The former India batsman Suresh Raina had a terrible outing against Mumbai Indians (MI) in the UAE-leg opener of the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2021). The Southpaw was dismissed for just 4(6) at Dubai.

As the former South Africa and Royal Challengers (RCB) cricketer, Dale Steyn was not impressed with Raina’s batting, in his latest interaction with ESPNCricinfo, the right-arm pacer openly criticized Suresh Raina.

“Boult started really well. That ball especially to Raina. He ran in and set that aggressive leg-side field. And you could see immediately that. He (Suresh Raina) didn’t want anything of it. He looked like a schoolboy cricketer at a point,” Steyn said.

“I couldn’t believe this is an international player doing what he was doing, almost embarrassing that he broke his bat and got out. Had that gone for six, maybe I won’t have said that but it is what we saw,” he added.

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As far as the first match of the second-leg of IPL 2021 is concerned, the MI bowling attack of ran through this CSK batting unit with early breakthroughs and reduced the three-time champions to 24/4 in the first 6 overs.

But, thanks to some fantastic batting by Ruturaj Gaikwad who played an unbeaten knock of 88(58) with 9 boundaries, 4 maximums, and saved the Chennai-based franchise from an embarrassment to take the team to a competitive 156 in their quota of 20 overs.

Despite a poor start, CSK made an epic comeback in the match and defeated the defending champions MI by 20 runs, and moved to the top of the table with 12 points to their name in 8 matches played.

(With ESPNCricinfo Inputs)