KENT quick bowler Martin Saggers will know within a week whether he is destined to be part of England's 2003 Cricket World Cup campaign.

Next Tuesday the England and Wales Cricket Board name their final 15 to contest the event that starts in Cape Town on Sunday, February 9.

Though named in England's preliminary 30-man Cup party, Saggers returns to Johannesburg after Christmas to play for club side Randburg while hoping an England call will alter his plans and his life.

"I get frustrated by all the talk," said the 30-year-old from Kings Lynn. "The closer you get the more you want it and the harder it becomes to wait. I'm starting to feel the next phone call could be the one to tell me some good news and I feel I've done everything in my powers to sway the selectors.

"I've taken 200 wickets in three seasons for Kent and I've been in South Africa this winter keeping fit and taking wickets.

"Maybe I could have gone to Australia and played for a club side out there, but you can't go following England around the world thinking they'll call on you just because you're in the country."

"They should select on ability and performance over the last few seasons. Surely that should count for something?"