Meet Suresh Raina who showed how to bat in English conditions

New Delhi:Indian batsman Suresh Raina struck a belligerent 100 off 75 deliveries to power the visitors to a challenging 304 for six in the second one-dayer against England Indian batsman Suresh Raina struck a belligerent 100 off 75 deliveries to power the visitors to a challenging 304 for six in the second one-dayer against England.Raina, registering his fourth ODI ton, then came good in the batting powerplays with Mahendra Singh Dhoni (52 off 51 balls) as his able partner put on a 144-run fifth-wicket partnership to propel India to a challenging score.Raina and Dhoni put up 144 runs for the fifth wicket, batting together for 16.5 overs and scoring at 8.55 runs per over, as India plundered 147 runs in the last 15 overs. Born on 27 November 1986 to a Kashmiri Pandit family, Suresh Raina is in playing eleven of Indian cricket team.He is a native of Rainawari, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir but now reside at Rajnagar town in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Same as all kashmiri refugees his family shifted here due to militancy in Kashmir province of Jammu & Kashmir.He is an aggressive left handed batsman and part time right handed Off spinner. In domestic cricket, He represents Uttar Pradesh in all forms and in Indian Premier League he is the vice-captain of Chennai Super Kings. In IPL, He is the highest run-getter with more than 2500 runs and with 47 catches he holds the record of taking most catches by a fielder in IPL. He is also the second highest Six hitter next to Chris Gayle of West Indies in IPL. At the age of 18, Raina got his break in ODI for Indian Cricket sqaud in 2005 against Sri Lanka. Though his debut in test team happened in 2010 against the same opponent. Raina holds the record of hitting century in all formats of gentleman's game. He was also in Playing eleven when Indian team Lifted World Cup of 2011.His journey in team India was on and off till Ganguly was the skipper. Sometimes Mohammed Kaif replaced him and sometimes he was called as replacement for injured Sehwag.In the very first ODI, Raina was bowled by Spin legend Muttiah Murlitharan. In his debut series he was able to score meagre 37 runs with a poor average of 12.33, So he got ousted from the team. After the ouster of Ganguly from team India, Raina got a call for 2006 tour of Pakistan where in one match he guided India to a successful run chaseAgain in 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, he had to warm bench because of his poor form. His luck turned right away from IPL, with his strong batting in all the matches he was once again in the limelight and became first choice for the selectors of team India. He got selected in squad for 2008 Asia Cup and On 25 June 2008 Raina scored his maiden hundred against Hong Kong in just 66 balls becoming the second fastest century maker in Indian Cricket history. In next two matches, he scored 84 off 69 balls against Pakistan and 116 off 107 balls against BangladeshSuresh Raina won man of the match award consecutively three times in that series and since then, Raina has been a member of India's full-strength ODI and T20 team. Suresh Raina is the only Indian who has scored century in both international T20 and Indian Premier League.Here is Suresh Raina's Career Stats: Competition: Test ODI T20 Matches: 17 193 43Runs scored: 768 4763 922 Batting average: 28.44 35.81 32.92 100s/50s: 1/7 4/29 1/03Top score: 120 116* 101 Balls bowled: 921 1574 174 Wickets: 13 27 06 Bowling average: 40.92 49.14 39.16 5 wickets in innings: 0 0 0 10 wickets in match: 0 0 n/a Best bowling: 2/1 2/17 4/26 Catches/stumpings 22/– 71/– 78/– 91/–