perhaps meant the cricketer. But it would be far tougher to find a man like him in the Indian dressing room again. In his retirement the side hasn't merely lost a man who could be counted on to stand up at the toughest times, but also a bit of its character.

His friendship counts among the most cherished rewards of my life as a cricket journalist. The cricketer will be missed, but the man will be around.

Dravid is an absolute legend, he is one of finest, greatest cricketer World have ever produced, 10,000 runs in both Tests and ODIs !!! and he is so humble, gentleman, great ambassador of the game. his technique is best in the world and so is his slip catching, it will be big bootmeasure character, but give me a man of true & tested character - a man who shows the highest degree of integrity has a natural & easy dignity in all that he does, rather than a set of figures! In a decent society a man is not judged by his bank balance, but by the calibre of man he is: one cannot compensate for another. And as India grows to a major world power, choose men of the calibre of Rahul Dravid as the role model in preference to those with monster stats!

Satyajit
on March 12, 2012, 7:35 GMT

One of the true batting greats India produced and would always walk into the all time India eleven without any arguments (In fact all the first four places are easy to