Former Indian cricketer and one of the respected popular cricket commentator Laxman Sivaramakrishnan joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of BJP Tamil Nadu President Dr. L. Murugan and other senior leaders on Wednesday (December 30).
The right arm leg spinner popularly known as Siva is known for his test career. He started his first class career at the age of 16. He scored three centuries when Tamil Nadu won the Ranji trophy in 1987/88.
Siva made his Test debut at St. John’s at the age of 17 years and 118 days and was the youngest Indian Test cricketer till that point of time.
He was named as a players’ representative on the International Cricket Council’s cricket committee.
During the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, he gave his first commentary in Tamil which was broadcast by Star Sports Tamil.