Known as India's finest T20 specialist, Suresh Raina has burst into the international scene as a teenage prodigy during the Greg Chappell era. His power, class and elegance were a hallmark of the Uttar Pradesh batsman's status in the international scene since his ODI debut in 2005. Raina's form dipped over the years and since then his call-up to the national team has been more of a switch. The batsman has been chipping in with his play whenever the opportunity was provided has his role became more of a guy who helps the team project a score. Raina's form dropped after the UP batsman was unable to clear the yo-yo test which left him quite disappointed but made him prove a point failure. After clearing the test, Raina burst back into the scene for India's tour of South Africa in 2018 and since then the Indian fans have been witnessing classic Raina back to his beast form.
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Raina also gave his take on Dinesh Karthik's inclusion in the playing XI and the decision of naming Shami as Bumrah's replacement.
The tournament will begin on 10th of September in Kanpur where India Legends will lock horns with the South African legends.
Raina has scored 5528 runs which include one century and 39 half-centuries in his 12-year-long IPL journey.
As soon as Suresh Raina's retirement tweet surfaced on the internet, fans flooded Twitter with 'will miss you' posts. Many Raina fans even urged him to take back his decision while others said that they will wait to see him in overseas T20 leagues.
Suresh Raina has announced his retirement from all formats of the game and has tweeted about it on his official social media handle
The second ODI at the legendary Lord's stadium today witnessed a reunion of a few Indian greats including the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, Suresh Raina, and MS Dhoni. Each one of these have their history on the ground.
While the social media was abuzz about Raina being ignored and it probably meant an end to the IPL legend's run in the league, CSK CEO K S Viswanathan said team combination and form meant the left-handed UP batter could not fit into the team.
Apart from Raina, Australia batters Steve Smith and Aaron Finch, and New Zealand opener Martin Guptill were among the big names who went unsold at the auction.
The former India cricketer will remain unsold at the IPL 2022 mega auction as he was not included in the final list of the second acceleration round (last list of unsold players).
Raina's teammates including Harbhajan Singh offered their condolences on social media.
Australian cricketer David Warner shared a hilarious video of himself, featured as Allu Arjun from Pushpa. Starring Arjun and Rashmika Mandanna in the lead roles, Sukumar's directorial 'Pushpa: The Rise' chronicles the red sanders heist in the hills of Andhra and depicts the convoluted nexus that unfurls in the course of the narrative of a man who is taken by avarice.
Suresh Raina danced to the Hindi version of Pushpa's song Srivalli. The hit number is from Allu Arjun's latest release. He posted a video clip of him dancing to the number on Instagram and said: "I couldn't stop but try this myself."
Kohli will step down as the India T20 skipper after the T20 World Cup, though he has said that he would continue to lead the country in Tests and One-day Internationals.
Robin Uthappa, who came in place of the injured Suresh Raina in the previous game against Delhi Capitals, might be given another chance in CSK's last game of the league stage against PBKS.
The three-time IPL champions have 18 points on the back of nine wins from 11 matches. However, Suresh Raina's batting form is a concern for Super Kings.
Chennai Super Kings shared pictures of franchise's players, including captain MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina at the airport.
Raina felt Kohli should be given more time as captain as he has proven his proficiency as captain with his performance.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and his Chennai Super Kings teammate Suresh Raina were among the first to wish MS Dhoni on his 40th birthday
Raina was among the players who Chappell seemed to have trusted. He, in fact, made his ODI debut on Chappell's first series as in-charge.
Raina opened up on the moment CSK bought him in the first-ever auction of the tournament.
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