VVS Laxman announced retirement from international cricket with immediate effect

By Admin
vvs-laxman

India veteran batsman VVS Laxman has announced his retirement from 16yr of international cricket with immediate effect.

So, He will not play the Test series against New Zealand that starts from August 23 in Hyderabad.

VVS Laxman: I have tried to give my best while maintaining dignity.

The 37yr old VVS Laxman started his career in 1996 against South Africa and has amassed a total of 134 Tests scoring 8781 runs, including 17 centuries and 56 fifties. In 86 ODIs for India he has got 2338 runs with 6 centuries.

VVS Laxman announced retirement from international cricket  with immediate effect

Related Links: 
VVS Laxman Carrier Statistics 
New Zealand Tour of India schedule and Fixtures
New Zealand Squad for India Tour - 2012
India Test Squad v New Zealand Series

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

List of Sachin Tendulkar's 110 Teammates

By Admin
Image
As the longest serving and illustrious cricketer of modern times — 199 Tests in 24 years of Test cricket — Sachin Tendulkar has had the pleasure of having more teammates than any of his contemporaries such as Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and Brian Lara. (Also Read:  Sachin Tendulkar's 200 facts ) Tendulkar made his debut at the age of 16 against Pakistan and hence held a six-year lead over the Australian Ponting and South African Kallis and almost a seven-year lead against fellow Indian middle order batsman Dravid. He began his international career one year before Lara. Set to play his 200th and farewell Test at the Wankhede Stadium from Thursday, Tendulkar added two more teammates in Mumbai’s Rohit Sharma and Bengal’s Mohammad Shami who were capped against the West Indies last week at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata. This took his teammates tally to 110 teammates, one behind England’s Frank Woolley (111 in 64 Tests) and seven behind England’s Graham Gooch (118...
Read more

Sachin Tendulkar's Ranji Trophy Career at a glance

By Admin
Image
Sachin Tendulkar in Ranji Trophy Performance in each match Start Date Opponents Venue Batting Bowling Fielding 10-12-1988 Gujarat Mumbai WS 100* 17-12-1988 Saurashtra Rajkot 58 & 89 31-12-1988 Baroda Thana 17 0-11 14-01-1989 Maharashtra Aurangabad 81 & 4* 03-02-1989 Hyderabad Secunderabad 59 & 15 17-02-1989 Uttar Pradesh Mumbai WS 7 & 75 03-03-1989 Delhi Mumbai WS 78 0-12 & 0-20 1 ct 02-02-1991 Madhya Pradesh Indore 69 dnb & 0-7 1 ct 16-04-1991 Delhi Delhi 82 & 125 0-4 & 0-36 24-04-1991 Hyderabad Mumbai WS 70 & 88 0-65 & 0-9 1 ct 03-05-1991 Haryana Mumbai WS 47 & 96 0-23 1 ct 01-12-1993 Baroda Vadodara GSF 50 1 ct 08-12-1993 Maharashtra Thana 138 0-13 1 ct 24-12-1993 Gujarat Ahmedabad 13 dnb & 0-18 2 cts 31-12-1993 Saurashtra Mumbai WS 12 & 80* 0-12...
Read more

RCB vs PWI - M31 Report & Stats: IPL 2013

By Admin
Image
Match Report: Not since the inaugural game of the IPL in 2008 has an innings as brutal as what was depicted at the Chinnaswamy Stadium been experienced in the history of T20 and certainly not in the IPL.  In that contest, six years ago, Kiwi Brendon McCullum, opening for KKR thrashed the RCB bowlers mercilessly to post 158.  But on Tuesday evening, the terms ‘brutality’ or ‘pulverising’ lost their meaning and became understatements as Chris Gayle launched into the Pune Warriors India bowlers, cracking the fastest century in the history of T20 cricket, his 100 taking just 30 deliveries, as RCB, who posted a mammoth 263, carved out a huge 130-run victory at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on Tuesday.  Virat Kohli and Aron Finch during toss of match 31 of the Pepsi Indian Premier League between The Royal Challengers Bangalore and The Pune Warriors India held at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on the 23rd April 2013 The carnage did not end there as the big...
Read more