Why did CSK did not target Raina.!?

Sowmiya Sriram
Why did CSK did not target Raina.!?

No team has bid for suresh Raina in the first round of the IPL. The first day of the player auction for the IPL series took place yesterday. Up to 161 players were taken up for auction yesterday. In the first round suresh Raina, Steve Smith, Shakib Al Hasan, sam Billings were unsold. No one has bid for players including Matthew Wade, Umesh Yadav, Adil Rashid, Imran Tahir, Adam Zampa, amit Mishra, David Miller, and Mohammad Nabi. The chennai Super Kings did not even pick up the much-anticipated suresh Raina in the first round. This has shocked many Raina fans. In this case, why did the CSK team not target Raina? Is CSK weak if not for Raina?

Like Dhoni, suresh Raina has been playing for the chennai Super Kings in the IPL since 2008. He has played for CSK in 12 of the 14 IPL series played. This is why chennai fans affectionately call him chinna Thala. He scored 421 runs in the first IPL season in 2008. He then went on to score 434 in the second season. Until the 2014 IPL season, suresh Raina played well for CSK in all seasons.
IPL runs scored by Raina till 2014:

That means he has scored over 400 runs in all consecutive IPL series from 2008 to 2014. The CSK team retained suresh Raina in 2018 again. When the CSK team came back in that 2018 series he played in 15 matches and scored 445 runs. suresh Raina played a key role for the CSK team from the 2018 IPL series. Since then, Raina's role has begun to wane as players such as Ambati Rayudu, Shane Watson, and Du Plessis have begun to play better.

 Similarly, players including Rudraj kejriwal and Robin Uthappa added extra strength to the team's batting in the top order. Raina, who lost form due to this, did not get much importance in the CSK team. Even in the final of the last IPL series, Robin Uthappa replaced suresh Raina in the final. So the chennai Super Kings team has turned to the young players beyond Raina. Due to this, it is said that the chennai team did not target suresh Raina this time.
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