Suresh Raina turned into the primary player ever to achieve 5000 keeps running in the Indian Premier League as Chennai Super Kings took on the Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Chepauk on Saturday.
Prior to the beginning of the match, Raina required 15 hurries to go past the hindrance and second to him is Virat Kohli, who has 4954 rushes to his name. Rohit Sharma (4493), Gautam Gambhir (4217) and Robin Uthappa (4086) establish the main five alongside the two above.
Raina has been a standout amongst the most reliable entertainers in the association and has scored more than 400 keeps running in 9 of the 11 seasons up until this point. The southpaw scored 374 keeps running in 2015 and 399 of every 2016. Raina’s most astounding scoring season came in 2013, when he crushed 523 keeps running in the 2014 season at a normal of 40.23.
Raina was likewise fourth in the untouched rundown of sixes hit with 185 preceding the beginning of the period and third in the rundown of most fours with 448.
Raina has so far crushed one century and 35 fifties from 177 IPL recreations for Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Lions, whom he spoke to in 2016 and 2017, when CSK were prohibited. He is additionally the player to play the most number of diversions in the IPL with Mahendra Singh Dhoni at second with 175 recreations to his name.
Raina was coming into the IPL on the back of some great thumps in the training recreations CSK played. The 32-year-old hit 56 runs and lit up the Chepauk as 12000 individuals came in to watch the match.
On Saturday, Raina came in to bat at No.3 at the fall of Shane Watson’s wicket and conveyed the ship forward. Raina achieved the milestone in the ninth over in the Chennai innings with a solitary off Umesh Yadav in their pursuit of 71.
