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VVS Laxman

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Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman (; born 1 November 1974) is an Indian former international cricketer and a former cricket commentator and pundit. A right-handed batsman known for his elegant stroke play, Laxman played as a middle-order batsman in Test cricket and is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of test cricket. Laxman is currently the Head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy (NCA), and the head coach of the India Under-19 and India A teams. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of VVS Laxman has received more than 1,694,510 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. VVS Laxman is the 47th most popular cricketer (down from 32nd in 2019), the 1,429th most popular biography from India (down from 1,226th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Indian Cricketer.

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Among CRICKETERS

Among cricketers, VVS Laxman ranks 47 out of 136. Before him are Shakib Al Hasan, Tony Greig, Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh, Inzamam-ul-Haq, and Shikhar Dhawan. After him are Glenn Maxwell, K. L. Rahul, Adam Gilchrist, Shoaib Akhtar, Suresh Raina, and Javagal Srinath.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, VVS Laxman ranks 966. Before him are Lourdes Benedicto, Seo Dong-myung, Adam Korol, Andrei Mezin, Benoît Salmon, and Matt Berry. After him are Chucky Atkins, Sonali Kulkarni, Tina Križan, Satoshi Yashiro, DeLisha Milton-Jones, and Mitsutoshi Tsushima.

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In India

Among people born in India, VVS Laxman ranks 1,429 out of 1,861. Before him are Indraneil Sengupta (1974), Aadesh Shrivastava (1964), Shikhar Dhawan (1985), Isha Koppikar (1976), Anju Bobby George (1977), and R Vaishali (2001). After him are Sonali Kulkarni (1974), Arvind Swamy (1970), Sakshi Tanwar (1973), Ketan Mehta (1952), Siddharth (1979), and Anupama Deshpande (1953).

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Among CRICKETERS In India

Among cricketers born in India, VVS Laxman ranks 19. Before him are Syed Kirmani (1949), Virender Sehwag (1978), Diana Edulji (1956), Yuvraj Singh (1981), Mohammed Shami (1990), and Shikhar Dhawan (1985). After him are K. L. Rahul (1992), Suresh Raina (1986), Javagal Srinath (1969), Hardik Pandya (1993), Ravichandran Ashwin (1986), and Jasprit Bumrah (1993).

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