V.V.S LAXMAN

Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman

Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman was born on 1 November 1974, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, at times condensed to Venkatsai Laxman but normally recognized as V.V.S. Laxman (epithet Very Very Special Laxman), is an Indian cricketer. Laxman characterized Hyderabad in home cricket and has played for Lancashire in English county cricket. Laxman is said to be the immense grand nephew of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, ex- President of India. He was the skipper of the Deccan Chargers side in the Indian Premier League in its first year before being reinstated by Adam Gilchrist for the next year. In 2011, Laxman was awarded with Padma Shri award, India's fourth utmost civilian award from the Government of India.

Laxman bats right-handed and sporadically bowls off-spin. He is noted for his excellent timing and the skill to strike beside the spin, evocative of his role model Mohammed Azharuddin. Laxman is mostly noted for the adroit use of his limber wrists, which allow him to flip the ball to diverse places, but habitually all the way through the leg side. This also helps in his transmittable, and he usually fields in the glides or in a bat pad point.

Laxman is noted most for his batting in opposition to Australia, in both tests and one day internationals. As of February 2010, he has attained 6 out of his 16 test hundreds and 4 out of his 6 ODI hundreds in opposition to Australia. He has two double-centuries in tests, both of them in opposition to Australia: his individual best of 281 at Kolkata in 200001, and 200* at Feroz Shah Kotla in 200809.

Laxman's blood relations father Shantaram and mother Satyabhama, are doctors. Laxman premeditated at Little Flower High School, Hyderabad. He then joined as a medical student but chose cricket over a profession in medicine. He married G. R. Sailaja originated from Guntur, who is a post-graduate in computer applications, on 16 February 2004.

Style

Laxman is notorious for his "wristy, willowy and graceful" style, one which is "a sight for the Gods" at its most excellent.

Career

VVS Laxman - Career Laxman made his Test first appearance in 1996, scoring a fifty in opposition to South Africa at Ahmedabad. On the other hand, he was unable to make stronger his place in a scintillating Indian middle order. As an alternative, he was asked to unwrap the innings, starting in South Africa in 1997. Laxman sporadically continued in this function for nearly three years, but devoid of any unswerving accomplishment. In January 2000, he made 167 in opposition to Australia at Sydney, an exceptional high point for India in an otherwise grievous tour. In spite of this triumph adjacent to an attack containing Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne, Laxman in fact decided that he would return to home cricket, rather than prolong playing as opener; a role which he alleged did not outfit him. As a consequence, Laxman was out of the Test squad for nearly a year. He was recalled in behind 2000, and also found a speck in the side for the home sequence in opposition to Australia in 2001. Laxman is a slow runner stuck between wickets and he is one of the few players who have played 100 Tests but have by no means played in the Cricket World Cup.

Return to form

In December 2005, Laxman helped India to triumph in opposition to Sri Lanka with a superior century. In June 2006, Laxman again rescued India from a difficult position in opposition to the West Indies with a gritty century. In November 2006, he was elected in the test crew for India's tour of South Africa. In the first test in Johannesburg Laxman scored 73 in the second innings to help India claim a remarkable 123 run win. In the 2007 trip of England Laxman produced three good innings, two of which were half-centuries and a critical 39 that helped India depict the first test at Lords. He passed the 5000 run landmark in the first day of the last trial.
Subsequent to the tests he joined Lancashire as their abroad player in place of Brad Hodge. He played in five games of the county championship and showed hints of his awe-inspiring batting. In their ending County Championship game of 2007, in opposition to Surrey at the Oval, Laxman scored a century in the second innings which Lancashire were chasing 489 to win. They just missed out by 25 runs and afterward lost the Championship to Sussex. His presentation for Lancashire was good with 380 runs scored in 5 matches at a standard of 54.28 with 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries.

In India's home series in opposition to Pakistan in 2007, V.V.S. Laxman once again showed his importance to the squad with a regimented batting show in the 1st Test. He then pursued that innings of 72 in the first test with 112 in the second test. This guaranteed his place on the visit of Australia which would be his 3rd to that country.

Laxman was thought to replace Adam Voges for Nottinghamshire but this move was disallowed by the BCCI due to the verity that there are players from the challenger Indian Cricket League playing for Nottinghamshire. Laxman also accomplished 6000 runs in the Sri Lankan succession in August 2008.

During the Third Test in opposition to Australia at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi in November 2008, Laxman gained an unbeaten 200 in the first innings with trait use of his wrists and taps through the leg side. In the identical innings, Gautam Gambhir scored 206, Laxman and Gambhir becoming the first pair of batsmen to achieve double-centuries in the similar innings for India, and the first to do so in opposition to Australia. He made a victorious 59 in the second innings and was named man of the game.

In 2009, Laxman persists to be in top form. He had attained 76 and 124 in the 2nd Test at Napier in New Zealand. In 2010, in a Test game in opposition to South Africa held in Kolkata, he scored 143 in a record position for the seventh wicket with MS Dhoni. He passed 7000 Test runs all through the innings. The test was ultimately won by India in the last 10 minutes of the match, which helped India draw the series and remain the world Number 1 team.

Laxman helped India to level the progression with Sri Lanka in August 2010 when he hit 103 not out in the run-chase, resulting in a five-wicket win in the Third Test. He was granted the Man of the Match.

In October, he once more turned around another game that appeared headed for a contented Australian triumph, in the First Test in Mohali. Laxman was suffering with a back problem and required Suresh Raina as his runner, and the Indians had malformed to 124/8 in quest of 216. He and paceman Ishant Sharma put on 81 to take the score to 205 before Sharma fell. Final man Pragyan Ojha then directed to endure as the hosts accomplished a one-wicket win. Laxman wrecked on 73 not out. He also helped India convalesce from 15/5 in opposition to New Zealand in Ahmedabad in 2010 and the game was drawn. Once all over again he helped India to a significant win at Durban. India was besieged at 94-5 when he and M.S. Dhoni put on a modest partnership. He played extremely with the tail to help India get a lead of 302. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning 96.

Key Attributes

Laxman is a right handed batsman and is renowned for hitting twist bowlers ruthlessly and manipulation the ball with sufficient use of his wrists to the preferred corner of the position. Entertainingly, Laxman has delivered his finest concert for a greatest number of times in opposition to the Australian Cricket squad both in Test and ODI matches.

Vital Statistics

The opening of Laxmans Test Cricket career was made in the year 1996 with a Test contest in opposition to South Africa played at Ahmedabad. Ever since the year 1997, he had to vary his point in the batting line-up and began to release the innings now.

In a Cricket trip of Australia in January 2000, he scored 167 runs. He established the opening point in the batting line-up not being flattering to him, so he gave up international cricket and returned to domestic cricket again. He stayed out of the Test side for almost a year, and joined over again in the later stage of the year 2000. Laxman is not considered to be moderately a good runner stuck between the wickets, and has not played in the Cricket World Cup in spite of having played 100 Test matches.

All the way through his Test Cricket career till now, V.V.S. Laxman has played 105 Test contests and attained 6741 runs including 14 centuries and 39 half-centuries. He had a Batting standard of 45.24 runs with his highest score being 281 runs.

In his One Day International (ODI) Cricket career, Laxman played 86 matches and achieved a total of 2338 runs including 6 centuries and 10 half-centuries. His ODI Batting standard was 30.76 runs, with the highest gain being 131 runs.

In the Test Match succession played in opposition to New Zealand in March-April 2009, V.V.S. Laxman scored a total of 295 runs in the chain, with 30, 200 and 65 runs scored in the 3 matches correspondingly.

Amusingly he made his entrance in One Day International (ODI) Cricket with a duck (zero score) in a match in opposition to Zimbabwe in the year 1998, and completed his ODI career again with a duck in a game in opposition to South Africa in the year 2006.

Achievements

• His innings of 281 in opposition to Australia in 2001 was ordered sixth in Wisden's list of 100 great Test innings in the past.
• Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2002

Vangipurappu Vekata Sai Laxman, prevalently known as V.V.S. (Very Very Special) Laxman by his fans, is an Indian Cricket performer. Apart from the Indian Test and One Day International Cricket squads, he has symbolized Hyderabad and Lancashire sides and leaded the Deccan Charges squad in the IPL Twenty-20 competition 2008.