Biography of Cricketer Suresh Raina
Suresh Raina, Former Indian Cricketer: Attacking left-handed batsman who went for big hits with impunity and cleared the pitch with panache when he was at the top of his game, he was also an electric defender all round. However, all this was tempered by an uncertain system against the smaller ball, which was used mercilessly in Test cricket and also meant that Raina’s research work did not reach the level of his limited career.
Despite a promising start. Raina was popular at the under-19 level, his scores and double hundreds took him to the Indian junior team and beyond in the Indian colours. It took five years for Raina to cement his place as India’s all-time all-rounder, going from a professional batsman who played 98 ODIs to becoming the 12th Indian to test one hundred years of its origin.
Suresh Raina Childhood and early life
Suresh Raina was born on November 27, 1986 and he is thirty-four years old now. He is from Muradnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India, and lives in Rajnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Also, his zodiac sign is Sagittarius and his full name is Suresh Kumar Raina.
Talking about his family, Suresh hails from a Pandit Kashmiri family from Rainawari, Srinagar. Similarly, he came from a military family which helped him to maintain a disciplined life.
Also, Suresh has three elder brothers namely Dinesh, Mukesh and Naresh Raina. Similarly, he also has an elder sister named Renu Raina. Their parents are father Tirlokchand and mother Parvesh Raina. At the age of 14, Suresh decided to play cricket and moved to Specialist Government Sports College.
Raina Personal life
Suresh Raina’s father’s name is Trilokchand Raina and his mother’s name is Parvesh Raina. His father served in the Indian Army; he is a military officer in a law firm. Raina’s family belongs to ‘Rainawari’ in Jammu and Kashmir.
However, Raina’s family settled in Muradnagar Town, Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh in the late 1990s after the exodus of Hindus from Kashmir. Suresh Raina also has two siblings, a sister and an elder brother. His elder brother, Dinesh Raina, is serving in the Indian Army. Suresh Raina is a teacher of Guru Gobind Singh Sports College, 1998, Lucknow.
Thieves attacked Raina’s uncle, Ashok Kumar, while robbing their house in Punjab. Unfortunately, the attack was fatal, resulting in the death of his uncle.
So, as soon as that happened, he retired from the 2020 Indian Premier League and decided to be with his family in this difficult time. Raina is happily married to Priyanka since April 3, 2015 and is blessed with a daughter and a son.
Domestic Cricket career of Suresh Raina
Suresh Raina in 2000 decided to play cricket and started attending Guru Gobind Singh Sports College, Lucknow. He became the captain of Uttar Pradesh U-16. In February 2003, Suresh Raina made his Ranji Trophy debut for Uttar Pradesh against Assam but did not play again until the following season.
In late 2003, Raina traveled to Pakistan for the Asian U-19 ODI Championship before being selected for the 2004 U-19 World Cup, where he scored three half-centuries, including 90 off just 38 balls. Suresh Raina was later awarded the Border-Gavaskar Scholarship to train at the Australian Cricket Academy and in early 2005 made his first-class debut and scored 645 runs during that season at an average of 53.75.
International Carrer
Suresh Raina is hailed as the best defender in the Indian team. He is a central player. In the 2011 Cricket World Cup, he scored 36 runs and took India to 260 runs.
Suresh Raina, on India’s tour of England, scored only half-century (50 runs), and on top of that he showed poor performance by scoring only 27 runs while playing seven. As all opponents know, his weakness for small balls, they used it, making him struggle during the process. In the final test of the tournament, he managed to bowl 29 balls without any score, which allowed him to break the record for the longest match without any score. He was dismissed by playing as many as 29 balls in this final Test, the longest in India’s Test history.
In India’s tour to Sri Lanka in 2012, in the third ODI, he scored 65 runs from 45 balls which helped India win by five wickets in hand. Also, due to his excellent performance, he also won the player’s award. Apart from this performance in the third ODI, he showed poor consistency scoring just one point per game. Yuvraj Singh, who made a comeback in England’s tour of India after recovering from cancer, has taken Raina’s place in the Indian national team.
He was named the 12th man in the T20 World Cup “Team of the Tournament” by the International Cricket Council 2012. He scored a hundred against England during England’s tour of India in 2012-13 at Cardiff. In this match, his performance was so impressive that he was voted one of the best ODI batsmen of the year by ESPNCricinfo. Suresh Raina was not selected for the Indian team against the West Indies, where the team played two Twenty20 International matches. He returned to the ODI squad for the match against New Zealand. He was later fired from his job due to his health problems.
In October, Suresh Raina was selected in the India C squad for the 2018 Deodhar Trophy. In 2011, the Indian team visited the West Indies after the World Cup. At that time, Gautham Gambhir was the captain since Dhoni was rested and Virender Sehwag was injured. So, Gautam Gambhir became captain with Raina as his assistant for ODI and T20, but unfortunately even Gambhir stopped due to injury, and Raina became captain with Harbhajan as his assistant .
Then in 2014, in the series against Bangladesh, he led the team to a 2-0 victory. However, in the second match of the same series, India were bowled out for one hundred and five runs in batting at the start. Despite that, Raina won the team by 47 runs. There are details about Raina’s retirement, and his retirement was announced on August 15, 2020, immediately after Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s retirement.
Carrer in Indian Premier League (IPL)
Suresh Raina was one of the first signings of Chennai Super Kings, he was paid $5 million for the first three years of the league. He has always been a strong player; he put the Indian team through the chaos on the pitch with a fantastic support.
He also became the first player in the world to score 100 runs in the Indian Premier League and the first player to score 100 in a single series. Since being banned from Chennai Super Kings for two years, Raina has signed up for a new IPL team, Gujrat Lions and is currently the captain of the team. His history and IPL stats speak for themselves
Accomplishment
- Suresh Raina is the only Indian batsman to score a century in three formats of Cricket- Twenty20, One Day International (ODI) and Test Match.
- The left-arm spinner, Suresh Raina is the first player to score 3000 runs in the IPL.
- He is the third batsman in the world to hit a T20I century. Star batsman Suresh Raina is the first Indian player to score 6000+ runs in his Twenty20 career.
- On his Test debut, Raina scored a century. A formidable off-spinner, Suresh Raina holds the record for most catches (52) in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
- Raina is the second player in the world and the first Indian player to hit 100 sixes in the IPL.
