The end of an era.

Cricket goes in cycles and as you said, Australia are going through that right now. I think India will struggle to replace someone as great as Tendulkar but like Warne and Mcgrath leaving the Aussie team I think you will see both nations strong again. It will take some rebuilding though and a lot of pain for your cricket lovers.

I believe India will have more upcoming great players as they have been having players like Yusuf Pathan and so on, if they had hard time then they will recall back Balaji, Parthiv, Pathan and more.... By retiring of Sachin will make a difference in Indian cricket team. But Indian cricket team is not even that weak that will have to face hard time in future. India will remain first in Cricket. As far as your talking about world cup..ohh yeah baby we got this.

We will miss few great cricketers soon. There are players for india to make a good team , but i dont think no one can replace the god , wall , vvs . These players were revolution of cricket . But i hope players like Kohli,raina,patan,tijay,etc can maintain a good batting line up along with few experienced players and won the matches .

surely we are having good bench strength, but we will not get a player like sachin or dravid or laxman, but we are having some good young talents. yuvraj,raina, virat, rohit all can play good innings so i belive that indian future is in safe hands.

It is true that all three of these great players, Sachin, Dravid and Laxman have got to retire sooner than later and there is certainly going to be vacuum in Indian cricket similar to the one Australia is facing at the moment. Savrav Ganguly therefore therefore stressed in his column to day that all of them should not retire at the same time and I fully agree with him. The retirement of these three greats has to be staggered so that youngsters replacing some of them can get on field encouragement and advice from some of them. Although it is difficult to find exact replacement of these players, there are some talented players who have already started playing with them in tests or in O.D.I.'s. Some of the players come to my mind are, Pujara, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Raina and many others. These players will make India proud in future as they gain experience.

every thing goes through ups and downs. this is true for a person, for a team and even for a country. sachin will retire after the world cup but indian team will gradually learn to play without sachin and i guess the support from sachin will come even after his retirement. just hope for the win in the world cup 2011 starting 19 feb and the future is always a mystery and hope for the best of the INDIAN CRICKET TEAM.

Yes in fact this is a matter of concern for the Indian team. We are going to miss three of the most prolific run scorers in international cricket. It's not just their game that made these three men so much adorable and respected, it's mostly the way they have conducted themselves on and off the field. For them there were no lean patches, for they made failure their stepping stone to success. The way they have handled the adulations in a cricket frenzy country is just beyond comparison. Talking about the bench strength, yes we do have guys who can perform well, but nothing comes out of the blue. It's all a matter of exposure, proper practice and above all the will to succeed. And in the long run these guys are going to make it and make it large. We cannot evaluate a player without making him play as many matches. So I think it's early to talk about budding talents. Let us hope for the best.

some player for vs laxman,rahul dravid not the one days to world cup to not team me.so bcci says 30 player for select player for the world cup chance me.bcci says 15 player for tomorrow is say selected to world cup matches.bcci is rahul dravid, vs laxman are career is finish and bcci says test team playse laxman and rahul dravid to the test team but one days are not come.

ya yor right, players like laxman ,dravid, eventhough i doubt about tendulkar, are at their tail ends of their careers but i think india has a great bunch of fresh and robust blood who can make up more than the loss for team india..