raina registered strong performances in this series, which india won 3–2. he scored 277 runs at an average of 92.33 with four consecutive half-centuries but only two of them in a winning cause. he became 13th indian batsman to cross 4000 international runs, in his 159th odi and got his first man of the series award in this format. at the end of the series, he broke into the icc top 10 ranked batsmen for the first time in his career.