Suresh Raina has always been called a big match player. While playing for Team India, he used to score runs on every big occasion. Even in IPL, he performed this responsibility well for Chennai Super Kings. Now after retirement, by playing a brilliant innings in the final match of the Big Cricket League, he once again proved that the old fire is still there in him. Actually, on Sunday 22 December, the final match was played between Southern Spartans and Mumbai Marines in Surat. In this, he created a storm by scoring a half-century in just 24 balls. In this match his team scored runs.

Strike rate of 191, 9 fours and 1 six

Suresh Raina is captaining Southern Spartans in the Big Cricket League. Their competition was against Irfan Pathan's Mumbai Marines. Irfan won the toss and asked Raina's team to bat first. After this, Mumbai gave the first blow to Southern Spartans on the score of just 12 in the third over itself. Then Raina came to bat at number 3. He started the boundary as soon as he came and made a great start by taking the team out of pressure. Raina played an inning of 51 runs in 26 balls at a strike rate of 191. During this, he hit 9 fours and 1 six.

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took the team beyond 200

Suresh Raina along with opener Phil Mustard made a partnership of 119 runs in just 53 balls for the second wicket. During this period, Mustard also supported him a lot. He kept pace with Raina and scored 78 runs in 39 balls at a strike rate of 200. Mustard hit 10 fours and 4 sixes in his innings. However, Raina was out on the score of 131 and Mustard was out on the score of 145.

But due to the strong start of both, the rest of the batsmen got momentum. In the end, Faiz Fazal scored 30 runs in 19 balls, Abhimanyu Mithun scored 25 runs in 22 balls and Aman Khan scored 10 runs in 5 balls to take the team to 210 runs. In this way, Raina's team set a mountain-like target of 211 runs in front of Irfan Pathan's team in the final.