Suresh Raina (CSK)

In the game against RR, coming in to bat at No. 3 in the third over, Suresh Raina looked in the affirmative from the word go. He played his shots and did not let the early wicket have any effect on the team. Raina scored his 34th IPL half-century, 52 (35), with the help of six fours and a six. In the season so far he has amassed 442 runs in 12 games at a strike rate of 136. He has now become the only batsman in the history of IPL to score more than 300 runs in all the season of IPL.