In IPL 2023, Suresh Raina, Chris Gayle, and Eoin Morgan will act as auction experts. Suresh Raina began his commentary career in the IPL 2022.
Suresh Raina, the veteran Indian hitter. Is poise to make a comeback as a cricket commentator on the IPL 2023 auction day. Which is schedule for December 23 in Kochi. Raina will be one of the Jio Sports panelists, donning the expert’s hat. Some of the game’s biggest personalities will be on the panel. Including England’s World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan and West Indies power hitter Chris Gayle.
Notably, Gayle has expressed no interest in registering his name for this year’s IPL auction. Whilst Morgan had no takers at last year’s blockbuster auction. He led the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to the finals of the 2021 season, when they were defeat by Chennai Super Kings (CSK).
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Suresh Raina’s cricketing/broadcasting career
After being release by CSK, Raina submit his name into last year’s huge auction, but no franchises exhibit interest in him during the two-day event, and he went unsold. Later, as a broadcaster and analyst, the southpaw made his debut, and he was a member of Star Sports’ IPL Hindi commentary crew.
Raina, dubbed ‘Mr.IPL,’ was the best run-scorer in IPL history at one time and now ranks sixth, with 5528 runs from 205 matches at an average of 32.52 and a strike rate of 136.76, including a century and 39 half-centuries.
Because he was no longer under contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in India , the UP player decide to build a name for himself in overseas franchise leagues by joining with eventual champions Deccan Gladiators for the Abu Dhabi T10 League 2022. Raina announced his retirement from international cricket in August 2020, capping up a ten-year career in which he played 18 Tests, 226 One-Day Internationals, and 78 Twenty20 Internationals.
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