Suresh Raina Biography, Career and Awards

 

Suresh Raina Biography, Cricket Career, and Records

Suresh Raina is an Indian professional cricketer who has proved himself to be an invaluable player in limited formats of the game. He was a member of the Indian Premier League (IPL) team Gujarat Lions. Currently, he plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL and has played for Chennai Super Kings for the first eight seasons. Highest score in the history of the competition. As a result, he is often called upon to strengthen the Indian T20 team, even if he is out of ODIs or Test teams. Suresh Raina has often proved invaluable as a middle-order batsman, an agile fielder, and occasional bowler and contributed significantly to India's second World Cup win in 2011.

• Name  : Suresh Raina
• Birth Date :  27 November 1986
• Birth Place :  Ghaziabad
• Profession : Cricketer
• National Award: NOT YET
• Father Name : Trilokchand Raina
• Mother Name : Parveesh Raina
• Wife Name :  Priyanka Choudhary
• Daughter Name :  Garcia Raina

Suresh Raina Birth and Family

Suresh Raina was conceived on 27 November 1986 in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. His father was Trilok Chand, a retired military officer. Suresh Raina's father is a member of the Kashmiri Pandit community, originally from Rewari in Jammu and Kashmir, while his mother Parvesh Raina is from Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh.

He has three elder brothers Dinesh Raina, Naresh Raina, and Mukesh Raina, and an elder sister Renu. Dinesh, who is eight years older than Suresh, is a school teacher. On 3 April 2015, Suresh Raina was married to Priyanka Choudhary. With whom a daughter Gracia Raina was born on 14 May 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Suresh Raina Career

• In 2000, at the age of 14, Suresh Raina decided to concentrate on cricket and moved to Lucknow to attend the Government College, Guru Gobind Singh Sports College. After which he became the captain of Uttar Pradesh Under-16 team in the year 2002 and attracted the attention of national selectors with his talent. Who named the 15-year-old boy in the U-19 squad for England.
• Suresh Raina scored half-centuries in the Under-19 team and was selected for the Under-17 team to tour Sri Lanka in late 2002. In February 2003, at 16 years old, he made his Ranji Trophy debut against Assam. In which he played only one match. In late 2003, Suresh Raina was selected for the Asian ODI Championship for the U-19 World Cup and for the 2004 U-19 team. In which he scored three half-centuries and got a chance to train at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide under a Gavaskar scholarship for good performance.
• In January 2005, he made his List A debut against Madhya Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy ODI tournament and scored 94 for the first time in the Deodhar Trophy with 645 runs from 15 matches. He was selected for the Board President's team against Pakistan at Dharamshala in March and played for the Astley & Tyldesley Cricket Club in the Lancashire League in April, scoring 865 runs in 12 matches.
• Suresh Raina made his ODI debut against Sri Lanka on 29 July 2005.
• In late 2006, he was dropped from the team after a poor performance in the ODI series against South Africa.
• In the IPL of 2008, the Chennai Super Kings team bought Suresh Raina for 4.5 crores.
• Suresh Raina made his Test debut against Sri Lanka in the year 2010. He scored a century in his first Test match.
• In the 2011 England Test series, he was defeated by the team due to poor form in the test format.
• The World Cup 2011 had excellent performances in the quarter-finals and semi-finals.
• With his consistently good performance in the IPL, he has achieved the feat of scoring more than 400 runs in each season till 2014 and 374, 399, and 442 runs in the next three years. He is the highest run-scorer in the IPL, and also has a century in his name. Which he made against Punjab in 2013.
• Due to his good performance in IPL, he was selected for the Bangladesh tour in 2014. He also played the captain of the Indian team on this tour.
• He did well in the 2015 World Cup, but after a poor performance against South Africa in October 2015, he was again dropped from the ODI squad. After the Chennai Super Kings team suspension, he was named the captain of the Gujarat Lions team.

ODI Debut : 30 July 2005 (against Sri Lanka)
Test debut   :   26 July 2010 (against England)
T20 Debut  :   1 December 2006 (against South Africa)
Jersey Number :     3

Suresh Raina Awards and Achievements

• Suresh Raina is the first Indian batsman to score a century in all three formats of the game.
• He is the top run-scorer in the IPL with 4540 runs and is the only player to score more than 400 runs in consecutive IPL seasons.
• In September 2015, Suresh Raina gave his voice to the Bollywood song 'Tu Mili Sab Mill' from the movie 'Meruthia Gangster'. In January 2018, he sang the song 'Bittiya Rani' to promote support for girls on behalf of his wife's radio show 'Priyanka Raina Show'.

Suresh Raina Controversy

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In the year 2012, Suresh Raina made a tweet about the Pakistan team. Suresh Raina wrote in his tweet that after Pakistan was eliminated after the semi-final loss to Sri Lanka played with Sri Lanka, "One day two days I have gone home !!!" But later he deleted it. After which he had clarified that his nephew had mistakenly done it with his tweeter.

Suresh Raina Interesting Facts : -

*. Raina was born into a Kashmiri Pandit family in Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir.

*. He spent his childhood in a hostel away from home.

*. He started playing cricket in 1999 as a professional player at Sports College, Lucknow.

*. He was also the captain of the Uttar Pradesh Under-16 team.

*. He collects his cricket bat and has collected over 250 bats so far, one of which his father gifted him in 1998.

*. He played his first Ranji match at the age of 16.

*. In his first ODI in 2005, he was dismissed for the first ball, playing against Sri Lanka.

*. During the one-day international in the Tri-Series 2013 against the West Indies, Raina and Ravindra  Jadeja got two chances to take the catch of Sunil Narine but failed.

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