Former Indian cricketer, VVS Laxman earned the nickname “Very Very Special” Laxman for some of his heroic exploits for the Indian team during his playing days. While he is mostly known for playing out some match-winning knocks with the bat, Laxman was also an excellent fielder and took some great catches in his playing days.

One of those catches came at second slip during a match against Zimbabwe in the 2004 VB series. Zimbabwe batsman Travis Friend tried to drive the Indian fast bowler, Ajit Agarkar but got a thick outside edge that flew fast to Laxman’s right. Laxman showed great reflex to fling himself to grab a low, one-handed diving catch. 

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Retweeting a video of the catch uploaded on Twitter, Laxman wrote “Has to be the best catch I took in my career.” Here is the video of VVS Laxman’s ‘very very special’ catch here:

Has to be the best catch I took in my career. https://t.co/QCV0SWBcLy

— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) February 10, 2021

Commenting on the video one of the Twitter users wrote: “You and Rahul sir at slips were assurance of safety!” “You are being hard on yourself. You were certainly one of the best ever in slips, and this was one of your best,” wrote another. “Hyderabadis always had safe hands in the slip be it @azharflicks (Mohammed Azharuddin) or @VVSLaxman281,” commented another.

VVS Laxman was the star of the match, as he had played a phenomenal knock of 131 runs off 138 deliveries helped India post a total of 280/7.

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Laxman also took another catch, as Zimbabwe came pretty close to chasing down the difficult looking target. Stuart Carlisle and Sean Irvine both scored tons, but Zimbabwe fell four runs short of the target and India won a narrow encounter. Laxman hanged his boots from international cricket in 2012.