Suresh Raina IPL 2022 Team, Runs, Century, Highest Score, Auction Price

Suresh Raina IPL 2022 Team – One of the best utility cricketers in white-ball cricket for India, Suresh Raina is referred to as Mr IPL. He could bowl, bat at the most difficult position, an electric fielder and what not. He has made IPL his own for the good part of 12 years from 2008 to 2019. He represented only 2 teams at the IPL level so far, in Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Lions.

Suresh Raina IPL 2022 Team

Suresh Raina was not retained by CSK due to his poor season in 2021. It was expected that the star player, with base price of 2 Crore, would get a bid from any of the 10 teams including CSK. In 2022 IPL Auction, no team seemed interested in the veteran Suresh Raina as the southpaw didn’t get a single bid. Suresh Raina has been roped in by Star Sports for commentary stint in IPL 2022.

Lets take a look at the illustrious Suresh Raina IPL career.

Suresh Raina IPL

Suresh Raina batted at the top of the order in #3 position almost all through his career for CSK and GL which allowed him to play a long innings as he had more time to bat. But the fact that he gathered runs consistently at a steady pace shows the speciality of the southpaw.

Year	Matches	Runs	Average	Strike rate	50s
2008	16	421	38	142	3
2009	14	434	31	140	2
2010	16	520	47	142	4
2011	16	438	31	134	4
2012	19	441	25	135	1
2013	18	548	42	150	4
2014	16	523	40	146	5
2015	17	374	24	123	2
2016	15	399	28	127	3
2017	14	442	40	143	3
2018	15	445	37	132	4
2019	17	383	23	121	3
2021	12	160	17	125	1
Total	205	5528	32	136	39

Suresh Raina is a very handy bowler with his part time off spinners. He has a pretty good economy rate for a part time bowler.

IPL matches	Wickets	Average	Economy rate
205	25	44	7.4

Suresh Raina The face of CSK

Suresh Raina was an integral part of CSK alongside MS Dhoni since the very first season. He has won 4 IPL trophies for CSK and has a huge fan following. Its sad that his career had to end at the age of 35 but his legacy wont be forgotten forever. When CSK was banned from playing IPL for 2 seasons in 2016 and 2017, Suresh Raina went on to captain Gujarat Lions and took them to playoffs in 2016.

IPL 2022 Stats
Most Runs in IPL	Hat trick in IPL
Most Wickets in IPL	Highest score in IPL
Highest Strike Rate in IPL	Highest partnership in IPL
Most centuries in IPL	Highest paid player in IPL
Most sixes in IPL	Best bowling figures in IPL