Someone who had plenty of potential but didn’t even manage 30 games at the highest level, has today gone on to announce his retirement from First Class and international cricket. At one time tipped to be India’s greatest all-rounder, he couldn’t live up to the hype and after multiple chances for the Men in Blue, he last appeared in an international game in 2016. We’re talking about Stuart Binny!
He played 6 Tests, 14 ODIs and 3 T20Is for India where he scored a fifty each in the Test and ODI format and picked a total of 24 wickets across all formats. Having made his ODI debut in January 2014, he last played for India in a T20I against West Indies in August 2016. Today, 30th August, he gave a statement regarding his international retirement.
Now 37 years old, the chance of ever making a comeback are almost non-existent, especially with the highest quality of cricketers now knocking the doors of the selectors. Having not even played in the IPL since IPL 2019 where he picked only 1 wicket in 8 games, his career was anyway finished and he seems to have made the right decision.
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However, he got 7 wickets in his last four List A games earlier this year, along with 2 fifties with the bat in those games, so he may believe he has some more game left in him. Of late, Indian cricketers have been making the move of early retirements to bag contracts in other tournaments and T20 leagues across the world. Most recently, Unmukt Chand retired to play cricket in the USA.
“It has given me tremendous joy and pride to have represented my country at the highest international level. I’m grateful to the coaches who encouraged me, to the selectors who put their faith in me. To the friends who shared my cricketing journey with overwhelming pride, to the colleagues who put their hearts out on the battlefield with me. To my captains who entrusted me. None of this would have been possible had it not been for my family, I stepped out on the field everyday thinking about them.” he said in his statement.
Binny will mostly be remembered for his 6/4 that he picked up against Bangladesh which stays the best figures for an Indian cricketer in ODIs till date. For more updates on his career and other cricketing stories from around the world, stay tuned to ReadScoops.com.
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