​At­tack­ing T&T Red Force open­er Evin Lewis has de­clared him­self avail­able for West In­dies Test se­lec­tion. The Marchin Pa­tri­ots play­er will make his first ap­pear­ance for the Red Force in First-Class crick­et in nine years when they face the Lee­ward Is­lands in a three-match se­ries in An­tigua, start­ing Sun­day (April 12).

Un­veil­ing the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, as the "Home of the Red Force," Lewis said he’s ready to wear the whites.

"I'm avail­able, to be hon­est. I've al­ways thought about play­ing Test crick­et. I think now is the per­fect op­por­tu­ni­ty to go there, ex­e­cute, have some fun, and en­joy my crick­et," said Lewis.

​Lewis en­joyed a pro­lif­ic sea­son for Marchin Pa­tri­ots in the T&T Crick­et Board Pre­mier Di­vi­sion One, scor­ing 655 runs, in­clud­ing a run of three con­sec­u­tive cen­turies and a dou­ble hun­dred (232 not out) against Mer­ry­boys. The 34-year-old has com­piled 2,279 One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) runs at an av­er­age of 36.75 and 1,799 T20 runs at 29.01, and he hopes to add Test fig­ures to his lim­it­ed-overs record.

For now, Lewis is fo­cused on im­me­di­ate goals with the Red Force.

“I'm go­ing to take it one step at a time. Most im­por­tant­ly, I want to have a good tour­na­ment to ac­tu­al­ly put a lit­tle more pres­sure on the se­lec­tors as well,” he said.

He is al­so men­tor­ing younger play­ers across his teams—Marchin Pa­tri­ots, St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots and the Red Force.

“When­ev­er you step on the field, al­ways give your best and nev­er give the se­lec­tors a chance to drop you,” Lewis ad­vised.

"Sat­ur­day and Sun­day (club crick­et) is the work. It's a job we are do­ing and some­thing we love and en­joy. So you al­ways have to give 100% whether you're on the field or off the field."

Lewis and the Red Force trav­el to An­tigua to­mor­row.