India vs http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539 named captain
Suresh Raina has been named captain of the Indian cricket team for their upcoming tour of the West Indies. He has captained the Men in Blue once before in a triangular series against Zimbabawe and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, where he lost 3 and won 1 match as skipper.
Raina has performed excellently in the recently concluded IPL-4, which will give him confidence against the Caribbean Kings.
India will start their Caribbean tour with a one-off T20 match, which is scheduled to be played on 4th June, 2011, at Port of Spain, Trinidad. They will take part in five One Day Interantional (ODI) matches starting from 6th June, 2011
and later on play three Test matches as well.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mahendra-Singh-Dhoni-c73820, has withdrawn himself from the shorter versions of the game in the tour to have some rest but will be joining the team later on to lead them in the Test series.
Raina represented the victorious IPL side, Chennai Super Kings, who defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Final by 58 runs on 28th May, 2011, at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.
He scored 438 runs at an average of 31.28 runs, with a highest of an unbeaten 73 runs with four fifties and held the seventh spot in the overall list of high scoring batsmen in the IPL tournament.
Raina has captained the Men in Blue once before in a triangular series against Zimbabawe and Sri Lanka in 2009-10, where he lost 3 and won 1 match as skipper.
However, his current IPL-form was appreciated by his former coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajinder-Singh-Hans-c83588, who was confident that Raina will perform well on the West Indian tour.
"I am confident Raina will do well in the West Indies. He has been in superb form in the IPL and that will reflect in his captaincy as well”.
MS Dhoni was leading the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL-4 and Raina should have learned http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gordon-James-Muchall-c60376 under his wing, which will help in the upcoming series.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajinder-Pal-Singh-c83577 went on to comment about Raina:
"Gambhir did a splendid job captaining Kolkata http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Knight-c71599 Riders after a good performance in the World Cup. I am sure Raina must have learnt some tricks about captaincy being in the company of Dhoni at CSK and in the Indian team".
The Indian team announced for the West Indian team is well balanced and Rajinder anticipated that they will bring home positive results.
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