{"id":13506,"date":"2013-02-05T04:04:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T04:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13506"},"modified":"2013-02-05T04:04:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T04:04:03","slug":"test-cricket-is-my-ultimate-goal-suresh-raina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13506","title":{"rendered":"Test cricket is my ultimate goal: Suresh Raina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-13505\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"rainajadeja007\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/rainajadeja007.jpg\" height=\"164\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/rainajadeja007.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/rainajadeja007-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Mumbai:<\/strong> Suresh Raina has had a fabulous start of his Test career when he scored a century on Test debut \u2014 120 against Sri Lanka in Colombo in July 2010. But thereafter he hasn\u2019t been in best of forms in longer format of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the riddle of who will fill the No. 6 spot left vacant after the retirement of Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman from Test side has been around for quite a sometime. And now Raina\u2019s wants to grab the opportunity with some solid performances at the domestic level. The southpaw wants to use the Irani Cup as a platform and he looks very optimistic about it.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe Irani Cup is a very important match for me. Mumbai have done well in Ranji Trophy, but the RoI team is also good. Personally, if I do well, I will get an opportunity to play Test cricket again. I am trying and working hard. If I score runs here, it will be good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that batting with VVS Laxman was a learning curve for him where he learned how to bat with tail-enders. \u201cI learned how to keep wickets in tact when team is under pressure and that has really helped me in ODI\u2019s and if given a chance I can do it in Test as well. Over the years, I have learnt to play with the tail-enders. When you bat at No 6, you know you will have to bat with Dhoni, Jadeja, and Ashwin, may be Shami and Ishant sometimes. Batting with tail-enders, you need to take your chances. Test cricket will help me bring stability in my batting as well as it will help me make my temperament better.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>While Captain Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Murali Vijay and Manoj Tiwary didn\u2019t made it to the nets, Raina had a good hit in the nets on Monday, middling the ball well and stepping down to the spinners. He is looking for a good outing against Mumbai this week will be the first step towards his goal of playing Test cricket.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indian Sports News Network<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-13505\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"rainajadeja007\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/rainajadeja007.jpg\" height=\"164\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/rainajadeja007.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/rainajadeja007-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Mumbai:<\/strong> Suresh Raina has had a fabulous start of his Test career when he scored a century on Test debut \u2014 120 against Sri Lanka in Colombo in July 2010. But thereafter he hasn\u2019t been in best of forms in longer format of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the riddle of who will fill the No. 6 spot left vacant after the retirement of Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman from Test side has been around for quite a sometime. And now Raina\u2019s wants to grab the opportunity with some solid performances at the domestic level. The southpaw wants to use the Irani Cup as a platform and he looks very optimistic about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[466,6376,544,810,557,558],"class_list":["post-13506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-irani-cup","tag-sourav-ganguly","tag-suresh-raina","tag-virender-sehwag","tag-vvs-laxman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Test cricket is my ultimate goal: Suresh Raina - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13506\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Test cricket is my ultimate goal: Suresh Raina - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mumbai: Suresh Raina has had a fabulous start of his Test career when he scored a century on Test debut \u2014 120 against Sri Lanka in Colombo in July 2010. 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