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)