Suresh Raina
First Indian to score a century in all three formats; IPL legend and former CSK mainstay.
Suresh Raina (born 27 November 1986) is an Indian former international cricketer. He played for the India national team and represented Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket. He was an aggressive left-handed middle-order batsman who occasionally bowled right-arm off-spin. Raina is the first Indian batsman to hit a century in all three formats of international cricket, and the first Indian to score a century in the T20 World Cup. He was a member of the Indian team that won the 2011 Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy.
Quick Facts
- Role
- Left-handed middle-order; upper-middle-order batter
- Affiliation (delhi)
- Delhi Daredevils, IPL 2012 season
- Batting hand
- Left-handed
- Bowling style
- Right-arm off-break (occasional)
- Ipl legacy
- Most iconic IPL batter of the 2010s, primarily via Chennai Super Kings
Lore & Background
Raina was born in Muradnagar, Uttar Pradesh. His family left Rainawari in Jammu and Kashmir amid the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in the 1990s. He completed his schooling at a boarding school and moved to Lucknow in 1998 to attend Guru Gobind Singh Sports College. He married Priyanka on 3 April 2015 and has two children. Since 2023, he has owned and operated Raina Indian Restaurant in Bos en Lommer, Netherlands.
Reader's Guide
Raina played for Chennai Super Kings throughout his IPL career, and later for Gujarat Lions after the suspension of CSK in 2016. He captained Gujarat Lions in 2016. He was retained by the returning Super Kings in 2018 for 11 crore. He became the first batsman to score 5000 runs in the IPL on 23 March 2019. He withdrew from the 2020 IPL season after his uncle was assaulted and died. He went unsold in the 2022 IPL Auctions and announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on 6 September 2022. He then became a commentator.
Did You Know?
- He scored the first T20I century by an Indian, against South Africa in the 2010 T20 World Cup.
- He was named in the all-time ESPNcricinfo IPL XI on the 10-year anniversary of the IPL.
- Raina holds an honorary doctorate from Vels University.
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