Suresh Raina on Monday became only the second Indian cricketer and ninth overall batsman to have completed 7,000 runs in overall Twenty20 cricket. Gayle, for that matter, has a little over 11,000 runs in a format wherein the second best is Brendon McCullum with 8,769 runs. Raina’s 126 is the second highest score by an Indian in T20s -- M Vijay holds the record with 127 for Chennai Super Kings (CSK). But on Monday the left-handed batsman roared back into the format he perhaps likes playing the most, smacking as many as 13 fours and seven sixes to score 126 not out, which is his highest score in the T20 format. Raina has so far played 265 T20 games (overall, including IPL) in which he now has 7,053 runs at 33.58 with four centuries and as many as 40 half-centuries.

Source: Hindustan Times January 22, 2018 10:52 UTC