During his victorious speech in the Indian Premier League RCB, Virt Kohli said that the feeling of victory in the tournament was five levels under the feeling of playing the test cricket. While the comment found extensive admiration from cricket fanatics, the Fan in All-Rounder did not find Andre Russell West Indies.
Russell, who has made an inheritance across the T20 league in the world, said that crickets from India, Australia and England are receiving a lot of money for the test cricket, which will not happen in West India. Russell claimed that if West Indian players were paid the same money as the top cricket paid for a test cricket, they would also love format.
“I think when you’re from India, Australia, England, places where they take care of your test players, it’s completely different from being from Western India,” Russell Guardian said in an interview.
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“These guys (India, Australia and England) receive lucrative central contracts to play test cricket and playing at the biggest stages, of course they want to play. Western Indians? Could you play 50 or 100 tests and know that there is nothing to show after retirement.
But Russell said he believed in the red ball format and said he was an eager observer of the game. Russell said he did not regret as a professional cricket that the test cricket was not part of his journey, but pointed out that it was not him who turned his back.
“I believe in a test cricket, but at the end of the day I am a professional. It was not part of my journey. I have no regrets because it was not me who turned my back,” Russell said.
“I was basically pushed out of the test settings. They saw me more like a white ball player and that was it,” he added.
All-Rounder is currently in England, where West Indies receives England in a series of three matches. Both teams build for the T20 2026 World Cup, which will be played in India and Sri Lanka.
Published:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published on:
June 7, 2025
