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Bengaluru, February 16: Suresh Raina, who has been recalled to the India team for the T20Is against South Africa, said the three matches will be important for him.
"It feels like I've been selected to the Indian team for the first time. I have worked hard for the past two years, so when I saw my India jersey I felt a bit emotional that I got the jersey after quite a while. The three games will be quite important.
"These T20 matches are important, then Bangladesh [T20 tri-series] and then IPL. Fifty-overs does need experience - it makes a lot of difference. Because this position is such, that you'll come to bat when the team is in trouble," said Raina.
Raina said omission from the Indian team had hurt him. The left-handed batsman was discarded for the Australia tour of 2015 after a string of low scores.
Raina made a brief return to India team for the home T20I series against England and made 34, 7 and 63. But that was that for Raina as he missed the subsequent tours to West Indies, Sri Lanka and home series against Sri Lanka, New Zealand and Australia.
"I was quite down because I wasn't playing," Raina said. "Plus, I wasn't sure why I wasn't playing. I had made a fifty [53] against South Africa, but after that nothing happened. I thought to myself, 'I'm not giving up, [I] want to play for the country, and [I] want to play with all my heart," said Raina.
In between Raina, one of the fittest players around, had failed the Yo-Yo test and he attributed that to the game time.
"In the middle I was playing a lot. Virat [Kohli] had set some parameters, and when I did the yo-yo test at the NCA 10 days ago, my speed was among the top five or six. I've always been fit, and I am fit now, but sometimes one needs time to recover," said Raina.
