The 37-year-old batsman, who formed the core of India's famed middle-order that had Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly, ruled world cricket for more than a decade with his wristy stroke-making.
It was the contribution of this famed quartet that helped India to gradually make progress in Test matches and get to the No 1 in the ICC Test rankings.
He scored 8781 runs with 17 Test centuries with highlight being the epic knock of 281 against Australia where India won the Test match after being made to follow on. He has a Test average of 45.97.
Laxman was not a regular in India's ODI team and played 83 matches for 2338 runs with six centuries.
The most disappointing aspect of his glorious career would be his failure of not playing in any of the four World Cup editions during his career span.
Here is the list of VVS Laxman’s Test tons in international cricket:
Sl no
|
Score
|
Against
|
Ground
|
Date
|
1
|
167
|
Australia
|
Sydney
|
02-Jan-2000
|
2
|
281
|
Australia
|
Kolkata
|
11-Mar-2001
|
3
|
130
|
West Indies
|
Antigua
|
10-May-2002
|
4
|
154*
|
West Indies
|
Kolkata
|
30-Oct-2002
|
5
|
104*
|
New Zealand
|
Mohali
|
16-Oct-2003
|
6
|
148
|
Australia
|
Adelaide
|
12-Dec-2003
|
7
|
1178
|
Australia
|
Sydney
|
02-Jan-2004
|
8
|
140
|
Zimbabwe
|
Bulawayo
|
13-Sep-2005
|
9
|
104
|
Sri Lanka
|
Ahmedabad
|
18-Dec-2005
|
10
|
100
|
West Indies
|
St Kitts
|
22-Jun-2006
|
11
|
112*
|
Pakistan
|
Kolkata
|
30-Nov-2007
|
12
|
109
|
Australia
|
Sydney
|
02-Jan-2010
|
13
|
200*
|
Australia
|
Delhi
|
29-Oct-2008
|
14
|
124*
|
New Zealand
|
Napier
|
26-Mar-2009
|
15
|
143*
|
South Africa
|
Kolkata
|
14-Feb-2010
|
16
|
103*
|
Sri Lanka
|
Colombo
|
03-Aug-2012
|
17
|
176*
|
West Indies
|
Kolkata
|
14-Nov-2011
|
Here is the list of VVS Laxman’s ODI tons in international cricket:
Sl no
|
Score
|
Against
|
Ground
|
Date
|
1
|
101
|
Australia
|
Goa
|
06-Apr-2001
|
2
|
102
|
Australia
|
Gwalior
|
26-Oct-2003
|
3
|
103*
|
Australia
|
Brisbane
|
18-Jan-2004
|
4
|
106*
|
Australia
|
Sydney
|
02-Jan-2004
|
5
|
131
|
Zimbabwe
|
Adelaide
|
24-Jan-2004
|
6
|
107
|
Pakistan
|
Lahore
|
24-Mar-2004
|
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