VVS Laxman birthday: Great-grandson of President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who could not play the World Cup despite a brilliant career

VVS Laxman birthday: Currently, the World Cup is going on in the country. India is moving towards its third title. Rohit Ko & Co. remain the only unbeaten team in the tournament after winning six consecutive matches in the league round. His brilliant career was never selected for the World Cup team. We are talking about VVS Laxman. Who celebrated his 49th birthday yesterday, Laxman, born on 1 November 1974 in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, comes from a highly educated family. Very few people know that Laxman is the great-grandson of the country’s second President Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

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Played 134 Test and 86 ODI matches for India

Both the parents of VVS Laxman are doctors. He himself was very fast in his studies. Laxman was also studying medicine but later decided to leave medicine and become a cricketer. Despite his brilliant career, he could not play even a single World Cup for India. Played 134 Test and 86 ODI matches for India, in which he scored 8781 and 2338 runs respectively. But every time due to some reason he had to lose his place in the World Cup team.

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Laxman played his first Test match in 1996 and his first One Day International in 1998

VVS Laxman, who played his first first-class match in 1992, was the lifeblood of the Indian middle order. You will be interested to know that Laxman was out on zero in his first-class debut. He could not open his account even in his first ODI. His memorable innings of 281 runs played against Australia at Eden Gardens in 2001 is the story of the golden journey in the history of Indian cricket. Then India won the match by playing follow on. VVS Laxman’s bat used to score a lot of runs against Australia, he was also given the title of Very Very Special by former Australian captain Ian Chappell.