{"id":1197,"date":"2020-08-15T23:21:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=34175"},"modified":"2020-08-15T23:52:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T18:22:17","slug":"suresh-raina-china-thala-announces-retirement-from-international-cricket-heres-a-glimpse-of-his-ipl-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/suresh-raina-china-thala-announces-retirement-from-international-cricket-heres-a-glimpse-of-his-ipl-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Suresh Raina: \u2018China Thala\u2019 announces retirement from International cricket, here\u2019s a glimpse of his IPL glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Suresh Raina, an Indian cricket, who is a left-handed batsman and a part-time off-break bowler. He was one of the best fielders and the first of the three batsmen to ever score a century in all three formats of international cricket.\u00a0 Here is Raina\u2019s IPL success journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raina was bagged by Chennai Super Kings for 2.6 crores in the first IPL season. He played important knock and was a noticeable cricketer of CSK, in the absence of big players like Mathew Hayden, Michael Hussey, and Jacob Oram.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/20200815_231849_0000-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the two-year exile of CSK after 2015 IPL, Raina captained the temporary franchise Gujarat Lions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He was one of the retained players by the CSK franchise after its comeback.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raina is fondly referred to as \u2018Ms. IPL\u2019 for his dominance in the tournament where he scored in excess of 400 runs every year, except two seasons.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/20200815_231135_0000-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He recorded his highest score in IPL in a match against Kings XI Punjab in 2013, where he hit a century and was not out.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His blitzkrieg against Kings XI Punjab in 2015, where he scored 87 runs of 25 balls, is one of his standouts amongst all his IPL performances.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/20200815_231154_0000-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raina is a top-order batsman and the second-highest run-scorer with 5368 runs in 189 IPL innings. He is just 44 runs behind Virat Kohli, who has scored 5412 runs in 169 innings.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Suresh Raina is a leading IPL batsman and his 2020 game innings might break Virat\u2019s record and make a record of scoring fastest 6000 runs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suresh Raina, an Indian cricket, who is a left-handed batsman and a part-time off-break bowler. 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