'No choice but to live by decision of higher authority' - Ramdin

Denesh Ramdin, the West Indies wicketkeeper, has said he will have no choice but to accept the selectors' supposed decision to keep him out of the Test squad for the upcoming series against India, and use the regional four-day competition to work his way back to the top. The squad for the four-Test series is yet to be named, but Ramdin had lashed out at new selection committee chairman Courtney Browne on Twitter earlier in the week, saying Browne had told him he is being dropped.

"I haven't felt any pressure for the last three or four years," Ramdin told Jamaican radio station Power FM. "I felt a bit surprised, but I have no choice but to live by the decision of the higher authority. I don't own cricket, and, well, I have to go back to my game in the regional four day-set up and come again."

"It seems like I'm not a senior player who has done well over the years. But I've been down that road before and come back and done very well, so I think the process is easy."

Ramdin, who has scored 2898 runs in 74 Tests, made 59 and 62 in his most recent Test innings in Australia, a series that West Indies lost 2-0. West Indies have not played any Tests since that tour. In their last international assignment, the ODI tri-series last month, Ramdin scored 197 runs at 28.14, with a highest of 91 against Australia in Bridgetown.

Expanding on what Browne supposedly told him, Ramdin said: "The chairman called me and he explained to me I would no longer be in the four Test series coming up against India.

"He said over the past five-six years my averages haven't been where they should be as a Test player so they need someone else to fill that position and do well for the West Indies.

"I'm pretty disappointed with it; any player would be disappointed. That was said to me that I have to get back in the four-day regional set up and score runs again."