George Binoy

Deputy editor, ESPNcricinfo

Don't ban Twitter #ECB

Kevin Pietersen and Dimitri Mascarenhas' tweets may have drawn official ire but a ban on Twitter is not the answer, writes Emma John in the Guardian .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Why the NOTW's sting was justified

In the Guardian , Roy Greenslade explains why he thinks the News of the World sting which led to the breaking of the spot-fixing controversy was justified.

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Cracks in Pakistan's class divide

Cricket has drawn Pakistani society together but now shows apparently disparate elements are more similar than people think, writes Osman Samiuddin for the Observer .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Go for the bigger fish

What happens next could finally rid the game of the spectre of corruption and prove that the International Cricket Council really are capable of running the world game strongly and efficiently, writes Nasser Hussain in the Daily Mail .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Where are you, Pakistan?

Osman Samiuddin, writing in the Crest , traces the history of some of the present problems afflicting Pakistan cricket to a pay dispute between the players and the board in 1976.

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Cricket feels burden of proof

With criminal convictions looking increasingly unlikely, the game's corruption unit will pick up the investigation into the Pakistan betting scandal, writes Mike Selvey in the Guardian .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Mohammad Asif cut from movie

It's not just Mohammad Asif's cricket career that has suffered because of the spot-fixing scandal surrounding the Lord's Test, his potential movie career has taken a hit too

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Sinister, extraordinary and heartbreaking

While there is an understandable desire for swift resolution, the complexity of the spot-fixing case and the need to get any punishments absolutely spot on means that the ICC must take its time here, writes Rob Smyth in the Guardian .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Kevin Pietersen's fall from grace is startling

"It would be tempting to present Kevin Pietersen’s omission from England’s one-day squad as a morality tale about how the mighty have fallen, as that is plainly how the man himself sees it," writes Derek Pringle in the Telegraph

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

A tragedy for cricket

"Pakistan have been this way before — their Qayyum Inquiry into match-fixing was damning when it was published in the summer of 2000 — but that was in a time of peace in the country," writes Scyld Berry in the Telegraph on Sunday after

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

New Zealand gained little from tri-series

New Zealand got very little out of the tri-series in Sri Lanka; all they got was knocked out in inglorious fashion, writes Mark Richardson in the Herald on Sunday .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Welcome to real Test cricket

I've heard a lot of chat this summer from some of the more experienced [England] players about how much the ball is doing and how hard it has been for batting

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Brilliant move, Biff

Writing on Sport24.com , Rob Houwing says Graeme Smith made the right move in stepping down from Twenty20 captaincy.

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

A case of spectacular overreaction

An incident of monumental triviality — the Randiv no-ball — has been turned into one of earth-shattering importance, writes Nirmal Shekar in the Hindu .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Gentleman’s game, my foot

Randiv’s act of bowling a no-ball, with the scores level and Virender Sehwag on 99, has inevitably stirred a hornet’s nest

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Test batsmen cannot be judged by runs alone

"There is an interesting comparison to be made between Mohammad Yousuf and Alastair Cook, two batsmen who will be starting the third Test under intense pressure," writes Duncan Fletcher in the Guardian

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

This England can achieve more

In the Independent on Sunday , David Lloyd compares England's Class of 2004 to the Class of 2010 and says "Strauss's charges are a work in progress with dreams of becoming the finished article".

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Stuart Broad's petulance doesn't taint his character

"I would hesitate before making judgments about Stuart Broad on the back of his behaviour in the last Test, when he threw the ball at Zulqarnain Haider in his follow through

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Stuart Broad has been pushing it

If Stuart Broad' s transgression on Sunday was a one-off incident, a case of his aggression getting the better of him for the first time, then I would not have a problem with it

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Ryder the 'bad boy' again

At what point does New Zealand Cricket say, "Enough, Jesse"

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

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