C Keshava Murthy, the Dada of Statistics on Domestic Cricket researches an article on STR Binny exclusively for www.hrgcricstats.com. Read on ………….

STR Binny became the 17^th bowler from Karnataka to capture 100 or more wickets in Ranji Trophy. He reached the milestone in his 67^th Ranji game, when he captured the wicket of Nitish Rana in Delhi’s first innings on 11.11.2017. The following table lists the bowlers who have captured 100 or more wickets in Ranji Trophy for Karnataka {Note – All figures as at the end of third day’s play on 11.11.17}

No	Player	Wkts	Mat
1	SB Joshi	479	117
2	BS Chandrashekhar	437	076
3	EAS Prasanna	370	071
4	R Vinay Kumar	369	095
5	AR Bhat	343	071
6	D Ganesh	278	070
7	A Kumble	198	035
8	A Mithun	208	059
9	B Vijaykrishna	177	074
10	BKV Prasad	175	053
11	S Aravind	165	050
12	R Ananth	147	048
13	RMH Binny	111	068
14	NC Aiyappa	105	030
15	KA Jeshwanth	100	066
16	S Gopal	108	035
17	STR Binny	100	067

STR Binny emulated his father RMH Binny in taking 100 plus wicket for Karnatka. RMH Binny had a tally of 111 wickets from 68 matches. Thus RMH Binny and STR Binny became the first pair of Father and Son capturing 100 plus wickets in Ranji Trophy from Karnataka. RMH Binny had taken his 100^th wicket in 53^rd match, while STR Binny achieved the feat in 67^th match

It is interesting to note that STR Binny had earlier emulated the feat of his father RMH Binny in scoring a century for Karnataka. STR Binny had scored a century (118) in Karnataka’s first innings. Thus they became the first Father-Son combination to score a century against the same opposition

STR Binny became the tenth all rounder when he took his 100^th wicket. His run aggregate in Ranji Trophy read 3683 at the end of Karnataka’s first innings in this game. Father RMH Binny is also in the list of Karnataka cricketers who have accomplished the all rounder’s feat of 1000 plus runs and 100 plus wickets. Thus RMH and STR Binny earned the distinction of becoming the first Karnataka Father-Son pair to accomplish the all rounder’s feat of 1000 plus runs and 100 plus wickets. The following list shows the Karnataka cricketers who have achieved the feat  of all  rounder’s double

No	Player	Mts	Runs	Wkts
1	RMH Binny	68	4173	111
2	D Ganesh	70	1584	278
3	KA Jeshwanth	66	3824	100
4	SB Joshi	117	4116	479
5	A Kumble	35	1489	198
6	B Vijayakrishna	74	2191	177
7	R Vinay kumar	95	2070	369
8	S Gopal	35	1529	108
9	A Mithun	59	1031	208
10	STR Binny	67	3683	100

STR Binny’s feat of capturing 100 wickets, performing the feat of all rounder’s double to emulate his father and also to score a century against the same opposition as his father  provides the first ever instance in the history of Ranji Trophy  of a son performing the three feats in the same game to emulate his father.