{"id":199820,"date":"2022-09-07T00:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T19:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=199820"},"modified":"2022-09-07T00:37:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T19:07:40","slug":"raina-retires-from-all-forms-of-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/raina-retires-from-all-forms-of-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Raina retires from all forms of cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, 6 Sep: Former India batter Suresh Raina on Tuesday announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, a move that makes him eligible for competing in overseas T20 leagues.<br \/>\nThe 35-year-old had followed M S Dhoni into international retirement on August 15, 2020.<br \/>\nHe continued playing the IPL in 2021 but was released by Chennai Super Kings ahead of the 2022 season.<br \/>\n&#8220;It has been an absolute honour to represent my country &amp; state UP. I would like to announce my retirement from all formats of cricket,&#8221; Raina tweeted while thanking the BCCI, Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association and CSK.<br \/>\nSince an active India or domestic player can&#8217;t take part in overseas leagues, Raina needed to take this step for him to explore T20 leagues around the world.<br \/>\nHe could also be seen in Cricket South Africa&#8217;s new T20 league, to be held next year, with all six teams owned by IPL franchises, including CSK.<br \/>\nRaina played his last competitive game in October 2021 when he turned up for CSK against Rajasthan Royals in Abu Dhabi.<br \/>\nAs an India player, Raina played 18 Tests, 226 ODIs and 78 T20s. He was part of the World Cup winning squad in 2011. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, 6 Sep: Former India batter Suresh Raina on Tuesday announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, a move that makes him eligible for competing in overseas T20 leagues. The 35-year-old had followed M S Dhoni into international retirement on August 15, 2020. He continued playing the IPL in 2021 but was released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}