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{{short description|Scottish cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Ronald Binny
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Ronald Alexander William Binny
| birth_date = 20 January 1910
| birth_place = [[Formby]], [[Lancashire]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|5|24|1910|1|20|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Barnstaple]], [[Devon]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Left-handed
| bowling = Left-arm [[Fast bowling|fast]]
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1940/41
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 15
| bat avg1 = 5.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 9
| deliveries1 = 78
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 3 November
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/ronald-binny-27046 Cricinfo
}}

'''Ronald Alexander William Binny''' (20 November 1910 – 24 May 1979) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in the [[British Indian Army]], and later the [[Royal Auxiliary Air Force]]. For much of his life, his first given name was '''Ranald'''.

==Life==
Binny was born prematurely at [[Formby]] in November 1910.<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Frederick Arthur |editor-last=Crisp |title=Visitation of England and Wales |volume=21 |url=https://archive.org/details/visitationofengl21howa/page/72/mode/1up|year=1921|page=72|publisher=Privately printed |location=London}}</ref> He was educated at [[The King's School, Canterbury]],<ref>{{cite book|title=King's School, Canterbury: Register 1859-1931|publisher=O.K.S. Association|location=[[Canterbury]]|date=1932}}</ref> before attending the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. Binny graduated from there onto the unattached list of the [[British Indian Army]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in January 1930.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33575|date=31 January 1930|page=652}}</ref> Promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] followed in April 1932,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33832|date=30 April 1932|page=3591}}</ref> with promotion to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in August 1938.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34608|date=17 March 1939|page=1851}}</ref>

Binny fought in the [[Second World War]] with the [[9th Jat Regiment]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37184|date=17 July 1945|page=3755|supp=y}}</ref> From 1942 to 1945 he served with [[V Force]];<ref>{{cite web |title=Private Papers of Colonel R A W Binny |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030006853 |website=Imperial War Museums |language=en}}</ref> when in September 1944 Bernard Charles Hamilton Gerty was posted to the [[2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|2nd Infantry Division]], Binny took over command from him, as Lieutenant-Colonel.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hailes |first1=Walter Leslie |title=The Jat Regiment: A History of the Regiment, 1803-1947 |date=1967 |publisher=Jat Regimental Centre |page=304 |language=en}}</ref>

Following the war, Binny was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in January 1947,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37956|date=16 May 1947|page=2194}}</ref> before retiring in August of the following year and being granted the rank of [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38372|date=3 August 1948|page=4379}}</ref> From 1947 to 1954 he was the manager of [[Dean Park Cricket Ground]], and from 1950 he also acted as General Secretary of [[Hampshire Cricket Club]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Dean Park's New Manager |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005867/19471205/220/0007 |work=Bournemouth Times and Directory |date=5 December 1947|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Col. Binny Resigns |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000290/19541201/178/0014 |work=Portsmouth Evening News |date=1 December 1954|page=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005867/19501229/081/0005 |title=Bournemouth in 1950 |newspaper=Bournemouth Times and Directory |date=29 December 1950|page=5}}</ref> He joined the [[Royal Auxiliary Air Force]] as a [[Flight lieutenant#Usage in the RAF|flight lieutenant]] in Aircraft Control Branch in March 1949.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38643|date=21 June 1949|page=3043|supp=y}}</ref> He was transferred to the Fighter Control Branch in July of the same year,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=39055|date=31 October 1950|page=5430|supp=y}}</ref> before joining the reserve in March 1954.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40169|date=7 May 1954|page=2769|supp=y}}</ref> Binny died at [[Barnstaple]] in May 1979.

==Cricket==
Binny made his debut in [[first-class cricket]] in India for the [[Roshanara Bagh|Roshanara Club]] against the [[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon|Viceroy's XI]] at Delhi in February 1932.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12975/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Ronald Binny|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=3 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He made a second appearance in first-class cricket for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against [[The Rest cricket team|The Rest]] at [[Brabourne Stadium|Bombay]] in the final of the 1940–41 [[Bombay Quadrangular|Bombay Pentangular]].<ref name="FCM"/> In two first-class appearances, Binny scored 15 runs with a highest score of 9, whilst going wicketless from thirteen [[over (cricket)|overs]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/ronald-binny-27046|title=Player profile: Ronald Binny|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=3 November 2023}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=27046}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Binny, Ronald}}
[[Category:1910 births]]
[[Category:1979 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Formby]]
[[Category:People educated at The King's School, Canterbury]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Roshanara Club cricketers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Royal Air Force officers]]

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