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Sunday, August 19, 2012

Quotes on VVS Laxman

"I hope his back's pretty sore for next week as well and he can't play." Ricky Ponting pays a back-handed compliment to Australia's nemesis, VVS Laxman (5 October 2010)

"If you get Dravid, great. If you get Sachin, brilliant. If you get Laxman, it's a miracle." Brett Lee repeats the words of wisdom of his former captain, Steve Waugh (27 Sep 2004)

“Watch him, but don’t try to imitate. Only VVS can play them.” - John Wright to a young batsman

“On his day he could beat even 22 fielders and find the boundary,” - Zaheer Khan

“The greatest innings ever played by an Indian still belongs to him,” remarked Bishan Singh Bedi

'When Laxman bats you just stand at the other end and watch and tell yourself not to get carried away.' - Sachin Tendulkar

 “I just decided I was going to stay there and watch from the non-striker’s end.” - During a 353-run partnership in Australia, Tendulkar (who made 241 in that innings)

 “I enjoyed it from the other end. It was like watching a highlights package.” - Rahul Dravid said of Laxman’s batting during their 376-run partnership in Kolkata which turned a Test match against Australia

“Come and watch this, you will never see the likes of it again.” - Saurav Ganguly

“They dreaded running into this big barrier called Laxman. Our bowlers would talk about avoiding his school in the knockouts fearful of his big scores,” All England Badminton Champion Pullela Gopichand remembers during his school days, of a rival at the fiercely contested inter-school championships in Hyderabad.

“He’s never changed. And if the Indian team’s in trouble, I’ll still search for Laxman to walk out as assurance,” - Pullela Gopichand

"Statutory warning: these stunts have been performed by an expert, please don't try them at home" - Akash Chopra on some of Laxman's shots.

"Jaan boojh ke nahin mara. Hona bol ke mara. Practice kar ne ke liye hona bol ke mara (I did not hit you on purpose. But since this is practice, I had to hit you)." - Laxman to Murali Kartic on the eve of the Ahmedabad Test against Sri Lanka in 2005, after he charged and hit an uncharacteristic drive early on in the nets.

"If Sachin is called the god of cricket, then you, VVS, are the angel we all strive to be." - Murali Kartic

"There is Laxman, so reLAX-MAN" - Vj Subbu after Laxman’s 281 knock

“He [Laxman] rose to the occasion like a backbencher suddenly standing in an important debate and producing a speech so full of gravitas that the government itself took notice.” - Peter Roebuck

“That’s the way I’ve been brought up,” he said. “I have to be nice to people not because I have to be nice, but because that’s the way I am … It’s not wrong to be a nice guy, right?” - Laxman on being nice to everyone.

"VVS draws his own Laxmanrekha!" - Amul

"If Rahul Dravid was ‘The Wall’ of Indian cricket, Sourav Ganguly was the Prince of Kolkata, Sachin Tendulkar - the God of cricket; not a bad way to look at Laxman as not just the Very Very Special, which of course he was, but a bit of a guardian angel, someone who quite remarkably did extremely well in the fourth innings of a Test match." - Rajdeep Sardesai

"Laxman is an all-time great, a legend of the game" - Rajdeep Sardesai

"Laxman proved that you don’t have to behave like a Mike Tyson to deal the killer blow" - Nirmal Shekar on 'The Hindu'

"Think angles- think Laxman" - Gaurav Kalra

'Laxman could potentially play shots on either side of the wicket to any given ball' - Muthiah Muralidharan

'Laxman's cricket is equal perhaps in the sheer viewing pleasure that it offers as Roger Federer's tennis' - Kiran Kumar

"You didn't bowl badly, you just came up against the player who… I think that's the best playing of spin bowling that I have seen." - Ian Chappell to Shane Warne

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