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Raina becomes ninth Indian to score century on debut

Thursday, July 29, 2010 , Posted by Unknown at 12:47 AM

Suresh Raina
Suresh Raina became the ninth India [ Images ]n batsman to score a hundred on a debut for India.
Raina, who replaced Yuvraj Singh [ Images ] in the team, drove a length ball outside the off stump straight past the bowler to complete the ton.
He is 59th in the overall list of centurions on debut.
Raina, who is an integral part of India's One-day team has played 98 ODIs, with three centuries in the kitty.
Raina was involved in crucial partnership with Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ] to bail India out of a precarious situation in the second Test against Sri Lanka [ Images ].
Three others (Lala Amarnath, Abbas Ali Baig & Gundappa Viswanath) have done so in the second innings of the debut Test - taking the tally of debut centurions for India to 12.

Here-under is the list of highest scores for India in the debut innings:

Batsman Runs VS Venue Season
SC Ganguly 131 Eng Lord's 1996
S Amarnath 124 NZ Auckland 1975-76
DH Shodhan 110 Pak Kolkata [ Images ] 1952-53
M Azharuddin 110 Eng Kolkata 1984-85
Hanumant Singh 105 Eng Delhi [ Images ] 1963-64
V Sehwag 105 SA Bloemfontein 2001-02
PK Amre 103 SA Durban 1992-93
AG Kripal Singh 100* NZ Hyderabad 1955-56
SK Raina 100* SL Colombo SSC 2010

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