Injury ravaged Ryan Harris insists on playing in Indian Premier League Queensland quick Ryan Harris is headed to the IPL. CRICKET Australia's sports science unit will have a nervous breakdown after Ryan Harris insisted he must go to the Indian Premier League to keep up his fast bowling momentum before the Ashes. Harris will jet out on Monday to play for the Kings Punjab XI and the thought of the big-hearted fast bowler with his long injury history heading to the IPL is sure to give CA officials a few more grey hairs. The 33-year-old Queenslander is back to being close to the best bowler in Australia and shapes as a must-have Ashes player if he stays fit. After bowling 143 overs in three Shield matches over the past three weeks, including 54 overs in the gruelling Shield final draw against Tasmania, Harris admits he is exhausted and has painful foot blisters. But he will not hear of not going to the IPL. It has nothing to do with the financial rewards, he insists he is a bowler who simply needs to keep bowling. I have to go to the IPL. I would rather go and bowl and train over there than just sit down," Harris said. If I stop bowling or doing rehab for a week, I struggle to get up and going again. It would take me a month or more to get going strong again. I have to keep going now. I'm pretty lucky the IPL is coming up and I will still be bowling there and still moving. I am not going to have a big break and have to start up again, which would have been tough. Queensland's vanquished Sheffield Shield team flew home to Brisbane yesterday and will today have their Titanic Thursday celebrations to reflect on a fine season in which they won the Ryobi Cup and Big Bash titles. Queensland contracts for next season will be signed in the next few weeks and there will be some nervous batsmen, given the batting order never really fired in the Shield competition. Queensland's fast bowlers were generally fabulous but injuries to Ben Cutting, Alister McDermott and Luke Feldman were major blows. Queensland's bowlers tried their heart out in the Shield final and Harris says youngster Cameron Gannon and allrounder Michael Neser will be better for the experience. "'I know that Gannon and Neser have probably learned a fair bit over the last couple of days because of how the Hobart wicket was and how to bowl on these sorts of wickets," Harris said. We restricted Tasmania's scoring rate to under two for most of the innings. We did the best we could. Harris feels he is back to near his best after taking 7-139 off 54 overs in a huge performance in the final. "Still being able to bowl at reasonable pace in my third and fourth spells and put them in a good spot on a flat pitch was good personally," Harris said. I've got to say I'm pretty exhausted now. It's been a big workload the last few weeks. My feet have been smashed with blisters and hurting quite a bit. Going from nothing (being out of the game) to what I've done in the last few weeks is probably the greatest workload of my life but I just want to keep playing.