CC, hahahahaha...same here. i do like him. he is a great batsman, no doubt. ideally i would want all the good players to play forever. but it's not possible. oh how i wished wasim akram to play as much as i wanted. but ke garne...i would love to see steve waugh thrashing SA bowlers again and again. i would love to see viv richards smash bowlers all over the park. but, everything ends, that's life! so we better accept this bitter fact. it would be better to see sachin off while he's got some juice than to see him getting clean bowled regularly by mediocre bowlers. flips, dravid will be around for at least a couple of years. and relatively less experienced people like kaif and yuvraj are having enough international exposure. so indian team won't be marred too badly even if sachin retires right away. raazstone, it's not about any particular team. it's about CRICKET. the discussion applies to every team, be it india, aus or nepal. LooTe