Harris out for six to eight weeks Injury-prone Ashes hero Ryan Harris faces a race against time to be fit for the return series against England in Australia after being ruled out of action for six to eight weeks with his hamstring injury. Harris got the bad news when he had the injury assessed after arriving back in Brisbane on Thursday. Australia's leading wicket-taker in England, Harris suffered the injury during the fifth Test draw at The Oval. Arriving home on Thursday he was hopeful he would be declared fit to fly out for India in a fortnight for the Champions League Twenty20 tournament. However a Cricket Australia statement released on Thursday evening revealed a grimmer picture with scans ruling him out for six to eight weeks, which could mean a return late October - just weeks before the first Ashes Test at the Gabba starting on November 21. Earlier Harris warned that any ideas of fighting fire with fire by juicing up Australian wickets this summer could backfire against England. The 33-year-old's injury-troubled body had held together for four straight Tests for the first time in his stop-start career as he took 24 wickets at 20 apiece to be his team's player of the series. Harris found pace, swing, seam and bounce in all conditions as English curators served up dryer-than-usual pitches that suited match-winning spinner Graeme Swann and the reverse swing of Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad. There's been consistent calls for local groundsmen to doctor greentops to suit the swing and seam of Harris, Peter Siddle and Mitchell Starc and rip through the English top-order. Harris has never played a Test at his Brisbane home ground at the Gabba and savoured the thought of "a lot of grass," but didn't want local curators to overdo it. "The problem there is that their bowling attack is pretty good," he said. You can't really. If we make our wickets like we normally do there will be enough grass on them and enough in them (to trouble England). Bowling at our best the batters are going to find it hard to score. We contained Cook really well at the start and if he doesn't get runs they really sh** themselves. Showing his heightened popularity, Harris was mobbed by a representative schoolboy rugby team when he flew into Brisbane Airport on Thursday morning.