KENT fast bowler Amjad Khan is continuing his long haul back to fitness from surgery to reconstruct his right knee.

In December Khan travelled to India for a three-week training camp with the England Performance Squad in Chennai then, after spending Christmas at home with his family in Denmark, returned to the former city of Madras for a Dennis Lillee fast bowling camp that lasted two weeks.

Since then, the 27-year-old strike bowler has spent most weeks training in Loughborough at the ECB performance centre for four days each week, returning to his home in Canterbury only at weekends in the fight to regain full fitness.

Khan said: "It's been a busy schedule with lots of long journeys on planes and hauling up and down the motorway to Loughborough but it's got to be done.

"India is a nice place to be in terms of cricket and it is good to feel the sun on your back, you can't beat getting outside to train in the heat rather than battling on in the cold in England.

"In terms of fitness I seem to be about 80 to 90 per cent there now. I bowled five, six or eight overs every day when in India.

"Now it's about getting into competition mode and getting miles of work back into the legs so that I'm 100 per cent ready for my first game.

"I don't dare give myself a comeback date. Pre-season training will be the key to everything."