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Fantasy Cricket – We All Love Suresh Raina

The left-hand batsman, Suresh Raina, has played 226 ODIs, 78 T20Is and 18 Test matches for India scoring 7,988 runs, seven centuries and 48 half-centuries. Additionally, he is the top-rated run-getter of Indian T20 fantasy cricket league games and has won three T20 league trophies with Chennai team.

An online fantasy cricket team can do very well if it picks Raina and he is in his performance.

Let’s take a look why would we prefer him in fantasy cricket India team of 11wickets.com . Read on:

Kashmiri roots

Suresh Raina’s father Trilok Chand comes from Rainawari in Jammu and Kashmir. His mother, is right from Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh. Nevertheless, his family settled down in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Raina is one of five siblings while he has three elder brothers named, Dinesh, Mukesh and Naresh. He has one sister named Renu.

The UP sports hostel setup

Being a teenager, Raina needed to leave Ghaziabad and go on to Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, to enlist at one of the state’s sports hostels. From moving there in 1999, Raina labored his way up the age groups. As per the rules, he was permitted to keep his room in the hostel for about seven years. It had been only in 2006, when he was already an India player, that Raina emptied out it.

At 16, an India Under-19 debut

Raina was 16 when he was initially picked to represent India Under-19s on a tour to England. In the first match, he secured 72 runs in an informal four-day ‘Test’ for a team led by Manvinder Bisla and presenting Ambati Rayudu and Irfan Pathan, his future India teammates. Tim Bresnan was a leading face in that England team.

A duck on India debut

Referred to the senior Indian team at the age of 18 following his achievement in domestic cricket and for representing Indian sides, Raina’s international debut was not a day to recollect. Against Sri Lanka at Dambulla on July 30, 2005, the left-hand batsman was out at very first ball by the one and only Muttiah Muralitharan. Bagging a duck on ODI debut put him together with Sachin Tendulkar and Shikhar Dhawan.

The IPL superstar

Raina has really been the ruler of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Contracted with the Chennai Super Kings ever since the beginning of the league – with the exception two seasons with Gujarat Lions when the franchis was revoked – Raina has been a T20 giant. He is CSK’s all-time best run-scorer with 4985 at 35.10, two hundreds and 34 fifties. Additionally to these numbers, Raina has 96 catches and 36 wickets for CSK. His run count of 4985 is also the most for any cricketer in the IPL.

India’s T20 giant

Raina’s achievement for CSK and India has placed him at the top of the list of the nation’s leading run-getters in T20 cricket. With 7929 runs in 280 career T20 innings, Raina is the top scorer for India well before Virat Kohli who has 7809 from 236 innings. He and Kohli have four T20 hundreds each.

Youngest to lead India in T2oIs

Raina is the youngest cricketer to captain India in T20 internationals. He captained India the first time when he was 23. He also tends to be the second oldest to lead India in ODIs, after Tendulkar.

Indian cricket’s first 1-2-3 hero

When Raina hit a 100 on Test debut against Sri Lanka in 2010, he had become the first Indian to have a century in every format of international cricket. Raina had struck his first ODI ton against Hong Kong in the Asia Cup 2008. His, and India’s, 1st T20I 100 came against South Africa in the 2010 ICC World T20 in the West Indies.

A proper finisher

In 55 excellent ODI run-chases for India when Raina has batted, the 32-year-old averages 66.60 at a strike-rate of 101.74 with two hundreds and 13 half-centuries. This average is behind Kohli (98.93), MS Dhoni (97.81) and Rayudu (116.60) and just Virender Sehwag has a better strike-rate (105.96)

A vocational chef

Raina loves cooking. He has revealed that during his earliest tour as a skipper of the Indian team, he had prepared food for the entire team besides Ashok Dinda.

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Pick Your Perfect XI for Fantasy Cricket

Playing fantasy cricket needs good knowledge and loads of skill in cricket. If you are a newbie then you can start with practice league following competing with 1 or 2 users with small money. Moreover, if you want to win big having less investment then play only big leagues. If you want to win big with more investment then play many 2 or 3 players’ leagues. Here winning probability will be good.

You can also win big with normal investment then play many 20 or 50 players’ leagues. In the daily fantasy cricket games at 11wickets.com there is also the option to win cash prizes and have much fun with less investment by playing 5 or 10 players’ leagues.

When you have good knowledge of the fantasy cricket India, you can try to compete with more than 10 competitors as here your margin will be high. Avoid Big Leagues at all cost if you don’t have proper plan. Your chance of winning in big leagues is 0.0001% while in small leagues its 30-50%. Most recommended leagues are small leagues with just 2 Players.

Whatever leagues and how many leagues you might play, the tricky part in online fantasy cricket is the selection of the playing XI. If your player is in playing the match he will at least score some points. But if he is sitting on the pavilion you will get zero points for that and your winning chances decreases by 10% for your each player not playing the match. This is also a very essential point for any fantasy cricket team.

So it is important to select a perfect playing XI.

Always remember that your chosen XI players must play in real match.
Any player who’s in doubt shouldn’t be part of your selected XI.
You should get playing XI news from the sources which are reliable.
Choose each player only when he justifies his part in your selected XI.
Choose captain and vice-captain sensibly.
Always try to pick the players who are in their form in the real matches while choosing team
Mostly pick the wicket keeper and other batsmen who come to bat higher in the order.
To make sure you have a perfect playing XI always edit your team in the last hour.
Check which players are injured, which players are back from injuries or any other latest news for your chosen team members.

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Fantasy Cricket – Inevitable Records by Legend Sangakkara

On the crease, he had shown consistency unmatched by any of the international cricketers. Kumar Sangakkara had bid adieu to the international cricket. It was following the Test against India in 2015. Fantasy cricket fans acknowledge that he had finished as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the sport.

In daily fantasy cricket sport, some cricketers show glimpses of becoming greatest of their nation in initial stages of career. Some move ahead as per expectations while others fail. For Sri Lanka, Sangakkara is their greatest batsman who improved his cricket a lot from initial stage.

With all the runs he scored, he kept wickets in ODI cricket and did well at that as well. Sangakkara made his International debut in an ODI on July 5, 2000 against Pakistan at Galle. In today’s post, we will list some important records Sangakkara has to his name for the fantasy cricket league fans. Read them and play the game at 11wickets app.

Highest run-getter at No. 3 position in Tests

Sangakkara has scored 11,679 runs at No.3 in his Test career, which is a record. Nobody else has more than 30 centuries at No. 3. His average of 60.82 at No. 3 is the second best only to Don Bradman’s 103.63 at that position.

Highest run-getter among left-handed batsmen in Tests

Kumar Sangakkara’s 12,400 is the most by any left-hand batsman in the history. He also has the most Test centuries by a left-hander — 38.

Three sequences of three or more centuries in consecutive innings

Sangakkara scored centuries in three consecutive Test innings thrice in his career: 137, 103 and 219 in 2009-10; 142, 105 and 139 in 2013; and 319, 105 and 147 in 2014.

Most consecutive Test fifties

Sangakkara made seven fifties in seven innings in the 2014. 75, 319, 105, 147, 61, 79 and 55 in the two series in Bangladesh and England. He is the joint record holder of fifties in most consecutive Test innings.

Triple century and a century in the same Test (First-Class match)

Sangakkara scored 319 and 105 against Bangladesh at Chittagong in February 2014. He became only the second batsman in First-Class cricket to score a triple-century and a century in the same match.

Reaching triple century with a six

Sangakkara got to his only triple-century of Test career with a six. He hit 4, 6, 6 in successive balls off Shakib Al Hasan from to there from 286. He became only the second batsman after Virender Sehwag to reach a triple century with a six.

Highest partnership in Test (First-Class) cricket

Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene shared record partnership of 624 for the third wicket against South Africa at SSC in 2006. It is only partnership in excess of 600 for any wicket in the history of Tests and First-Class cricket.

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