da roleta： Newly appointed chairman of selectors Brijesh Patel will try to persuadeJavagal Srinath out of retirement
da dobrowin： CricInfo20-Sep-2002Newly appointed chairman of selectors Brijesh Patel will try to persuadeJavagal Srinath out of retirement.India take on West Indies in a three Test and seven one-day series at homesoon after the ICC Champions Trophy and Patel wants Srinath to reconsiderhis decision to retire from Test cricket..Patel said: “I will definitely be speaking to Srinath about playing Testmatches again.””The new ball attack is a bit of a worry,” said Patel.Patel, as secretary of the Karnataka State Cricket Association, has tried tomake Srinath reconsider before.Srinath has repeatedly claimed that the strain of playing Test cricket wastoo much for him and that he would prefer to concentrate on the shorterversion of the game in the lead up to the forthcoming World Cup in SouthAfrica.The 33-year-old Karnataka mediumpacer hung up his boots after India’s tourof West Indies, where he was visibly flagging at the end of five Tests.Since then Srinath has been ignored by the selectors for the one-dayers.Whether the revamped selection committee can persuade the mediumpacer,currently playing for Leicestershire in the English county circuit, toreturn to the game remains to be seen. Only two days ago Srinath scalpedfour wickets in seven balls including a hat-trick against champions Surrey.Indian captain Sourav Ganguly has often said that he wanted Srinath tore-consider his position and return to the side.
