TE Srinivasan - the Lawrence of Madras
In his blog Stumped , V Ramnarayan writes on TE Srinivasan, another popular character from yesteryears
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
In his blog Stumped, V Ramnarayan writes on TE Srinivasan, another popular character from yesteryears. TE, a stylish attacking batsman, played one Test and two ODIs for India.
Even today, at cricket conversations, people ask me if it is true that TE told Gavaskar during the Australia-New Zealand tour what was wrong with his (Sunil’s) backlift, and if that is what cost him (TE) his career! I find it difficult to believe that even TE was capable of such effrontery or that it could have made any difference to Sunil Gavaskar’s attitude to his cricket. Of course, another story that has done the rounds since that tour, is even more spectacularly funny: that of TE landing in Australia and informing the press, ‘Tell Dennis Lillee TE has arrived!’
Whether either of these stories is true or not, I can confirm that TE successfully riled another Australian fast bowler Rodney Hogg by confronting him on the lawns of a hotel in Hyderabad during a tour game and begging him ‘to please stop bowling flipping off spinners.”
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo