India's chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar favours a reduction in the number of One-day Internationals to ease the stress on players and has questioned the validity of two-Test match series.

India's ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has opted out of the three-Test series in Sri Lanka citing tiredness and fatigue and Vengsarkar believes it was the number of ODIs that was causing the problem.

The former India captain also said playing a two-Test series - like the one against England later this year - does not make sense, preferring three or five-match contests.

"We play around five to seven ODI games on every tour," Vengsarkar told the Hindu.

"This takes away 14 to 20 days. Personally, these two-Test series do not make much sense to me. It should either be three or five."

Vengsarkar also believes that the Indian Premier League, while exciting, had not thrown up fresh talent and the only way to produce talent was to raise the bar on the quality of domestic cricket.

He added: "Twenty20 is an exciting and popular format but tell me five cricketers from the IPL who can play for India?

"A lot of players got exposure but are they good enough to play for India?

"Test cricket will produce players for Twenty20, not the other way round."

The former India skipper said it was necessary for international players to participate in domestic tournaments in order to raise quality, but added that it was an unlikely scenario given the packed international schedule.

"You need international stars to take part in domestic cricket to raise the standard, otherwise it would become very hard to judge quality and temperament for Test cricket," said Vengsarkar.

"But due to a packed calendar, international cricketers have no time for domestic cricket."

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