vvs laxman Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
vvs laxman is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman
Born
November 01, 1974, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Age
49 years old
Nicknames
Very Very Special
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Education
Little Flower High School, St. John's School
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 134 | 86 | - | 20 |
Inn | 225 | 83 | - | 20 |
Runs | 8781 | 2338 | - | 282 |
Avg | 45.5 | 30.76 | - | 14.84 |
SR | 49.37 | 71.24 | - | 105.62 |
HS | 281 | 131 | - | 52 |
NO | 32 | 7 | - | 1 |
100s | 17 | 6 | - | 0 |
50s | 56 | 10 | - | 1 |
4s | 1135 | 222 | - | 33 |
6s | 5 | 4 | - | 5 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 134 | 86 | - | 20 |
Inn | 13 | 4 | - | - |
Balls | 324 | 42 | - | - |
Runs | 126 | 40 | - | - |
Wkt | 2 | 0 | - | - |
BBI | 2 / 1 | 5 / 0 | - | - |
BBM | 2 / 1 | 5 / 0 | - | - |
Eco | 2.33 | 5.71 | - | - |
Avg | 63.0 | 0.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- India
- Deccan Chargers
- Hyderabad (India)
- Kochi Tuskers Kerala
- Lancashire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
It was a courageous, and ultimately correct decision as the numbers also bear out: Laxman has averaged only 28.54 as an opener, but 48.44 in the middle order.
At his best though, Laxman makes numbers seem almost superfluous, such is the artistry he brings to batting. With the delicate touch of a surgeon, he bisects gaps that fielders never though were there, creates angles that bowlers thought they had cut off, and releases pressure that the opponents thought they had under an air-tight lid.
He has often batted with the lower-middle order and the lower order, thereby being deprived of the chance to build longer innings, but whenever he has been given an opportunity he has flowered.
His record against the best team of his time, Australia, has been outstanding, with most of his masterpieces being conjured against them. He has scored almost double the runs against Australia than he has against any other team.
With a star-studded Indian middle order, and a host of talent waiting in the wings, Laxman has often found his place under question after merely one or two failures, but each time he has responded with an innings of class under pressure. That he has managed to do so successfully for a decade and more was testified by the fact that he joined a select number of players who have played a 100 Test matches for India.
However, Laxman's ODI figures do not do justice to his vast batting talent, though he has never been given the extended run that some less gifted players enjoyed in the shorter format.
When on song, it has not mattered whether Laxman was playing a 5-day, 1-day or 3-hour game -- he has always shredded the bowling to pieces, while never playing an ugly shot. His fielding and running between the wickets were held against him though, and one of the regrets of an outstanding career remains his not being picked for a single World Cup tournament.
The disappointments fade though, when put alongside his achievements. And though he might not have played in a World Cup match, he will always remain the man who played India's greatest ever innings in any form of cricket.
He played for the Deccan Chargers since the inception of the IPL in 2008 till 2010. He was then bought by Kochi Tuskers Kerala in 2011 and never played the IPL since then.
Laxman suffered a dip in form in his final season - the one in 2011/12 - where India were whitewashed in England and Australia. He was picked in the squad for the subsequent home Tests against New Zealand, but surprisingly announced his retirement even without playing the first Test in Hyderabad - his home city.
He then became a TV commentator apart from being the mentor of IPL franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad.
The Indian Government honoured him with the Padma Shri award in 2011 and was also named one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year in 2002.
by Cricbuzz Staff
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
At his sublime best, VVS Laxman is a sight for the gods. Wristy, willowy and sinuous, he can match - sometimes even better - Tendulkar for strokeplay. His on-side game is comparable to his idol Azharuddin's, yet he is decidedly more assured on the off side and has the rare gift of being able to hit the same ball to either side. The Australians, who have suffered more than most, paid the highest compliment after India's 2003-04 tour Down Under by admitting they did not know where to bowl to him. Laxman, a one-time medical student, finally showed signs of coming to terms with his considerable gifts in March 2001, as he tormented Steve Waugh's thought-to-be-invincible Australians with a majestic 281 to stand the Kolkata Test on its head. But even though he had another wonderful series against the Australians in 2003-04 with two centuries, one of them involving a back-from-the-dead, match-winning, 300-plus partnership with Kolkata ally Rahul Dravid at Adelaide, he hasn't quite managed the consistency that could have turned him into a batting great. Between dazzling and sometimes workmanlike hundreds, he has suffered the frustration of numerous twenties and thirties and has lost his place in the one-day side. Nothing, though, has deterred him from tormenting his favourite opponents with silken strokes and piles of runs: in the course of the double-hundred at Feroz Shah Kotla in 2008, he became the second Indian batsman after Tendulkar to score more than 2000 runs against the Australians. A couple of years later, batting with a runner due to back spasms, he conjured up a magical unbeaten 73 in a thrilling run-chase in Mohali.
However, in 2011 the runs dried up in two successive overseas trips - in eight innings in England he scored 182, and then the poor run continued in his favourite country and against his favourite opponent, Australia. With India losing those matches badly, his future as an international player was suddenly under threat.
There were calls from former players and commentators questioning Laxman's selection for the two-Test home series against New Zealand in August 2012. On August 18, though, less than a week before the series was to begin in his hometown Hyderabad, Laxman announced his retirement from international cricket with immediate effect, resisting the temptation to end his career in front of his home crowd.
Sambit Bal