Suresh Raina

Suresh Raina
Personal information
Born 27 November 1986
Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nickname Sonu
Height 5 ft 8[1] in (1.73 m)
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Right arm off break
Role Allrounder
Relations Priyanka Chaudhary (wife) (m.2015)
Website
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) 30 July 2005 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 26 March 2015 v Australia
ODI shirt no. 3
T20I debut (cap 8) 1 December 2006 v South Africa
Last T20I 7 September 2014 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2002/03–present Uttar Pradesh
2008–present Chennai Super Kings
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 18 213 44 87
Runs scored 768 5,381 947 5,796
Batting average 26.48 36.16 32.65 43.25
100s/50s 1/7 5/35 1/3 13/37
Top score 120 116* 101 204*
Balls bowled 1041 1,802 174 2,905
Wickets 13 31 6 36
Bowling average 46.38 49.29 39.16 40.19
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 n/a 0
Best bowling 2/1 3/34 2/49 3/31
Catches/stumpings 23/– 96/– 20/– 96/–
Source: ESPN Cricinfo, 14 March 2015

Suresh Raina ( pronunciation ; born 27 November 1986) is an Indian cricketer. He is an attacking 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 the only Indian to score a century in all three formats of international cricket.

Raina made his ODI debut in 2006 against Sri Lanka at the age of 20. However, his Test debut came only five years later, in 2010, against the same opposition. He scored a hundred on his Test debut.He was a part of India's World Cup winning team of 2011.

Early and personal life

Suresh's father Trilok Chand is a retired military officer and mother Parvesh Raina.[2] He comes from a Kashmiri Pandit family.[3] The Raina family moved in the 1980s from the Rainawari area of Srinagar, Kashmir, to Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.[4] He lives in Rajnagar, a town in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. He has 3 older brothers Dinesh Raina, Naresh Raina and Mukesh Raina and 1 elder sister Renu.[2][5][6]An article by Suresh Raina was featured in the 2012 book Rahul Dravid: Timeless Steel. Suresh Raina married Priyanka Chaudhary[7] on April 3rd 2015.[8][9]

Career

Raina decided to play cricket in 2000, and moved from his city Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh (near New Delhi) to Lucknow, to attend the specialist government Sports College.[2] 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.[10] 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.[11] He was selected to participate in the Challenger Series in early 2005,[12] and after injury to Sachin Tendulkar and suspension to captain Sourav Ganguly, Raina was selected for the Indian Oil Cup 2005 in Sri Lanka.[13]

2010 South Africa tour of India

In 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 captained the Indian team for the Tri-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.

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 a century on debut 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

He 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'. [14]

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

He 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.[15][16]

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

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.

Performance at 2015 World Cup

Runs Balls faced 4s 6s Opposition Ground
74 56 5 3  Pakistan Adelaide
6 3 1  South Africa Melbourne
Did Not Bat  United Arab Emirates Perth
22 25 2 0  West Indies Perth
Did Not Bat  Ireland Hamilton
110 104 9 4  Zimbabwe Auckland
65 55 10 1  Bangladesh Melbourne

[19]

Captaincy

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 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 allout 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

Raina was signed by the Chennai Super Kings for US$5 million 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 in 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.[20] 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.[21] 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 four 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. He is recognized as an outstanding player for Chennai Super Kings through his performance. He has yet to miss a match for his team Chennai Super Kings and is the only player to do so.[22]

In Champions League Twenty20 final he playes a crucial knock scoring 109* off just 62 balls and made Chennai Super Kings win 2nd CLT20 title.

Season by season at IPL

IPL Batting Statistics of Suresh Raina
Year Team Inns Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 4s 6s
2008 Chennai Super Kings[23][24][25][26][27] 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
<~2008–2014 Total~> 112 3325 100* 35.14 141.06 1 23 290 134

On 30 May 2014 he made 87 runs out of 25 balls against Kings XI Punjab. He missed out the fastest century of the cricketing history by just 13 runs due to a run out.

Achievements

International Centuries

Test Centuries

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

One Day International Centuries

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

Twenty20 International Centuries

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

Twenty20 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

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Suresh Raina excited to play in his mother-land". Lahore times. 26 Jan 2013.
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  4. ↑ "Omar wants Raina to play for J&K, offers him plot". India express.com. 5 April 2011.
  5. ↑ "Your love for Cricket: Suresh Raina". cricketpapa.blogspot.in. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
  6. ↑ Anushka, Suresh Raina: The latest link-up - Times Of India. Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com (2012-03-21). Retrieved on 2013-12-23.
  7. ↑ "Suresh Raina to tie the knot with childhood friend Priyanka on April 3" (Mid-Day.com). Mid Day. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Delhi wedding for Raina in gap between World Cup and IPL". Itishree Misra. The Times of India. 16 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
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  13. ↑ "Cricinfo - Dravid to lead, Ganguly provisionally selected". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  14. ↑ "2nd Semi FInal India v Pakistan world cup 2011". Cricinfo.
  15. ↑ Miller, Andrew (20 August 2011). "Sreesanth's steely stare, Raina's unwanted record". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2011-08-30.
  16. ↑ "Records / Pataudi Trophy, 2011 / Most runs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2011-08-30.
  17. ↑ "Ind vs SL: Gambhir, Raina guide India to 5-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in 3rd ODI". 29 July 2012.
  18. ↑ "Yuvraj and Harbhajan named in Test squad". 5 November 2012.
  19. ↑ "career statistics at world cup". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2011-08-30.
  20. ↑ "Indian Premier League | IPL Awards". Iplt20.com. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
  21. ↑
  22. ↑ "CSK name Dhoni, Raina, Ashwin, Jadeja, Bravo as five retained players". IBN Live. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
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