Vvs Laxman

IPL 2013 Preview: Clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad a do-or-die for Kings XI Punjab

Wisden India Staff | Saturday May 11, 2013

Hyderabad, meanwhile, are slightly better placed in the points table with seven wins in 12 matches. But they've just won two away matches, a far cry to four wins from five home matches. That however hasn't played on their minds according to VVS La...

Sunrisers Hyderabad have to put loss against Chennai Super Kings behind: VVS Laxman

Friday May 10, 2013

With 14 points from 12 games, Sunrisers have a good chance to make the knockout stage. A win in Mohali on Saturday will push them closer to the play-offs.

VVS Laxman finds it tough to resist the temptation of playing again

Press Trust of India | Friday May 10, 2013

Many players, who are older than Laxman, such as Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist are part of the ongoing Indian Premier League.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni focuses by humming songs while batting

Press Trust of India | Sunday May 5, 2013

This and several other nuggets about top Indian cricketers such as Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman find a mention in a new book - "Think Like a Champion" - written by Rudi Webster, a former West Indian team manager who worked with the Indian team as a ps...

Sachin Tendulkar says not bothered by retirement opinion of others

Press Trust of India | Thursday April 18, 2013

On the question of the likes of former captains Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid and V V S Laxman giving opinions about him, though not necessarily negative, Tendulkar asked, "You think they were talking wrong things about me?" Some of Tendulkar's ...

Happy to be giving back something to the game, says VVS Laxman

Press Trust of India | Friday April 5, 2013

Laxman says that his experience would help improve the the Sunrisers' youngsters. He also believes Sunrisers team is very balanced with the right mix of experience and youth.

Cheteshwar Pujara far more than Dravid version 2.0

Saurabh Somani | Wednesday March 27, 2013

The season that began with an innings-and-115-run win over New Zealand in Hyderabad, plunged to the depths and then rose again, to leave India with an unexpectedly flattering record of ten Tests played and seven Tests won, with two losses and one ...

Sourav Ganguly challenges India to translate home success abroad

Press Trust of India | Friday March 22, 2013

Observing that teams like England and South Africa perform well both at home and abroad, Ganguly hoped India would also become strong enough in all conditions.

Kotla pitch under scanner after being termed 'third-day' wicket

Press Trust of India | Friday March 22, 2013

Former India mainstay, VVS Laxman, while commentating, described it as "looking like a third-day pitch" and batting should prove more and more difficult as the match progresses. Another former India player, Ravi Shastri said that the Test might be ...

Mohali 2010 - a classic revisited

Saurabh Somani | Thursday March 21, 2013

Every single day, right up until those manically scampered winning leg-byes in the post lunch session on Day 5, was balanced on a knife's edge. For the final 3.2 overs of India's second innings, after Ishant Sharma had become the ninth wicket to f...

From despair to hope - the Indian journey

Suresh Menon | Thursday March 21, 2013

When a team is doing well, nothing succeeds like success. Nothing succeeds like failure too, as the Indians discovered in Australia and their rivals are discovering in India now. The emergence of a bunch of exciting players in one team has to be s...

VVS, Dravid and the Wonder of Eden

R Kaushik | Thursday March 21, 2013

Eden Gardens was to have been Australia's theatre of dreams. Instead, it became their worst nightmare. The Australians were gracious enough to acknowledge that they had been laid asunder by a once-in-a-lifetime performance, but you could see that ...

Decision to drop Virender Sehwag not right: VVS Laxman

Wisden India staff and Agencies | Saturday March 9, 2013

Laxman believes Sehwag should have been given two more matches, including a chance to play in Mohali.

Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman inaugurate cancer treatment centre in Hyderabad

Press Trust of India | Wednesday March 6, 2013

Indian cricket's superstar Sachin Tendulkar inaugurated a cancer research hospital in Hyderabad and former Test stalwart VVS Laxman released a book on gastrointestinal cancer on the occasion on Tuesday.

2nd Test, Day 3: India vs Australia, Statistical highlights

Rajesh Kumar | Monday March 4, 2013

Cheteshwar Pujara got his second double hundred in Tests while Murali Vijay scored his first score over 150 in Tests as India piled on runs trying to bat Australia out of the Hyderabad match.