Suresh Raina

In an otherwise strong campaign, India will be wary of the fact that their openers have struggled to come out firing and are time and again being bailed out by others down the order

Suresh Raina's unbeaten 110 from 104 balls helped bail India out of trouble and beat a resolute Zimbabwean outfit by six wickets in their last world Cup 2015 Group B match played in Auckland on Saturday.

Karnataka batsman KL Rahul and Railways legspinner Karn Sharma have been picked in India's squad for the four-match Test series against Australia, along with Suresh Raina, who last played a Test for India in September 2012

Stats highlights from the first ODI between India and Sri Lanka in Cuttack

Ravi Shastri, the Indian team director, has talked up Suresh Raina's Test prospects after the batsman scored a glut of limited-over runs in recent months

Suresh Raina's 62-ball 109 helped Chennai Super Kings easily overturn Kolkata Knight Riders by eight wickets in the Champions League Twenty20 final played in Bangalore on Saturday.

Chennai Super Kings had won three finals out of six before this. They were hungry for a fourth title, and they bulldozed their way there with the help of a consistently powerful batting line-up, led by Suresh Raina

Suresh Raina said he had to make sure he stayed till the last over because if one wicket fell, the pressure would have been on the new batsman

Suresh Raina bossed a Kolkata Knight Riders attack without the banned Sunil Narine for his third T20 century to lead Chennai Super Kings to their second Champions League T20 title

Suresh Raina said he had used his break from international cricket to make 'small changes' to his mental framework to help him make big scores

Suresh Raina was delighted his hundred helped the side win after a wretched run in the Test series

Suresh Raina has kept himself in contention for India outside of Asia by doing the small things well - now he needs to produce big innings with greater regularity

The pitch in Mirpur was something of a revelation for Suresh Raina, who said: "Especially in the subcontinent, I haven't seen a wicket do this much in the last 10 years"

Plays of the day from the first ODI between Bangladesh and India in Mirpur

Suresh Raina, the India captain, was swift to defend the squad he has been charged with for the three ODIs against Bangladesh

The lower profile of the India-Bangladesh series does not dilute the challenges ahead of Suresh Raina - trying to balance the demands of captaincy while reviving his ODI form

Suresh Raina's 33-run assault off Parvinder Awana in the sixth over of Chennai Super Kings' 227-run chase against Kings XI Punjab in Mumbai

A century from Virender Sehwag laid the platform for Kings XI Punjab to enter their first IPL final, after they survived a scare sparked by Suresh Raina's 25-ball 87

After a few off games, Chennai Super Kings held on to all their catches, after which Mumbai Indians fumbled in the field to clear the qualifier passage for the most consistent team in the IPL history