V.V.S.Laxman Biography of Indian Cricketer

This blog is about V.V.S.Laxman
Biography
Full name     Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman
Born     1 November 1974 (age 36)
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Nickname     Very Very Special
Batting style     Right-handed
Bowling style     Right-arm off spin
International information
National side     India
Test debut (cap 209)     20 November 1996 v South Africa
Last Test     21 July 2011 v England
ODI debut (cap 112)     9 April 1998 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI     3 December 2006 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years     Team
1992 – present     Hyderabad
2007, 2009     Lancashire (squad no. 5, 26)
2008 – 2010     Deccan Chargers
2011     Kochi Tuskers Kerala
Career statistics
Competition     Test     ODI     FC     LA
Matches     124     86     255     173
Runs scored     8212     2,338     18,951     5,078
Batting average     47.19     30.76     52.35     34.54
100s/50s     16/54     6/10     53/94     9/28
Top score     281     131     353     131
Balls bowled     324     42     1,835     698
Wickets     2     0     22     8
Bowling average     63.00     –     34.27     68.50
5 wickets in innings     0     0     0     0
10 wickets in match     0     n/a     0     n/a
Best bowling     1/2     0/5     3/11     2/42
Catches/stumpings     124/–     39/–     266/1     74/–
Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman About this sound pronunciation (help·info) (born 1 November 1974, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India), sometimes shortened to Venkatsai Laxman but generally known as V.V.S. Laxman (nicknamed Very Very Special Laxman), is an Indian cricketer. Laxman represents Hyderabad in domestic cricket and has played for Lancashire in English county cricket. Laxman is the great grand nephew of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former President of India. He was the captain of the Deccan Chargers team in the Indian Premier League in its first year before being replaced by Adam Gilchrist for the next year. In 2011,Laxman was awarded with Padma Shri award, India's fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India.

Laxman bats right-handed and occasionally bowls off-spin. He is noted for his superb timing and the ability to hit against the spin, reminiscent of his role model Mohammed Azharuddin. Laxman is particularly noted for the skillful use of his supple wrists, which allow him to flick the ball to various places, but usually through the leg side. This also helps in his catching, and he typically fields in the slips or in a bat pad position.

Laxman is noted most for his batting against Australia, in both tests and one day internationals. As of February 2010, he has scored 6 out of his 16 test hundreds, and 4 out of his 6 ODI hundreds against Australia. He has two double-centuries in tests, both of them against Australia: his personal best of 281 at Kolkata in 2000–01, and 200* at Feroz Shah Kotla in 2008–09.