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Vvs laxman biography: the master of sublime batting.

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What is the full name of VVS Laxman? Most probable answer is Very Very Special Laxman. Yes, the player holds the quality of being a special cricketer for Indian contingent. No doubt, Laxman was always the one to rescue India out of trouble. Green pitches , seaming surroundings, swinging deliveries and half the team back in the pavilion. Who do you turn to? Cometh the hour, cometh the man; VVS Laxman. But this may be hard to digest: He may have been less popular than the likes of Sachin Tendulkar , Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly but was certainly a valuable player. In fact, he is one of those rare players to feature in 100 Tests but not in a single World Cup. Here’s a look at the VVS Laxman biography.

VVS Laxman was known for his skill to play graceful shots against top bowling and fielding sides of world cricket. Several of Laxman’s crucial innings fetched victory for the Men in Blue out of nowhere, especially against the Australian team. Today, let us take a stroll at VVS Laxman biography.

About VVS Laxman

Vvs laxman biography.

Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman was born on November 1, 1974 in Andhra Pradesh. Both of his parents are doctors and he too studied Medical Science for a short period of time but quit it later to play professional cricket. He went to the Little Flower High School, Hyderabad for his preliminary education.

Laxman was born to V Shantaram and V Satyabhama. In 2004, Laxman tied knot with a computer science post-graduate, GR Sailaja. She is a very social person who has opened charity where she supports underprivileged kids. They have a happy marriage and have two kids namely a son, Sarvajit and a daughter, Achinthya. Laxman also has a brother named VVS Ramakrishna.

Domestic Cricket

Laxman made his first-class debut for Hyderabad against Punjab in the quarter-final match of 1992–93 Ranji Trophy. He made his way into the South Zone squad for the 1994/95 Duleep Trophy having impressed for the India Under-19s. However, he failed to live up to the expectations in the tournament. In the same year, Laxman notched up 532 runs from five matches at an average of 76 in Ranji Trophy.

That was followed by another brilliant outing in the Ranji season next year, where he piled up as much as 775 runs in just 11 innings. Those numbers had arrived at an average of 86 which also included 3 centuries and a best of 203* against Karnataka. With superb performance, he received a call to play for Rest of India against Karnataka in Irani Cup and also in the Board President’s XI squad.

During the last County Championship match of 2007 at the Oval, VVS Laxman achieved a century in the second innings as Lancashire pursued a target of 489 for victory. Despite falling short by a mere 25 runs, Lancashire ultimately lost the Championship to Sussex.

International career

With stellar domestic performance, Laxman grabbed eyes of selection committee. VVS at last made his international Test debut in 1996 in the match against South Africa at Ahmedabad. VVS was also asked to open the innings, starting in West Indies in 1997. He went on to score 64 in his first innings as an opener at Kingston.

Though he was selected in the Test squad that toured New Zealand in 1998, he did not get to play a single game. Later, he was selected to don ODI jersey but Laxman scored a duck on his ODI debut against Zimbabwe in the Pepsi Tri-Series in 1998. He had a horrible run in the ODIs as a result, he was him getting dropped from the team for more than a year.

In January 2000, VVS Laxman made a comeback to the Indian squad for the Australian tour. While other batsmen struggled against Glenn McGrath’s formidable bowling, Laxman shone by scoring an impressive 167 in the final Test at Sydney. His excellent performance carried forward to the 2007-08 Test series against Australia, where he played a crucial role in India’s comeback. In the controversial Sydney Test, Laxman scored a magnificent 109, marking his 12th Test century and 5th against Australia.

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In the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia that year, VVS Laxman showcased his exceptional skills, amassing 381 runs across 4 Tests. His impressive performance included a remarkable double-hundred and two fifties. Additionally, during India’s tour of West Indies in June 2011, Laxman displayed remarkable consistency, scoring three consecutive fifties in three test matches, including two scores in the eighties against the West Indies. Laxman announced his retirement from international cricket in August 2012.

VVS Laxman was named India’s interim head coach for Asia Cup 2022 in the absence of Rahul Dravid, who tested positive for Covid-19.

VVS Laxman in IPL

Laxman was originally named as the icon player for his home franchise Deccan Chargers in the inaugural season of Indian Premier League ( IPL ). But the humble man gave up the Icon Player status in a bid to allow his team spends a bigger amount at the auction. The Deccan named him the captain for the first season. However, he struggled with the bat in 2009 and 2010.

In 2011, Laxman signed the contract with newly formed franchise of Kochi Tuskers Kerala. This time, though, he was injured after the first three games and missed the rest of the season. In 2012, Laxman, found no buyers. In 2013, he was appointed as a mentor for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Subsequently, he engaged in extensive commentary duties during IPL matches.

According to Cric Reads, VVS Laxman has estimated net worth of 100 crores. He has a good fortune by playing cricket for long time, doing commentary and endorsing various brands. He was a brand ambassador for PETA and Swachh Bharat.

VVS Laxman Career Stats

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Achievements and Awards of VVS Laxman

• For his extraordinary contribution to Indian cricket, VVS Laxman was awarded with Padma Shri in 2011.
• He has been awarded with Arjuna Award, by the Government of India in 2001.
• Laxman was the Wisden Cricketer of the Year (2002).
• Laxman is also only the 2nd Indian player to have scored 1000 or more runs at a single ground. He scored 1217 runs at an average of 110.63 at Eden gardens.
• Moreover, VVS is also the only Indian to score 1000 runs in a single venue at an average of over 100.
• He has his autobiography titled ‘281 and Beyond’, written by seasoned sports writer R Kaushik.

Lesser Known Facts

• VVS has a presidential connection as being the great grandson of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India’s second President.
• He was a brilliant student and scored 98% in Science in Class X.
• One can call him a man of simple taste. He loves his South Indian-style ‘rasam’ and is a strict vegetarian.
• VVS along with his uncle once launched a CD on Sai Baba encompassing his teachings and philosophies.
• He has participated in several charitable causes, one being Food for Change, where he partook for the charity event of educating 2 lakh students.

Social Media

It was great to interact with the participants of the High Performance Camp for Under -19 Girls at NCA. These future stars of Indian Womens cricket got the opportunity to hear from one of the modern day greats of the Womens game. I would like to thank Harmanpreet Kaur for being… https://t.co/13r0jhxxaI — VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) June 16, 2023

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within. The only way out is In. Wishing you a very happy #InternationalDayofYoga , India’s gift to the world. pic.twitter.com/czPfOpJAtJ — VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) June 20, 2023

"Hearty congratulations to the India A team. This is a tremendous achievement by these women to win the Emerging Asia Cup considering that many of them were playing a tournament at the international level for the first time! Yet another shot in the arm for Indian Women's Cricket… pic.twitter.com/jKbaCeZPlF — VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) June 21, 2023

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VVS Laxman: A batsman of ‘captivating splendour’ – Almanack

VVS Laxman was the key architect of India’s historic win over Australia in Kolkata in 2001, striking an iconic 281 to help the hosts break Australia’s incredible winning run. Dicky Rutnagur paid tribute to him when he was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2002.

For two reasons at least, the second Test of the 2000/01 series between India and Australia, at Eden Gardens, will stand out among the most prominent landmarks in the game’s history. India’s win brought to an end Australia’s awesome run of 16 wins, the longest ever, and no side following on as far behind as 274 runs had previously come back to win a Test match.

Victory against such heavy odds was too large a feat to be accomplished by just one man. Indeed, three architects went into shaping it: off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, whose 13 wickets included a first-innings hat-trick, VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid. To weigh importance of the roles played by each of them might seem unfair, but in truth India owed the largest debt to Laxman. First, he kept the jaws of defeat wrenched apart until they ached and became too weak to snap; and secondly, he scored his epic 281 in the second innings at a rate that left enough time for Harbhajan and his fellow-bowlers to finish the job.

Laxman’s Eden Gardens knock was a record-breaking one

The first Test at Mumbai had been won by Australia in three days. And when India were 317 behind with only two wickets standing at the end of the second day in Kolkata, the prospects of another premature finish were writ large. Laxman was 26 not out that evening. He was unbeaten also – albeit now in the second innings – on the following evening, and again on the one after, this time with 275, the highest Test score by an Indian. By then, it was India whose nostrils were filled with the scent of victory. Haste required by the impending declaration deprived Laxman of further personal glory, but his partnership of 376 with Dravid was India’s largest for any wicket against Australia, and their second-highest ever.

Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman was born on November 1, 1974 in Hyderabad, to parents who are both doctors – his father a general practitioner and his mother a radiologist. It was taken for granted that Laxman, like almost all members of his near family, would take up a profession that required academic excellence, and he was therefore sent to an appropriate school, Little Flower. His father was Laxman’s role model and he always assumed he would become a doctor as well. But medicine receded into stand-by mode once he fell under cricket’s spell.

Yet with sport not figuring in Little Flower’s curriculum, Laxman’s talent could easily have remained latent. It was spotted by a cricket-playing uncle during family games in his grandparents’ back yard. Having learnt the basics from this uncle, he then went to St John’s Coaching Foundation for more advanced tutoring, and from there graduated to playing age-group cricket for Hyderabad, beginning with the Under-13s.

As Laxman approached his 18th birthday, his head and his heart were both telling him that his future lay in cricket. The defining moment arrived when he had to choose between exams for entrance to medical school, or a place at an Under-19 national coaching camp. Looking back to that fateful day, he said: “I decided to give myself four years to make it in cricket, knowing that if I didn’t, I could always go for medicine. My parents must have had many misgivings about my decision, but they gave me their fullest support.”

He did not have to wait long to reassure his parents that he had chosen wisely. Already a full state player, he was picked for India in an Under-19 Test series against Australia, who had Jason Gillespie, Brett Lee, Matthew Nicholson and Andrew Symonds in their ranks. He made four big scores against them, with 151 not out his best, giving early evidence of his taste for Australian bowling (his average against Australia is currently 56.00). A call to full colours was only a matter of time, and while he waited he had an extremely successful Under-19 tour of England. He began the “Test” series with a century on a blissful Taunton pitch.

Laxman gets under a Glenn McGrath bumper

As Laxman grew to full strength, tall and elegant, and big scores became more frequent, his batting acquired a captivating splendour. His driving possessed a Dexterian majesty and his flicked drive through mid-wicket stirred the senses. He was capped in 1996/97, a winter in which India played home-and-away series against South Africa, followed by five Tests in the West Indies. Laxman played eight Tests during this span and passed 50 three times. Indeed, he was given a fair run, but without being allowed a secure place in the batting order; in the Caribbean, he found himself opening, a role for which he had no taste.

His Test career went into a trough and might well have ended on the Australian tour of 1999/2000, when India were whitewashed 0-3. But in his final innings there, at Sydney, he hit a sumptuous 167 out of a total of 261, from only 198 balls. It was, one thought at the time, the sort of innings a batsman plays once in a lifetime. And so it seemed it would be when he was dropped after India’s Mumbai defeat by South Africa not quite two months later. His volume of runs in that season’s Ranji Trophy, a record 1,415 with a record eight hundreds, might almost have been mocking him. In Hyderabad’s semi-final against Karnataka, he made 353, his fourth score at the time over 200.

Laxman achieved little in his one Test when Zimbabwe visited, or for that matter in the first Test against the Australians. That Sydney century seemed a long time ago. But promoted to his favourite No.3 position for the second innings at Eden Gardens, he bettered it handsomely, sustaining his brilliance for ten and a half hours, during which he faced 452 balls. Half-centuries in both innings of the final Test helped India take the series 2-1; they also took his aggregate for the three matches to 503 at an average of 83.83. Medicine would just have to wait a while longer for VVS Laxman.

Laxman played his 134th and final Test in January 2012, finishing his international career with 17 Test centuries.

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• Full Name Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman
• Date of Birth 01 November 1974
• Birthplace Hyderabad
• Batting Style Right Handed Bat
• Bowling Style Right-Arm Off Spin

Career Debuts

• ODI Debut 09 April 1998
• Test Debut 20 November 1996

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The most graceful of India’s ‘Fab Four’ batsmen at the time, VVS Laxman always had a mean streak when facing Australia. 

His Test average is close to 10 runs better than his career mark of 46 whenever he faces a Baggy Green.

The most memorable of those innings was his 281 in Kolkata in 2001, which turned the match and the series, and ended Australia’s record-breaking winning streak. He also breezed to an unbeaten 200 in Delhi in 2008.

Laxman finished his international career with 17 Test centuries, 56 Test fifties, as well as, six hundreds and 10 fifties in ODIs.

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Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman (; born 1 November 1974) is a former Indian international cricketer and a former cricket commentator and pundit. A right-hand batsman known for his elegant stroke play, Laxman played as a middle-order batsman in Test cricket. Laxman is currently the Head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy (NCA), and the head coach of the India Under-19 and India A teams . Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of VVS Laxman has received more than 1,486,194 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia . VVS Laxman is the 47th most popular cricketer (down from 32nd in 2019) , the 1,427th most popular biography from India (down from 1,226th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Indian Cricketer .

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Over the past year VVS Laxman has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 362,247 views, followed by Hindi (15,150) , and Telugu (4,027) . In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bhojpuri (567.82%) , Western Punjabi (53.27%) , and Odia (50.33%)

Among CRICKETERS

Among cricketers , VVS Laxman ranks 47 out of 136 .  Before him are Shakib Al Hasan , Tony Greig , Ricky Ponting , Steve Waugh , Inzamam-ul-Haq , and Shikhar Dhawan . After him are Glenn Maxwell , K. L. Rahul , Adam Gilchrist , Shoaib Akhtar , Suresh Raina , and Javagal Srinath .

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Among people born in 1974 , VVS Laxman ranks 964 .  Before him are Lourdes Benedicto , Seo Dong-myung , Adam Korol , Andrei Mezin , Benoît Salmon , and Matt Berry . After him are Chucky Atkins , Sonali Kulkarni , Tina Križan , Satoshi Yashiro , DeLisha Milton-Jones , and Mitsutoshi Tsushima .

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Among people born in India , VVS Laxman ranks 1,427 out of 1,861 .  Before him are Indraneil Sengupta (1974) , Aadesh Shrivastava (1964) , Shikhar Dhawan (1985) , Isha Koppikar (1976) , Anju Bobby George (1977) , and R Vaishali (2001) . After him are Sonali Kulkarni (1974) , Arvind Swamy (1970) , Sakshi Tanwar (1973) , Ketan Mehta (1952) , Siddharth (1979) , and Anupama Deshpande (1953) .

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Among cricketers born in India , VVS Laxman ranks 19 .  Before him are Syed Kirmani (1949) , Virender Sehwag (1978) , Diana Edulji (1956) , Yuvraj Singh (1981) , Mohammed Shami (1990) , and Shikhar Dhawan (1985) . After him are K. L. Rahul (1992) , Suresh Raina (1986) , Javagal Srinath (1969) , Hardik Pandya (1993) , Ravichandran Ashwin (1986) , and Jasprit Bumrah (1993) .

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