Laxman Sivaramakrishnan retires from BCCI commentary, says he was never given toss or presentation duties due to discrimination

[vvvslaxman]

3 hours ago, jf1gp_1 said:

India as a society is obsessed with light skin so not surprised by what he is saying. I do however recollect him making a few post march presentation. 

To be honest even in ICF he was called oily rat. 

[Ultimate_Game]

With all due respect to Sivaramakrishnan, he wasn't that good and I wouldn't send him out for toss as well. He simply didn't have the charisma or flair to do so. It would be similar to Athar Ali Khan being sent out for toss. Likes of Gavaskar and Shastri were way better for toss and presesntations.

[Tillu]

And why is he making all these revelations after retirement. Nobody is clean. Everybody is an opportunist.

 

 

[diga]

Is he contesting TN elections ? Seems he is after some publicity 

[Stan AF]

12 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Just watch Gill fans trolling of Sanju even after world cup win

 It is purely based on looks.

 

Slowman Gill fans can STFU.

 

He's never ever ever getting into the Indian T20I team again. His days in the ODI team are also numbered.

[Sean Bradley]

Nothing to do with the colour, for Toss especially you need high energy and big boiestorous voice, which unfortunately something he lacked. I dont see any foul play here. 

[Vk1]

17 hours ago, kosingh said:

Is this guy popular among South Indian cricket fans? 

nobody knows him maybe except few in TN

[bsriharsha]

Dk is popular enough and he's a tamilian.

 

Lsrk just sucked pretty bad as a commentator 

[vvvslaxman]

Now his comments about Ashwin has resurfaced again lol. Ashwin actually handled the situation much better. Although these two probably live few miles away from each other in chennai look at the spitefulness from him

 

https://www.news18.com/explainers/how-ashwins-reaction-to-laxman-sivaramakrishnans-commentary-exit-opened-a-can-of-worms-9989395.html

[Lord]

19 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

To be honest even in ICF he was called oily rat. 

We abuse everyone equally. No discrimination there.

[vvvslaxman]

2 minutes ago, Lord said:

We abuse everyone equally. No discrimination there.

True. When you compared to guys like Kambli and many others he had a decent career. 

[rangeelaraja]

58 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Now his comments about Ashwin has resurfaced again lol. Ashwin actually handled the situation much better. Although these two probably live few miles away from each other in chennai look at the spitefulness from him

 

https://www.news18.com/explainers/how-ashwins-reaction-to-laxman-sivaramakrishnans-commentary-exit-opened-a-can-of-worms-9989395.html

 

LS  needs some serious self introspection. He is fully responsible for ruining his own playing career - could not handle the fame stemming from the 1985 World Championship, became a drunkard and womaniser and cut short his own career. 

 

BCCI did a huge favor by giving him a fresh lease of life - both his commentary and personality are boring, dull and severely bore the listeners. 

Nor is his analysis any good. He should be grateful for the opporunities he got for SO LONG despite sucking at his job.

 

He bad mouths Ashwin, undermines Ashwin's achievements and then carries a sense of entitlement that Ashwin should take his call because he is a former cricketer. 

 

Despicable person is LS. 

[RajBan]

Well. That a bang average commentator like LSK got so many years is itself a testimony of ecosystem being biased. Another is Manjrekar who played because of quota and was in commentary panel because of quota as well.

[vvvslaxman]

31 minutes ago, RajBan said:

Well. That a bang average commentator like LSK got so many years is itself a testimony of ecosystem being biased. Another is Manjrekar who played because of quota and was in commentary panel because of quota as well.

 

We are stuck between devil and deep sea. One radio commentator still thinking he is doing radio commentary and these Ex-cricketers, BCCI chamchas.

[putrevus]

He was one of the worst commentators, he had no insight.He should be thanking his lucky stars that he survived for so long because of his India cements connection .

[nevada]

18 hours ago, putrevus said:

He was one of the worst commentators, he had no insight.He should be thanking his lucky stars that he survived for so long because of his India cements connection .

Also, unlike Shastri who has street cred due to a decent India career, coach and captain experience, Siva lacks all that and had a reputation as a drunkard in his playing days. I thought him getting commentary job for so long was actually a very good second innings in cricket for him. Not sure what he is so sore about. Less fortunate former cricketers like Maninder Singh will gladly take the kind of commentary career Siva has enjoyed. 

[putrevus]

13 hours ago, nevada said:

Also, unlike Shastri who has street cred due to a decent India career, coach and captain experience, Siva lacks all that and had a reputation as a drunkard in his playing days. I thought him getting commentary job for so long was actually a very good second innings in cricket for him. Not sure what he is so sore about. Less fortunate former cricketers like Maninder Singh will gladly take the kind of commentary career Siva has enjoyed. 

He was down and out.His international career lasted for two minutes. He was done by the time he was 21 .India cements and Srinivassan who was his god father gave him second life an dhe surivived so long only due to his godfather.He is whining instead of being thankful.

 

Without his god father Srinivassan he would be nowhere.

 

This moron in past has criticized even Ashwin and his bowling.Downplaying Ashwin's 100th test.

 

Maninder struggled in international cricket but was a fighter who ended with 600 plus FC wickets.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 23 by putrevus

[vvvslaxman]

Damn Elon musk. We could have recreated the scene of L Siva doing the toss.

[gattaca]

On 3/22/2026 at 8:53 AM, putrevus said:

He was one of the worst commentators, he had no insight.He should be thanking his lucky stars that he survived for so long because of his India cements connection .

Ravi’s shastri , gavaskar, murali karthik , siddhu and Akash chopra all are terrible. If they can get a gig so should LSRK

[gattaca]

On 3/21/2026 at 4:58 PM, vvvslaxman said:

Now his comments about Ashwin has resurfaced again lol. Ashwin actually handled the situation much better. Although these two probably live few miles away from each other in chennai look at the spitefulness from him

 

https://www.news18.com/explainers/how-ashwins-reaction-to-laxman-sivaramakrishnans-commentary-exit-opened-a-can-of-worms-9989395.html

But he is right about doctored wickets. Nathan Lyon out bowled Ashwin. Moen Ali out bowled Ashwin. Imran tahir out bowled Ashwin. I am specifically stating this was in SENA where he was out bowed because he was expecting too much assistance from the wicket. Jadeja was playing as main spinner because Ashwin was ineffective 

Edited March 23 by gattaca