Batting stalwart and former skipper Rahul Dravid is expected to announce his retirement from international cricket on Friday, according to local media reports.
The 39-year-old
second highest run scorer in test history has scheduled a news
conference in Bangalore with BCCI president N. Srinivasan also in attendance.
Dravid has scored 13,288 runs in 164 tests, including 36 hundreds, and is expected to become the first of India's senior batsmen to retire from the longer format after the team slumped to eight consecutive test defeats away from home.
Critics and fans
have called for Dravid and V.V.S. Laxman (37) to make way for new blood
after India were whitewashed 4-0 in their last two away series in
England and Australia.
The third member of the 'Big Three' Sachin Tendulkar
(38) has struggled for form since reaching his 99th international
century a year ago and at 38, could soon be expected to limit his
participation to test matches only.
Last year, Dravid
retired from the limited overs formats of the game after India's
disastrous tour of England, where the team failed to win a single match.
The stylish
right-hander, one of cricket's most technically sound batsmen, also has
12 hundreds in one-day internationals.
He will continue to play in the lucrative Twenty20 India Premier League, where he will lead Rajasthan Royals, replacing the retired Shane Warne as the captain of the franchise.
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