IND vs ENG: Suresh Raina has a outrageous possibility to infer himself

Middle-order batsman Suresh Raina (in front) during Team India’s use event during Green Park, Kanpur yesterday. Pic/PTI

Kanpur: Marriage might have brought good fitness to Yuvraj Singh, carrying scored a overwhelming quip century opposite England usually a other day, though it has not been a box with Suresh Raina. After his matrimony to Priyanka in Apr 2015, a southpaw’s bonds have left down considerably. Over a final 21 months, he has mislaid his place in a ODI group and is now deliberate good adequate usually for T20s.

Raina was an constituent partial of a Indian group during a 2015 World Cup in Australia. He was a pivotal figure in MS Dhoni’s intrigue of things. But gradually he has mislaid his ODI place and with a presentation of immature talent like Kedar Jadhav, KL Rahul and Karun Nair, it seems really formidable that he will be means to recover his place when India go to England in Jun to urge their Champions Trophy crown.

Poor form and bad luck
Besides bad form, bad fitness has also put Raina behind a prolonged way. He was enclosed in a five-match ODI array opposite New Zealand in Nov final year, though fell ill during Uttar Pradesh’s opening Ranji Trophy match. In his deficiency Jadhav done a many of a event and has now cemented his place in a team. Take a box of unchanging Test ’keeper Wriddhiman Saha. When he got harmed during Test array opposite England, his deputy Parthiv Patel too did a same.

New beginning
It is a same conditions for Raina. He has to make a new commencement with a initial T20 International opposite England during Green Park in Kanpur tomorrow. He has got singular opportunities to stir a selectors, as he bats reduce down a sequence and there are usually 3 T20Is, before India play in a Champions Trophy. Of course, in between there will be a domestic Vijay Hazare Trophy and a IPL to interest a explain for a place in a Indian team. But it is a prolonged shot for him to revive his career with a white ball.

Despite setbacks, Raina stays positive. “I have been batting good in domestic cricket. we got dual 90s on my lapse to Ranji Trophy. Now we am focused on doing good and convalescent my mark in a ODI team. we sojourn certain and carefree all a time,” he said.

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