She was initially denied admission to the Jamshedpur Women's College in 1986 due to her "terribly poor marks" in 10th board examinations.
She received a call-up to the Rest of India team on her wedding day but chose to take a sabbatical from cricket.
She returned to cricket with the South Central Railways team and helped them win the inter-Railways title for the first time in 1995.
She was selected in the squad for the India women's national cricket team's tour of England in 1999, but did not play a single match.
Lakshmi issued her first Code-of-Conduct penalty in a match between UP and Bengal in the under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy.
[13] In September 2024 she was named as part of an all-female officiating group for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.