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Suresh Raina

Suresh Raina
Personal information
Born	27 November 1986 (age 30) Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nickname	Mr.IPL , Sonu
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Right arm off break
Role	All-rounder
International information
National side	India
Test debut (cap 265)	26 July 2010 v Sri Lanka
Last Test	10 January 2015 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 159)	29 July 2005 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI	25 October 2015 v South Africa
ODI shirt no.	3 ( formerly 48 )
T20I debut (cap 8)	1 December 2006 v South Africa
Last T20I	1 February 2017 v England
T20I shirt no.	3 ( formerly 48)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2002/03–present	Uttar Pradesh
2008–2015	Chennai Super Kings(squad no. 3)
2016–present	Gujarat Lions (squad no. 3)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC Matches 18 223 63 96 Runs scored 768 5,568 1300 6,385 Batting average 16.48 35.46 20.63 14.03 100s/50s 1/7 5/36 1/3 14/42 Top score 120 116* 101 204* Balls bowled 1041 2,084 271 3,019 Wickets 13 36 12 37 Bowling average 16.38 19.13 17.16 10.40 5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a 0 Best bowling 2/1 3/34 2/6 3/31 Catches/stumpings 23/– 100/– 28/– 104/–

Born 27 November 1986) is an Indian professional cricketer. An aggressive left-handed middle-order batsman and an occasional off-spin bowler, he is considered as one of the best fielders in world cricket. He plays for Uttar Pradesh in all forms of domestic cricket. He is the captain of Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League, and was the vice-captain of the Chennai Super Kings. He has also captained the Indian cricket team and is the second-youngest player to captain India. He is the first of the three Indian batsmen to ever score a century in all three formats of international cricket.

Raina made his ODI debut in July 2005 against Sri Lanka at the age of 19. However, his Test debut came about five years later, in July 2010, against the same opposition. He scored a hundred on his Test debut. He was a part of the Indian squad that won the 2011 World Cup.

Contents

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• 1Early life
• 2Career
  • 2.12010 South Africa tour of India
  • 2.22010 tour of Sri Lanka
  • 2.32011 Cricket World Cup
  • 2.4Captaincy and 2011 West Indies tour
  • 2.52011 tour of England
  • 2.62012 Tour of Sri Lanka
  • 2.72012-13 England tour of India
  • 2.82014-15 tour of Australia
  • 2.92016
  • 2.102017
  • 2.11Captaincy
• 3Indian Premier League
  • 3.1Season by season at IPL
• 4Achievements
  • 4.1International arena
  • 4.2Domestic arena
• 5International centuries
  • 5.1Test centuries
  • 5.2One Day International centuries
  • 5.3Twenty20 International centuries
• 6Twenty20 centuries
• 7Personal life
• 8International awards
  • 8.1ODI cricket
    • 8.1.1Man of the series awards
    • 8.1.2Man of the match awards
  • 8.2T20I cricket
    • 8.2.1Man of the series awards
    • 8.2.2Man of the match awards
• 9References
• 10External links

Early life[edit]

He lives in Rajnagar, a town in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. He has three older brothers Dinesh Raina, Naresh Raina and Mukesh Raina and one elder sister Renu.^[1][2][3] An article by Suresh Raina was featured in the 2012 book Rahul Dravid: Timeless Steel.

Career[edit]

In 2000, Raina decided to play cricket and subsequently moved from his hometown Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh (near New Delhi) to Lucknow, to attend the Guru Gobind Singh Sports College, Lucknow.^[1]He rose to become the captain of the Uttar Pradesh U-16s and came to prominence amongst Indian selectors in 2002, when he was selected at the age of 15 and a half years for the U-19 tour to England, where he made a pair of half-centuries in the U-19 Test matches.^[4] He toured Sri Lanka later that year with the U-17 team. He made his Ranji Trophy debut for Uttar Pradesh against Assam in February 2003 at the age of 16, but did not play another match until the following season. In late 2003, he toured Pakistan for the U-19 Asian ODI Championship before being selected for the 2004 U-19 World Cup, where he scored three half-centuries, including a 90 scored off only 38 balls. He was then awarded a Border-Gavaskar scholarship to train at the Australian Cricket Academy and in early 2005, he made his first-class limited overs debut, and scored 645 runs that season at an average of 53.75.^[5]

In 2017, Raina did not manage to remain a regular fixture in the Indian team and was dropped from the Annual Retainership of the BCCI.^[6][7]

2010 South Africa tour of India[edit]

See also: List of centuries in Twenty20 International cricket

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 then played 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 batsmen in India. He is 3rd t20 captain in India

2010 tour of Sri Lanka[edit]

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 was in trouble at 4/241 when Raina came in to join Sachin Tendulkar. Raina went on to reach the 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[edit]

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'. ^[8]

Captaincy and 2011 West Indies tour[edit]

India toured West Indies after the World Cup with captain MS Dhoni rested and vice-captain Virender Sehwag injured. Gautam Gambhir was named the 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[edit]

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.^[9][10]

Raina at the SCG in January 2015.

Raina running through a poor form in the Test series especially in the last match made some impact in the 5 match-ODI series though the team was unable to secure a win at all. He top-scored in a rain-affected game at the Lord's scoring a commendable 84 from 75 balls.

2012 Tour of Sri Lanka[edit]

• 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 balls 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.^[11]
• 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 wickets 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 comeback after suffering from Cancer.^[12]

2012-13 England tour of India[edit]

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[edit]

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.

2016[edit]

Suresh Raina was not selected in India's first tour to USA, where they play West Indies for 2 T20Is.^[13] However, he made a reentry to the ODI team for a series against New Zealand.^[14] But he was rulled out due to Chikungunya .

2017[edit]

He was selected for a T20 series against England. In that series, he made a strong comeback. He scored a 63 in the 3rd T20 which helped the India to put up a great score on board

Captaincy[edit]

In 2011, India toured West Indies after the World Cup with captain MS Dhoni rested and vice-captain Virender Sehwag injured. Gautam Gambhir was named the captain for the One-dayers and T20's with Raina as his deputy. But due to injury, Gautam Gambhir was ruled out with Raina captaining with Harbhajan Singh as his deputy. India won the series, and his captaincy was highly appreciated by former west-Indian legends. He was again declared captain of the young Indian cricket team during 2014 Bangladesh series in 2014 while all the regular players of Indian cricket were rested. He led his team for 2-0 victory in the series. His personal performance was also splendid in the low scoring series as he captained the side very aggressively throughout the series. He was praised all over the world for his captaincy skills which he displayed during the 2nd ODI of this series. India was all out scoring 104 runs while batting first and Suresh Raina and his young team defended 104 runs and won the match by 54 runs. His captaincy was the deciding factor of this match along with Stuart Binny's bowling performance.

Indian Premier League[edit]

Raina was signed by the Chennai Super Kings for US$650,000 for the first three years of the tournament. Raina made significant contributions in the first edition of the tournament to compensate the Chennai Super Kings over the losses of key players like Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey and Jacob Oram. He played a vital Man of the Match performance in the last league fixture to give Chennai Super Kings the win they required to qualify for the semi-finals. Ultimately the Super Kings finished Again in 2010 IPL, Raina's consistent batting throughout the series won him applause and became the all-time run-getter of the league surpassing Australian legend Adam Gilchrist halfway down the tournament. He also captained the Super Kings for three matches in skipper Dhoni's absence and took some sensational catches in the field. He scored 520 runs in all, making him the third highest run getter of the series and the first for Chennai. He also was awarded "best fielder" by the BCCI ahead of the finals.^[15] He played a vital half-century which turned the final to Chennai's tide who ultimately went on to become the champions beating the Mumbai Indians.

At the end of the season, Raina set the record for most runs scored in the tournament, with 421, 434, and 520 and also taking the most no. of catches, two records that are still unbroken.^[16] Raina also hit the second maximum no. of sixes behind Adam Gilchrist in the three editions of the league. He was retained by the Super Kings for the 2011 Indian Premier League along with Murali Vijay, Albie Morkel and skipper MS Dhoni.

In the 2011 IPL too, Raina maintained his reputation as the leading run-scorer with 438 runs, again being the only player to cross 400 do so for all the seven seasons. His most crucial knock came against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Qualifier where he played a stunning innings to get the game back to Chennai's favor.

Despite struggling to find form in the initial stages of the 2012 IPL, Raina found form in the latter stages and finished the tournament as Chennai's leading run scorer, scoring 441 runs and on the course became the only player to score 400 runs in every IPL. He scored a blistering 73 in the final against Kolkata Knight Riders and added 116 with Mike Hussey, who scored a magnificent 86, to help his team put a big total on board. He became the first player in the history of IPL to cross the mark of 2000 IPL runs.

In 2013, IPL Raina scored 548 runs at a healthy average of 42.15 and strike rate of 150.13. At the start of the season he was struggling with his form but in the later half, he regained his form. He scored his maiden hundred in IPL against Kings XI Punjab. Raina scored an astonishing 99 not out off 52 deliveries against Sunrisers Hyderabad and helped Chennai Super Kings to score a mammoth 223 runs. This was Chennai Super Kings 3rd highest total. In the 1st Qualifier against MI he along with Hussey pounded MI bowlers to reach a score of 193 for 1.^[17]

On 30 May 2014 he made 87 runs out of 25 balls against Kings XI Punjab. He missed his fastest century of the cricketing history by just 13 runs due to a run out. In Champions League Twenty20 final he played a crucial knock scoring 109* off just 62 balls and made Chennai Super Kings win 2nd CLT20 title.

In 2016, Raina was signed for the Gujarat Lions after the suspension of CSK. He captained the team for the season, and remained consistent with batting, scoring 399 runs in 15 innings.^[18] Raina Had to leave for Netherlands in between of season 9 for birth of his first child thus making him miss his first ever match in nine seasons of IPL ^[19]

Season by season at IPL[edit]

IPL Batting Statistics of Suresh Raina
Year	Team	Inns	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	100	50	4s	6s
2008	Chennai Super Kings[20][21][22][23][24]	14	421	55*	38.27	142.22	0	3	35	18
2009		14	434	98	31.00	140.9	0	2	37	21
2010		16	520	83*	47.27	142.85	0	4	45	22
2011		16	438	73*	31.28	134.76	0	4	36	17
2012		18	441	77	25.94	135.69	0	1	36	19
2013		18	548	100*	42.15	150.13	1	4	50	18
2014		16	523	87	40.23	146.09	0	5	51	19
2015		17	374	62	24.93	122.62	0	2	31	16
2016	Gujarat Lions	15	399	75	33.93	138.90	0	2	31	8.[18]
2008–2015	Total	144	4098	100*	35.14	141.06	1	26	290	134

Achievements[edit]

International arena[edit]

• He is the third batsman in the world to hit a T20I century.
• Raina was the first ever batsman to score a T20I century when batting at number 3 position or lower as well as in World T20 history as he did it in the 2010 ICC World T20.^[25]
• He is the first Indian batsman to score centuries in all the three formats of the game.
• 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 is the First Indian player to score 6000 and more runs in Twenty20 career.

Domestic arena[edit]

• He is the Second Player to score 3000 runs in the IPL.
• He holds the record of most no.of catches (83) in the IPL.^[26]
• 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 consecutive ( 2008-2014) IPL seasons.
• He is the first and only Indian player to have scored century in IPL, CLT20 and T20I.
• He was the highest run scorer in the CLT20 on Oct 4,2014.(842 runs)^[27]
• He holds the record for scoring the most number of fifties in Champions League T20 history(6)^[28]
• He has never missed a single match for his team Chennai Super Kings.

International centuries

Test centuries

Suresh Raina's Test centuries
#	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result
1	120	1	Sri Lanka	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2010	Drawn[29]

One Day International centuries[edit]

Suresh Raina's One Day International centuries
#	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result
1	101	40	Hong Kong	Karachi, Pakistan	National Stadium	2008	Won[30]
2	116*	42	Bangladesh	Karachi, Pakistan	National Stadium	2008	Won[31]
3	106	87	Sri Lanka	Mirpur, Bangladesh	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium	2010	Lost[32]
4	100	193	England	Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom	SWALEC Stadium	2014	Won[33]
5	110*	213	Zimbabwe	Auckland, New Zealand	Eden Park	2015	Won[34]

Twenty20 International centuries[edit]

Suresh Raina's Twenty20 International centuries
#	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result
1	101	13	South Africa	Gros Islet, Saint Lucia	Beausejour Stadium	2010	Won[35]

Twenty20 centuries[edit]

Suresh Raina's Twenty20 League centuries
No.	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	For	Opponent	Venue	City	Year	Result
1	100*	53	7	6	Chennai Super Kings	Kings XI Punjab	MA Chidambaram Stadium	Chennai	2013	Won
2	109*	62	6	8	Chennai Super Kings	Kolkata Knight Riders	M Chinnaswamy Stadium	Bangalore	2014	Won

Personal life[edit]

Suresh Raina married Priyanka Chaudhary on April 3, 2015. Their daughter, Gracia Raina, was born on 14 May 2016 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Suresh Raina has also lent his voice in the Bollywood, singing the song Tu Mili Sab Mila from the film Meeruthiya Gangster.

International awards[edit]

ODI cricket[edit]

Man of the series awards[edit]

#	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	England in India	2012/13	277 Runs (5 Matches, 4×50) with avg. 92.33; 8-0-29-2 ; 1 ct.	India Won the series 3-2.[36]
2	India in England	2014	160 Runs (5 Matches, 1×100) with avg. 53.33 ; 25-0-117-4 ;3 ct.	India Won the series 3-1.[37]

Man of the match awards[edit]

S No	Opponent	Venue	Date	Match Performance	Result
1	England	Nahar Singh Stadium, Faridabad	31 March 2006	81* (89 balls, 8×4, 1×6)	India won by 4 wickets.[38]
2	Hong Kong	National Stadium, Karachi	25 June 2008	101 (68 balls, 7×4, 5×6)	India won by 256 runs.[39]
3	Pakistan	National Stadium, Karachi	25 June 2008	2 ct. ; 84 (69 balls, 10×4, 3x6)	India won by 6 wickets.[40]
4	Bangladesh	National Stadium, Karachi	28 June 2008	116* (107 balls, 11×4, 3x6); WK 1 St.	India won by 7 wickets.[41]
5	Sri Lanka	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	27 August 2007	76 (78 balls, 6×4, 1×6); 2 St.	India won by 46 runs.[42]
6	England	Lord's, London	11 September 2011	84 (75 balls, 7×4 2×6); 2-0-13-0	Tied (D/L).[43]
7	England	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	23 October 2011	2-0-15-0 ; 80 (62 balls, 12x4)	India won by 6 wickets.[44]
8	Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa StadiumColombo	28 July 2012	65* (45 balls, 6x4, 1x6);	India won by 5 wickets.[45]
9	England	PCA StadiumChandigarh	23 January 2013	2-0-10-0 ; 89* (79 balls, 9x4, 1x6)	India won by 5 wickets.[46]
10	England	Sophia Gardens, Cardiff	27 August 2014	100 (75 balls, 12x4, 3x6); 3-0-12-1	India won by 133 runs (D/L).[47]
11	Zimbabwe	Eden Park, Auckland	14 March 2015	110* (104 balls, 9x4, 4x6)	India won by 6 wickets.[48]
12	Bangladesh	Shere Bangla Stadium, Dhaka	24 June 2015	38 (21 balls, 3x4, 2x6); 8-0-45-3	India won by 77 runs.[49]

T20I cricket[edit]

Man of the series awards[edit]

#	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	India vs Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe	2010	Runs: 100 (61 balls: 9×4, 3x6), Ave – 100.00, SR – 163.93 Field: 2 ct.	India won the series 2-0.[50]

Man of the match awards[edit]

#	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	ICC World Twenty20 5th match (IND vs RSA) in St. Lucia	2010	101 (60 balls: 9x4, 5x6) ;	India won by 14 runs.[51]
2	India vs Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe	2010	1 ct. ; 72* (44 balls: 6x4, 2x6)	India won by 7 wickets.[52]