His decision will end a career that started at Lord's in 1996, when Dravid made 95. Since then, he has been a pillar of the Indian Test side and played 93 consecutive Tests from his debut to December 2005. He will finish with 13,288 Test runs - behind only Tendulkar - in 164 matches, with 36 hundreds at an average of 52.31. He also has 210 catches, a Test record, in addition to 196 catches in ODIs. He has already retired from one-day and Twenty20 cricket.