It will be strange when he's retired. I was a child when he first played test cricket (as was he!) and he's played so long it almost seems like he's always played.
A great player. Of course, with this news there's loads of nonsense being spouted in the bottom half of the internet, but his record speaks for itself. Over 15000 runs at over 50 and over 50 hundreds. He's even played on long enough to go shit, but still hasn't. He is quite simply a legend. And of course in India, a God...