The Wall retires

[Greenie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/17298741

Dravid looks set to retire from international cricket.

You can keep your Tendulkars, Laras & Punters for me the first name down in my fantasy test team for the last 20 years is The Wall. A player to build a match winning score around. Proper, proper old school test batsman.

Every summer he came to England he never looked like getting out despite his teammates giving it away in English conditions.

And a top bloke as well.

[Victor McDade]

Top man and great player.

Sad to see him go.

Cricket needs more men like Rahul Dravid!!

[Cheib]

Quite surprised he didn't hand on until the England series next winter....shows how important test cricket is in Inida I guess?!?!

Very sorry to see the end of one of the modern greats....have to say when he was interviewed frequently during the series last summer he came across very,very well. Hopefully Sky will snap him up he'd be a superb commentator!

[Victor McDade]

Cheib said:

Quite surprised he didn't hand on until the England series next winter....shows how important test cricket is in Inida I guess?!?!

Don't think its anything to do with Test cricket's importance (because to someone like Dravid he really did value the longer format over the others - unlike some of the younger Indian players and fans) but I think he genuinely feels, at 39, he's no longer good enough and its better to groom a youngster for the future.

He kept on getting clean bowled in Australia and dropped a lot of catches over the past 18 months - get the feeling his reflexes were not quite up to scratch anymore.

[spikeyhead]

Sad to see him go but he's put in some awesome performances over the years.

[Hammer67]

One of the best ever I would say. Unfortunately he spent his career in Sachin`s shadow and never really got the credit he deserved. A proper old school Test batsman of which few remain IMO. Sad to see him go.