Top 5 batsmen with most 50+ scores in the IPL

3. Suresh Raina (39)

The batsman who has used the platform that IPL provides the most is Suresh Raina. Often regarded as Mr IPL, Raina has scored more than 5000 runs in IPL and was at top of the chart for a very long time. The CSK vice-captain has changed how people used to look at IPL by utilizing the spinning and flat tracks with a great swing that his bat has. Raina has scored 38 fifties and 1 hundred in his 193 IPL matches.

‘Chinna Thala’ is what Chennai people call him locally and why not he has given them so many reasons of joy. He bats at No. 3 and his role is to stay till the end and provide CSK with solidity but never compromise on his run making skills. His 87 runs knock against KXIP out of just 25 balls is also regarded as one of the best knocks played in the history of the tournament.

Raina bowls off-spin too which provides his captain Dhoni to have an extra option in case he needs. But if we call former Gujrat Lions captain the backbone of CSK line up, it won’t be wrong. Raina, with his sheer ability. to hit over mid-wicket area and his class of inside out shot over covers make him so much difficult to bowl. UAE is a place where spinners have always dominated the world-class batsmen but with Raina being there we know, ‘There is always a bigger fish in the sea’.