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Steve Harmison will be given every opportunity to prove he has rediscovered his fear factor when he meets up with England’s Test squad this week.

The 29-year-old Durham fast bowler has spent the past four months in the international wilderness but has been recalled to a 13-man party for the third npower Test against South Africa, which begins at Edgbaston on Wednesday.

Those who have witnessed him at close quarters this summer claim the menace last seen in him a couple of summers ago, when he routed Pakistan at Old Trafford, is back.

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Two indifferent years followed that zenith, which bore match figures of 11 for 76, but he now has the opportunity to make a new start in an England shirt. “The ball is in his court,” said national selector Geoff Miller. “If he bowls well and does the job we ask him to do, then it could be.”

Miller and England captain Michael Vaughan are among those to have been impressed by the alignment of speed and direction in Harmison’s bowling this season.

Having rediscovered the zip he lost on the tour of New Zealand, he has been the most prolific operator in the top division of the County Championship with 40 victims, a statistic which convinced the four-man selection panel it was time for a recall.

“There’s no risk at all,” said Miller. “We wouldn’t have put him in if we thought there was a risk.

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Durham captain Dale Benkenstein is another advocate of his return to the top level.

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Of Yorkshire’s Hoggard, he added: “He’s definitely still part of the England equation.

“He’s still a centrally-contracted player but at the moment in time, when we picked the last Test side he was being out-bowled by Darren Pattinson.”

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Durham fast bowler Harmison, 29, has spent the past four months in the international wilderness, but has been recalled to a 13-man party for the third npower Test against South Africa at Edgbaston.

Those that have witnessed him at close quarters this summer claim the menace last seen in him a couple of summers ago when he routed Pakistan at Old Trafford is back.

Two indifferent years followed that zenith, which bore match figures of 11 for 76, but he now has the opportunity to make a new start in an England shirt.

“The ball is in his court,” said national selector Geoff Miller .

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“There’s no risk at all,” said Miller. “We wouldn’t have put him in if we thought there was a risk.

“We talk to all the players regularly and I have watched him bowl this year and talked to him myself.

“People are now saying he is in a better place than he was, and he now looks like the bowler he was a couple of years ago when he was striking fear into opposition batsmen.”

Durham captain Dale Benkenstein is another advocate of his return to the top level.

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“He’s got great control at the moment, he’s bowling with great pace and I think he’s ready to get back into the Test side.

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There is no guarantee Harmison will be in the XI when play gets under way on Wednesday, but, with England 1-0 down with two matches left, changes were inevitable.

Darren Pattinson, the much-maligned stand-in swing bowler, has been returned to pasture in county cricket, while Stuart Broad’s ineffective summer with the ball could result in his omission.

“It is tough,” said Miller. “Stuart is a young lad and he has done really, really well.

“But at some stage you have to look at the situation, you do not want burnout, and there is a lot of cricket to be played.

“He’s involved in both five-day and one-day cricket and there is lots and lots of that.

“It is a case of nurturing him and making sure we get the best out of him now if possible, but over a longer period of time as well.”

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