reach maiden century on debut becoming few of Indian players to do so as the pair put on a double century partnership. Yuvraj recovered in time for the Third Test but the selectors opted to retain Raina. However, due to poor form throughout 2010 (apart from a half century against Australia at Mohali) and a failure to make any impact on the Centurion Test which South Africa won by an innings, he was dropped in favour of rookie Cheteshwar Pujara for the remainder of the series, in which India battled back to a 1–1 draw.

2011 Cricket World Cup:

Raina was on the bench through the first half of the 2011 Cricket World Cup as captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni instead went with the in-form Yusuf Pathan. This remained so until the group game against West Indies, which Raina played in place of an injured Virender Sehwag. Against defending champions Australia in the quarter-final, Dhoni made a strategic change, omitting Yusuf Pathan in favour of Raina. Raina responded by assisting Yuvraj Singh in a successful run chase through high pressure, making 34 from 28 balls to carry India to victory. In the semi-final against Pakistan, he batted with tailenders to score an unbeaten 36, a significant contribution to India's final tally of 260. He also took Younis Khan's catch off of Yuvraj's bowling. Suresh Raina played some crucial knocks in quarter-final and semi-final of the World Cup, which helped India to win the 2011 ICC Cricket worldcup. Gary Kirsten, the then coach of India, said 'Raina won the World Cup for us with some crucial knocks'.

Captaincy and 2011 West Indies tour:

India toured West Indies after the World Cup with captain MS Dhoni rested and vice captain Virender Sehwag injured. Gautam Gambhir was named captain for the One dayers and T20's with Raina as his deputy. But due to injury Gambhir was ruled out, with Raina captaining with Harbhajan as his deputy. India won the series, but Raina averaged just 16.4. In the Test matches he scored 232 runs at the average of 46.4 scoring crucial fifties in each Test. His captaincy was highly appreciated by former west-Indian legends.

2011 tour of England:

Raina was selected for the England tour in July. There was a lot of debate on who should play the first Test at Lord's, Yuvraj or Raina. But a century in a practice match against Somerset sealed a place for him in the playing eleven. Apart from a half-century in the first Test at Lord's, Raina managed just 27 runs from seven innings. He struggled against short bowling and in the final Test was out for a 29-ball duck, the longest in India's Test history.

2012 Tour of Sri Lanka:

In the first ODI, Raina played an attacking 45 ball, 50-run knock to help India reach 314. They eventually won the match by 21 runs on 21 July 2012.
In the second ODI he was out for 1 but he came back stronger in the third ODI where he played a blistering 45 ball 65 to hand India a five wicket win and he eventually also won the man of the match award for his performance. Gambhir too scored a century in that match.
He continued his good form in the 4th ODI as he scored his 3rd half-century of the series and helped India beat Sri Lanka by 6 wicktes by scoring 58*.and mujeeb helped him
He was out for a duck in the last ODI.
After the Tour of Sri Lanka, When England team came to India, he was dropped and gave away his spot to Yuvraj Singh, Who made a come back after suffering from Cancer.

2012-13 England tour of India:

Raina registered strong performances in this series, which India won 3-2. He scored 277 runs at an average of 92.33 with four consecutive half centuries but only two of them in a winning cause. He became 13th Indian batsman to cross 4000 international runs, in his 159th ODI and got his first Man of the Series award in this format. At the end of the series, he broke into the ICC top 10 ranked batsmen for the first time in his career.

2014-15 tour of Australia:

Suresh has been included into India's test squad after almost two years. Raina was selected in the final Test match at Sydney, under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. Later on, he announced his return to form in the Tri-Series with a flamboyant 51 against Australia.

Suresh Raina Achievements

Achievements:

Bold are International Records.

International arena:

He is one of the two batsmen from India to score century in all formats of cricket.
He was the second youngest captain of the Indian Cricket team at the early age of 23 and the twelfth youngest player to captain aside the world cricket team.
He was the twelfth Indian player to score test century on debut.
He is the only Indian to score centuries in both T20I and ODI World Cup.
He was the third batsman in the world to hit a T20I century.

Domestic arena:

He is the First Player to score 3000 runs in the IPL.
He holds the record of most no.of catches (52) in the IPL.
He was the second world and first Indian player to hit 100 sixes in the IPL.
He is the first and only player to have scored over 400 runs in 7 IPL seasons.
He is the first and only Indian player to have scored century in IPL, CLT20 and T20I.
He had a highest strike rate in the IPL history.
He was the highest run scorer in the CLT20 on Oct 4,2014.
He has never missed a single match for his team Chennai Super Kings.