Fourth Ashes Test, Headingley: England v Australia
Dates: Friday, 7 August to Tuesday, 11 August Start time: 1100 BST
Coverage: Live Test Match Special commentary (from 1025 BST on day one, 1045 BST on remaining days) on BBC Radio 4 LW, 5 Live sports extra, the Red Button and BBC Sport website. Live text commentary on BBC Sport website and mobile phones. Also live on Sky Sports.
**Australia fast bowler Brett Lee is confident he will be fit to play in the fourth Ashes Test starting at Headingley on Friday.**Lee has not played in the Ashes after injuring his side in Australia’s warm-up match against England Lions.
“I had a really good bowl on Saturday and got to 80-85% - and there was no pain there,” Lee told BBC Radio 5 Live.
“By Monday I want to be bowling at 100% and make myself available for the fourth Test.”
Lee has been bowling the nets at Edgbaston, building up gradually after initially coming in off two-to-three steps.
“It is going well,” added Lee. "I’m not worried about the way the ball is coming out or my general fitness.
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“I am just worried about the side strain and there is no problem there. So full steam ahead.”
Australia are currently 1-0 down in the five Test series, with fast bowler Mitchell Johnson struggling for form.
Ricky Ponting’s team have also played Peter Siddle, Ben Hilfenhaus and off-spinner Nathan Hauritz in all of the Tests.
Going into the fourth day of the Edgbaston Test, Hilfenhaus had claimed 10 wickets in the series and Hauritz nine while Johnson and Siddle had both taken eight.
With no tour matches between the Tests at Edgbaston and Headingley there will be no meaningful opportunities for Lee to prove his fitness.
“It comes down to maintenance and looking after the body,” added Lee.
"The way it has gone over the last three-to-four weeks, it has been a long, slow process and to sit on the sidelines during an Ashes Test has killed me.
“I’ll make sure I’m ready for the fourth Test.”
England fast bowler Steve Harmison is also hoping to play some part in the series.
“I love playing for England and I do have unfinished business with Australia”
Steve Harmison
The Durham player, who has been in good form this season, was a key member of the team that won the 2005 series - but he was also part of the side that lost the subsequent series 5-0 in Australia.
Harmison bowled the opening delivery of that series, a wide that was taken by Andrew Flintoff at second slip.
And Harmison, who was in the England squad but not selected for the Tests at Lord’s and Edgbaston, said he has “unfinished business” against Australia.
“The truth is that, much as I love playing for Durham, I’m desperate to play against Australia. You can’t overestimate how desperate,” he told the Mail on Sunday.
"I’d have given everything to have played at Lord’s, to be playing now in Birmingham and to play in Leeds.
"I’m champing at the bit again and the way I’m bowling at the minute, I’d be a handful against any opposition.
"I love playing for England and I do have unfinished business with Australia.
“I’ll never forget winning in 2005 but I don’t want my last Ashes memory to be of 2006-07, neither for that first ball, nor the whole experience of losing 5-0.”