WATCH: Suresh Raina responds hilariously to the question about his IPL comeback

Former India world Suresh Raina is recently plying his industry within the Legends League Cricket (LLC) for the India Maharajas. He performed an impressive innings of 49 runs off 41 balls within the tournament in opposition to Global Giants on Wednesday (March 15), and was once the top-scorer for his facet. Raina’s efficiency with the bat was once sensible and it reminded everybody of his glory days.

Right through the post-match press convention, Raina was once requested about his comeback to the Indian Premier League (IPL). He answered to the question by way of taking a hilarious dig at former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi. Raina said that in contrast to Afridi, he isn’t any person who makes a number of comebacks after pronouncing retirement, and that there aren’t any probabilities of him returning to the IPL.

“Primary Suresh Raina hoon. Primary Shahid Afridi nahi hoon (laughs). Retirement le chuka hoon (I’m Suresh Raina, now not Shahid Afridi. I’ve taken retirement),” he stated leaving everybody within the room in splits.

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‘Suresh Raina Hu, Shahid Afridi Nahin’

Hilarious Answer From Mr. IPL 😄@ImRaina #legendsleaguecricket #LLC2023 percent.twitter.com/GpV9uEa0wx

— Vaibhav Bhola 🇮🇳 (@VibhuBhola) March 15, 2023

Raina had introduced his retirement from world cricket on August 15, 2020, together with his former Indian teammate MS Dhoni, and has now not performed within the IPL because the 2021 season. He additionally introduced his IPL retirement after going unsold within the IPL 2022 mega public sale.

So far as the tournament between Indian Maharajas and Global Giants in involved, the Harbhajan Singh-led crew controlled to attain 136 runs for the lack of 9 wickets of their 20 overs, in large part due to Raina’s contribution with the bat.

Brett Lee was once the most productive bowler for the Global Giants, selecting up 3 wickets for simply 18 runs. Regardless of dropping seven wickets, Global Giants chased down the objective rather simply with Chris Gayle smashing 57 runs off 46 balls with 9 fours and a six, whilst Shane Watson contributed 26 runs. The Giants controlled to recover from the road within the nineteenth over of the innings.