Retirement for big five ?

Came across this article on cricinfo . Wonderfully written, and close to heart - I too agreed with the writer on almost every account.

It really hurts to see the media bragging and biting - at the same time, the likes of Ganguly, Kumble, Dravid, Laxman and Tendulkar. All about the past, and present, and their current ineffectiveness and so on and so on... They have been players of such stature, they deserve being talked about respectfully, all the time, no matter who is the critic or journalist or audience. How can we be so selfish to deny them their such hard earned respect? The truth remains that some day they have to retire, let it be chosen by them, by their performance - the media people speculating all over and discussing only this thing ahead of the Australia series is very disheartening.

I am looking forward to the Australia series, not for Dhoni or Harbhajan or Ishant Sharma - but for the big five. And whether they perform or not is their destiny, but they will surely have audience like me watching and praying for them. May god bless them with the courage to face a selfish nation's unfaithful and misguided cynics.