Suresh Raina blessed with a baby girl
May 15, 2016 at 7:42 PM
Suresh Raina is blessed with a baby girl “Gracia Raina” at 2:21 pm local time today in The Netherlands.
Raina, who is playing for Gujarat Lions had to skip a few IPL matches to be with wife Priyanka Chaudhury, a banker. Raina and Priyanka hitched in 2015 just after the World Cup Down Under.
Welcome my beautiful daughter. #GraciaRaina????. Long wait but totally worth it. #ProudFather.She is getting dressed up for her photoshoot
— Suresh Raina (@ImRaina) May 15, 2016
Raina this year has become the captain of Gujarat Lions.
In the last nine years, Raina never missed an IPL match.
Raina will miss an IPL milestone on Saturday. He is 15 runs shy of becoming the first batsman to score 4,000 runs in IPL. Of course, Gujarat Lions are almost sure to crack a playoff berth and hence Raina should achieve the landmark this season.
Twenty-nine-year-old Raina played all his IPL matches for Chennai Super Kings till CSK were banned for two seasons due to corruption-related issues. Raina was chosen to skipper IPL debutants the Gujarat Lions.
Raina has scored 3699 runs for Chennai and 286 runs for the Lions so far. For CSK, Raina scored one century while his best for GL so far has been an unbeaten 75.
Meanwhile, Virat Kohli’s 108 not out for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Rising Pune Supergiants at Bangalore on May 7 was his 14th fifty at Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. He now owns the record for most fifties in a single ground.
Kohli shares this T20 record with England’s Michael Carberry, who also has scored 14 fifties at Southampton. England’s Alex Hales has scored 13 fifties at Nottingham.