IPL’s all-time leading run scorer Suresh Raina currently finds no place in the Indian cricket team in any format of the game. Until a year and a half back, Raina was seen as an integral part of India’s white ball set up and a proven T20 match winner.
So what’s kept him out of action and what future holds for the 30-year-old?
Attending a promotional event in Mumbai, Raina did well to say all the right things in his quest for a comeback. “I am working hard. Nothing is tough in life if you enjoy your process which I have always done. I have always made tough comebacks. Like when I got injured, it was a very difficult phase. I am in a good space. Things will happen with time,” he said.
Until the yo-yo test question came up. “Ask the BCCI. When time comes I will speak. I am fit,” he replied when asked about the new non-negotiable fitness standard set by the Indian team management.
When probed further if he would be ready to meet his next yo-yo date, he added unimpressed, “I have come here having a good run. But if you ask BCCI, you will know better.”
Will it be easy? NO! Will it be worth it? Absolutely! always… Share with me your fitness regime! 👍💪☝️✅💯
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina)
However, he was ignored for the Sri Lanka series with the reports suggesting that he along with veteran batsman Yuvraj Singh failed the fitness test which has now been made mandatory b🦩efore getting into the national team.
