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Corey Collymore is still ranked the 11th best bowler in international cricket but Sussex's new signing has admitted: "My Test career is over."

Collymore has joined the county on a one-year contract and makes his Championship debut against Somerset tomorrow.

Because he has signed as a Kolpak, Collymore has effectively turned his back on the West Indies, for whom he has played 30 Tests and 84 one-day internationals.

Mind you, after the Ryan Harris fiasco Sussex supporters are entitled to be cautious. A month ago, Harris pledged his future to English cricket but left after playing just one match when he was offered a fat contract by Queensland.

Collymore said: "I definitely think my international career is over, I don't think I'm going to get back into the team now."

The Bajan played in last summer's series in England and took 11 wickets, but at Lord's, while Matt Prior was launching his Test career with a hundred, a future team-mate was contemplating the end of his.

"I wasn't at my best," admitted Collymore. "I had flu during the first Test and was under the weather but I didn't feel right about other things too and I told the captain (Ramnaresh Sarwan) that."

4:52pm Tuesday 13th May 2008

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