Chennai Superkings outshone Delhi Capitals to enter into the finals of the Indian Premier League against Mumbai Indians. CSK batsman Suresh Raina garnered a lot of praise on social media for his gesture during the match. In the first innings, Rishabh Pant while batting needed some help with his shoe-laces, and Raina being the gentleman that he is, obliged and went ahead in tying the laces of the dynamic Delhi batsman.
Soon Raina started trending on Twitter as the Twitterati was won over by Raina’s spirit of the game. The left-hander also liked a lot of tweets of his fans. However, there was a particular tweet that Raina liked that has raised a lot of eyebrows and spared a debate as the tweet spoke about Raina being sidelined from the Indian team due to politics in the team.
One of the users A Twitter user posted,
“Raina is the most humble cricketer of his generation. Sad he got sidelined due to team politics #CSKvDC”.
Raina went ahead to give a like on the tweet, raising questions in the minds of the cricket fans across the country about the issue of politics prevailing in the Indian cricket team regarding the selection of players.
Here is the tweet in question posted by a user identified as Arnab:
Suresh Raina is all set to represent his franchise Chennai Superkings in the finals of Indian Premier League 2019 against the Mumbai Indians in the pursuit of becoming the champions of the season.