I would like to announce my retirement from international and domestic first-class cricket. It is 16 years since I played my first Test match for India and today I feel it is an time to move on. Once I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling
In press conference announcing retirement from Test cricket, quoted in "After 16 yrs, Rahul Wall Dravid retires from intl cricket "in Indian Express (Indianexpress.com)