Stuart Binny has justified his selection: Dravid

NEW DELHI: Former India captain Rahul Dravid urged the ICC to thoroughly investigate the Ravindra Jadeja-Jimmy Anderson controversy on Wednesday.
"I actually hadn't heard about it. I read it in the newspapers. I think the ICC is investigating the matter. The allegations are pretty serious and they need to be investigated," Dravid told TOI in a telephonic conversation on Wednesday.
Dravid, however, refused to connect this incident with the previous ones (referring to the jelly-bean incident involving Zaheer Khan and the England team in 2007) and said, "They are two different incidents and I would not like to connect them."
Stuart Binny's selection has led to a debate, drawing criticism from various experts. However, Dravid is of the view that Binny has justified his selection.
"Well, I think he has definitely justified his selection with the bat and I thought he batted really well. It's never easy to bat when you're under that kind of pressure in your first game, and I thought he played really well. It wasn't a wicket for his kind of bowling, so I'm not that concerned. I think if the conditions suit his kind of bowling, then you will see he can bowl a lot better and he will be quite effective," said Dravid. India's opening pair of Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan was not able to provide India with a solid start but again Dravid is not worried. "As a pair, the openers have not had a big partnership. They got off to a good start in the first Test but somehow Dhawan could not make it count. Vijay played really well and I am happy for him. He has worked very hard and he certainly deserved the century . It was a good from the Indian perspective."
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