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CSK’s heartening Birthday wish for Suresh Raina

Dixit Bhargav
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CSK's heartening Birthday wish for Suresh Raina

CARDIFF, WALES – JULY 06: Suresh Raina of India bats during the 2nd Vitality International T20 match between England and India at SWALEC Stadium on July 6, 2018 in Cardiff, Wales. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images)

CSK’s heartening Birthday wish for Suresh Raina: The three-time IPL winners posted a series of tweets for their highest run-scorer.

IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings seem to be trying their best to make their vice-captain Suresh Raina’s day for the cricketer turns 32 today. Raina was one of the rare players to play for the same franchise in CSK for the first eight years of the tournament.

After leading Gujarat Lions for a couple of years (2016-2017), Raina was roped back into the CSK squad earlier this years. Not disappointing his fans, Raina was among the runs this year as CSK registered their third IPL title.

In 14 matches this year, Raina scored 445 runs at an average of 37.08 and a strike rate of 132.44, including four half-centuries. In the 171 matches which he has played for CSK across tournament, he has scored 4,986 runs at an average of 35.11 and a strike rate of 140.92.

Raina is also the highest run-scorer in the IPL, a record which he has kept under his belt for most part of the last 11 years. In 176 IPL matches, Raina has scored 4,985 runs at an average of 34.37 and a strike rate of 138.43.

For a cricketer who has accumulated so many memories and fans from a single franchise, such affection is bound to happen. Read CSK’s series of tweets for Raina below:

 

Read some of the other latest Twitter reactions on Raina below:

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Dixit Bhargav

Dixit Bhargav

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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