Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
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31 December 1965 Madras, India |
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat (RHB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm leg break and googly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Laxmanan Sivaramakrishnan 
(born 31 December 1965, Madras), popularly known as Siva and LS, is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right arm leg-spinner. Currently Sivaramakrishnan is a cricket commentator serves as one of the players’ representatives on the International Cricket Council’s cricket committee.
Siva first drew attention as a 12-year-old claiming 7 wickets for 2 runs (7/2) in a Madras inter-schools championship game. At fifteen, he was the youngest member of the Under-19 India squad that toured Sri Lanka under Ravi Shastri in 1980. He started his first class career at the age of 16, Siva made an immediate impression. On his debut against Delhi cricket team in the quarter final of the 1981/82 Ranji Trophy, he took 7 for 28 in the second innings, all the wickets coming in a spell of eleven overs. On the weight of this performance, he was selected in the South Zone side to play the West Zone in the Duleep Trophy. After going wicketless in the first innings, he took five in the second, including the wicket of Sunil Gavaskar who padded up a to a googly.
Siva was immediately noticed and picked for the team to tour Pakistan in 1982/83 and later to the West Indies. He had played only three first class matches till then. Siva made his Test debut at St. John's at the age of 17 years and 118 days. He was the youngest Indian Test cricketer till that point of time. He went wicketless but scored 17 runs in the only innings that he played. In 1984, he toured Zimbabwe with the Young India side under Ravi Shastri . Later that year, he bowled himself back to the Indian side taking of 4 for 27 against the visiting English cricket team for the India Under-25.
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