Will there be another wall?

After 16 years The Wall decided to move on. After a long a time he became the three ageing Indian cricketer, besides Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman. He decided this after India’s disastrous tour of Australia.

Dravid had already announced his retirement ODI in England last year after been surprisingly recalled in the ODI team due to his stupenous performance during the test series in England in which he scored three centuries.


BANGALORE: These following is the text of Rahul Dravid's statement, announcing his retirement from international cricket, on Friday at the Chinnaswamy stadium:

I would like to announce my retirement from international and domestic first-class cricket. It has been 16 years since I first played a Test match for India, and I feel it's time for me to move on. Once I was like every other boy in India.


with a dream of playing for my country. ndian cricket team even further.Yet, I could never
have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling. I have had a wonderful time, but now it
is time for a new generation of young players to make their own history and take the India
n cricket team further.


Rahul Dravid’s retirement opens up the debate on who should occupy the No. 3 slot in the Indian team that he occupied for more than a 12 years. Some of them are in the list  but none has done enough to make the decision easy for the selectors.

The front-runner is obviously Virat Kohli, the young Delhi batsman who improved so much on India’s recent ill-fated tour of Australia.Other claimants to the one-drop position are Ajinkya Rahane, Manoj Tiwary, Cheteshwar Pujara and V. V. S. Laxman. Of these, the first two are yet to play in Tests and are likely to be tried in positions before they get the pivotal No. 3 slot.Sachin Tendulkar, could have been a logical choice for No. 3 given his ability to defend or force the pace. But his form over the past year has been so poor that his inclusion in the side is now a matter of hot debate.