The Indian team management will expect Suresh Raina to play his usual role in the ODI series vs New Zealand. Pic/Atul Kamble

For the first time, the 29-year-old Suresh Raina finds his ODI career at a crossroad. With the emergence of young talents like KL Rahul, Manish Pandey and Karun Nair, the mercurial southpaw, going through a lean patch, finds himself in a situation where he has to resurrect his career after being ignored for the ODI series against Zimbabwe and the T20 matches against West Indies in Florida. He has got the opportunity to do so when India take on New Zealand in the five-match ODI series, beginning in Dharamshala on October 16.