The announcement came on Wednesday at a felicitation function for the star goalkeeper.

"There won't be a vacuum. Someone will come in my place, for sure. All the sports are like that. Sachin Tendulkar was there and now there is Virat Kohli, and someone will take his place tomorrow. So, Sreejesh was there yesterday, but someone else will come and take his place tomorrow," the goalkeeping stalwart has said.

Sreejesh, who has played a mammoth of 336 international games, paid his obeisance to the sport, he dearly loved.