Chennai: Suresh Raina, popularly known as 'Mr IPL', will not be seen playing in the tournament this time. The reason for this is that earlier he was released by his team Chennai Super Kings (CSK). After this, none of the 10 teams including CSK bid on him in the mega auction. Everyone in the sports world is shocked by not getting a buyer for Raina, who has a base price of Rs 2 crore.
After this whole matter, now the CSK franchise has shared an emotional video giving farewell to Chinna Thala Suresh Raina. Through the post, CSK told that Raina was associated with the team from the first season of IPL i.e. 2008. In the video, CSK has shown the old memories related to Raina. Let us inform that Raina played 200 matches for CSK, scoring 5529 runs in 195 innings at an average of 33.10. During this his strike rate was 138.91. Raina has scored two centuries and 38 half-centuries while playing for CSK. Let us tell you that CSK was suspended for two years (2016-17) in between. During that time Raina played 5 matches for Gujarat Lions. Raina is the fourth highest run-scorer in IPL so far. He has played a total of 205 IPL matches so far, in which he has scored 5528 runs at an average of 32.51.
CSK CEO Kashi Vishwanath has reacted on not bidding for Raina. Recently, Kashi Vishwanath has said in a video shared by CSK that, 'Raina has been one of the players who have consistently performed better for CSK for the last 12 years. Of course, Raina's absence was very difficult for us. But at the same time, you should also understand that the composition of the squad depends on the form and type of team that any team would like to have. That's why we thought that Raina might not fit in this team.
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