West In­dies and T&T pac­er Ravi Ram­paul wants to play Test crick­et again for the West In­dies and has made him­self avail­able for all forms of the game.

The 30-year-old has one of the bet­ter records amongst the fast bowlers play­ing for the West In­dies cur­rent­ly but has been over­looked by the se­lec­tors since the West In­dies abort­ed tour of In­dia last year.

Good enough to have been cho­sen to play all for­mats of the game for the re­gion­al side, Ram­paul has nabbed 49 Test wick­ets from 18 games at an av­er­age of 34.79. He has al­so tak­en 115 wick­ets from 90 ODIs at an av­er­age of 29.22 and an econ rate of 5.08. He al­so slammed an un­beat­en 82 against the In­di­ans cou­ple sea­son ago. In the T20 for­mat he has 26 wick­ets from 22 match­es at an av­er­age of 26.34 and played a part in the West In­dies win­ning the World T20 ti­tle in 2012.

Speak­ing to the T&T Guardian, the right armer said: "I am still very much in­ter­est­ed in play­ing for the West In­dies team in Test crick­et and this is why I have made my­self avail­able to the T&T Crick­et team for the Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League (PCL) which gets un­der­way in No­vem­ber."

The West In­dies next in­ter­na­tion­al as­sign­ment is against Sri Lan­ka in Sri Lan­ka where they will play two Test match­es, three ODIs and two T20 match­es from Oc­to­ber 1 to No­vem­ber 13. Ram­paul would love to be part of that and is ea­ger to be­gin train­ing with the T&T set up. "We have a fit­ness test very soon for the PCL prepa­ra­tions and I and look­ing for­ward to pass­ing that and play­ing crick­et.

"I am still young and still has a lot of crick­et left in me, so I hope that my bowl­ing will con­tin­ue to ad­dress the se­lec­tors, so that I can get in once again. I am work­ing hard right now in the off sea­son, so hope­ful­ly with a cou­ple of good games I can get back in­to the West In­dies team.

"I am dis­ap­point­ed at not be­ing on the West In­dies team right now and I guess I will have to let my bowl­ing do the talk­ing for me. I am fit at the mo­ment, I have done a lot of work with Ronald Rogers, so hope­ful­ly I will be back in Test crick­et again." (VM)