Former India spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan was recently in the news as he announced that he was retiring from commentary due to “colour discrimination.” However, he has now made a bombshell comment which has stirred up another controversy. He has revealed that he was asked to resume his commentating duties just hours after cremating his brother.
“My elder brother passed away a few years earlier. We finished cremation in the evening, minutes after that, The Director Broadcasting of BCCI called me and said, ‘now that the cremation is over, can you take a flight the next morning to commentate on Ind v Aus Test in Mohali?’. I went,” Sivaramakrishnan wrote on X.
He further added that this was not the first time he continued to do commentary in the middle of a personal loss.
Continued through personal loss
“I sacrificed the mourning and went. My mother passed away when I was doing commentary in Pune. Having done all that, I was subject to whatever I went through,” he added.
He further went on to reveal that the reason behind his retirement from Indian commentary and the person who asked him to resume his duties after his brother’s funeral are the same. However, he has not publicly not named the individual.
Just before the start of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, the 60-year-old also expressed that he was upset that many newcomers were getting a gig, but he was not even told why he had been sidelined. Sivaramakrishnan made his Test debut as a 17-year-old in 1983. He went on to play nine Tests and 16 ODIs till 1987. He picked up 41 wickets in international cricket.
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