Retirement plans in Indian squad..!!??

Retirement plans.. this sounds familiar to all of us, but here i am talking about the Indian cricketers who should be planning one or forced to plan one. we have VVS , Dravid The Wall , master blaster SRT, sehwag , Zak,  MSD to name a few. with the recent dip in their(some, not all) forms and the age(yes they are called old at 30+) they are bound to think in this direction. I know it may be a lil too early for some of them but its inevitable. Thats not the only reason for it. With the current young talent emerging in indian domestic leagues and they way they are doing overseas it shud be made convenient to the youngsters to settle into the unfavorable conditions and get some good experience so that they dont get embarrassed when they are thrown a bigger challenge at them. V kohli , Vinay Kumar, Suresh Raina and so on have got good ability and talent but they are constantly failing to deliver overseas, what they have been doing with so much ease in the sub continent.

Pillar of Indian Batting Line up

VVS Laxman

1.VVS Laxman:
                      Yes guys, we all know that VVS has got the least lifetime in the current Indian test squad. We have all seen the bravery acts of him in getting india out of the worst situations and produce a respectable result and sometimes even won the match. Remember the eden garden test against Aussies. Yes such is the caliber of the man i'm talking about. But if you look at his current form he has consistently failed to deliver at the International level. He has been regularly failing to find back his form back, be it the india tour of england or home series against WI or the ongoing Border-Gavaskar trophy. The form dip is not the only reason he has been rated top in this list. The never ending problems due to his back injury is also the reason he is thinking of or being forced to retire as early as possible.It may not be a fair with vvs for BCCI to take any bold step of dropping him from the team, but unless he perform and prove his worth to the team, i think BCCI is bound to take action. According to my gut feeling he'll announce his retirement at the end of the Adelaide test , the forth and last match of the series. With the Indian cricket schedule in mind, yes we are not playing any test match in another 6 months, it will be a good on the part of VVS to retire right now.

2. Rahul "The Wall" Dravid:

Rahul Dravid

                       Rahul Dravid, "The Wall". He is the second in this list and most probably next person to exit after VVS Laxman. He had wonderful 2011 year as a batsmen, even though india suffered humiliations at the hands of England. He has scored around 1200 runs in the last year with 5 hundreds at an incredible average average of around 60. But he failed to continue doing the same down under. as like VVS even he is aged and is in the twilight of his career. He retired from ODI n T20(played only 1 of it anyway) at the end of england tour. but he is expected to do good in test matches till he keeps playing(rather enjoying) it. Having the previous years record to back him he has bought in some more time to stick around play his left out International cricket peacefully. But this is the right time for Dravid to think about his retirement. Even though BCCI has its eye on his retirement it cannot force him into retirement as it can easily do in the case of VVS. But still he will always be in BCCI's RADAR. couple of bad series and he might be packing his backs earlier than he had planned to. India's very infrequent test match schedule in the future also can work out in Dravid's favor since the age has already started to show its signs on him, e might get lot of much needed breaks between series so that he can rejuvenate himself and be ready for the next challenge. Having said all that i cant see him playing him beyond 2012 any more. Max he may retire in first half of 2013. I would love nothing more than to see him bat like the text book definition of batting.


3. Sachin Tendulkar:

Sachin Tendulkar after his famous knock of 200* against
South Africa.

                      As expected the next on this queue is our very own "master blaster", the go of Cricket, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. He enjoys the liberty of not being frowned upon by BCCI for his inconsistency(if any) nor has the worry of his form going down. In the entire of his career(as much as i have seen), he has never let his form go down considerably, except the time he had his injury(The back injury and the infamous Tennis elbow), during which he had get used to much lighter bat than what he used to. Any one on this earth is vulnerable to such changes. But he stuck in there hard and determined and what we see today is pure magic. The way he can tear the opposition into pieces , i hardly see any one in the entire cricketing world doing it for so long time. Having said all that he also one day face the inevitable. He has already reduced playing the ODIs considerably and he never played any T20s after his first one. Talking about Tests he has scored more than 2200 runs in last 2 years at an average of more than 58 which also includes 6 110s. As far as i can see, no body in the world can influence him on his retirement other than him. as said even he has to retire one day and that day might not be very far away. The whole world is speculating him to retire after the much hyped 100th 100. but the way he is playing currently there are no guarantees of this as such. From what i can see he might not play anymore cricket of any for at any level after 2013. Yes he can continue playing cricket as long as he is enjoying it. I would hope that day when he stops enjoying playing cricket might not come at all. As we all know he is the kind of person who gives youngsters much encouragement. But still the team INDIA will be needing him at each and every major competition they enter.