New Delhi: All-rounder Stuart Binny on Monday announced his retirement from all forms of cricket with immediate effect.
“It has given me tremendous joy to have represented my country at the highest international level,” Binny, son of 1983 World Cup-winning allrounder Roger Binny and a two-time Ranji Trophy winner, said in a statement. ”
Binny, 37, represented India across 23 matches – six Tests, 14 ODIs and three T20Is. His first-class career spanned nearly 17 years, and played the bulk of those 95 matches for his home state Karnataka. His standout domestic season was in 2013-14 when he scored 443 runs at 43.22 and took 14 wickets at 32.
Binny, who has the experience of 95 first-class matches, played a few Tests with reasonable success under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
In his debut Test against England in July 2014, he scored 78 in the second innings and that remained his only half-century in six Tests.
Binny remained a regular in India’s ODI squads, though his playing opportunities were limited. He went to the 2015 World Cup, but didn’t get to play a match. He last played an international match in 2016, a T20I, and conceded 32 runs in an over to West Indies in Lauderhill.
Binny began his IPL career with Mumbai Indians in 2010. He was a regular member of the Rajasthan Royals line-up from 2011 to 2015, and, following the team’s suspension ahead of the 2016 season, was signed up by his home franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 2 crore.
