Former Indian international cricketer VVS Laxman also serves as a pundit and cricket commentator. In Test cricket, Laxman, a right-handed batsman was renowned for his graceful stroke play, batted in the middle of the order. Laxman is now the head coach of the India Under-19 and India A teams as well as the Head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy (NCA).
Laxman played for Hyderabad in the national cricket league. He participated in county cricket for Lancashire as well. During the first season of the Indian Premier League, he also served as captain of the Deccan Chargers squad. He later joined the Kochi Tuskers squad. Up to 2021, he served as the Sunrisers Hyderabad’s coach. Due to his achievements, he is known as the “God of 4th Innings.”
Laxman is one of the rare players with 100 Test appearances but no One-Day Cricket World Cup experience. Laxman made up for his comparatively sluggish running between the wickets with his stroke play and quick scoring. He earned one of Wisden’s five Cricketers of the Year honours in 2002.
In Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Laxman was born on 1st November 1974. The well-known Vijayawada doctors Dr. Satybhama and Dr. Shantaram are Laxman’s parents. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India’s second president, is the great-grandfather of Laxman.
In the 1992–1993 Ranji Trophy quarterfinal game against Punjab, Laxman made his first-class debut for Hyderabad. In the first inning, he scored a duck, and in the second, he scored 17. The next season, he only appeared in one game for Hyderabad before being benched.
On the strength of his stellar performances for India Under-19s, he was nevertheless selected for the South Zone squad for the 1994–1995 Duleep Trophy, although he did not contribute significantly to the team’s success. Laxman scored two centuries while accumulating 532 runs from five games during the next Ranji Trophy season, averaging 76.
Laxman made his Test debut in 1996 at Ahmedabad against South Africa, scoring fifty runs in the match’s second innings. He earned a call to the Indian team in January 2000 for the tour of Australia. When the other batsmen were having a hard time adjusting to Glenn McGrath’s destructive bowling in the third and final Test match at Sydney, he hit 167.
This was one of the few bright spots for India on an otherwise miserable tour. Despite this victory over an assault that included Shane Warne and McGrath, Laxman reportedly made the decision to return to domestic cricket rather than continue playing as an opener, a position he felt did not fit him. Laxman missed almost a year of the Test team as a result. He
Laxman played 134 test matches and 876 one day matches for India. He scored 8,781 runs in test cricket with 17 centuries and 56 half centuries. In One day Cricket, VVS scored 2,338 runs with 6 centuries and 10 fifties.
Laxman made his retirement from international cricket official on August 18, 2012. He was chosen to participate in the forthcoming New Zealand series, but he decided not to. Instead, he announced that he would play domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League.
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