Darren Gough says he is still confident of making this winter's Ashes tour to Australia.
The England paceman has had three operations on his knee and has barely played this summer.
As a result the England management have arranged for Gough to spend three weeks strengthening his leg at the National Sports Centre at Lilleshall.
And despite his recent difficulties the England paceman believes that he will be fit to face the Aussies.
"I'm confident I'll make the tour, everybody's confident - the surgeons, the physios, the coaches and the selectors," Gough told.
"Obviously there are no guarantees and I'm not going to stand here and say I'll definitely be 100% fit, because I thought I'd have been 100% fit after my first operation.
England batsman Michael Vaughan may need knee surgery ahead of this winter's Ashes tour to Australia, according to reports.
Vaughan has hit three centuries and averaged 73 in six Tests this summer.
The England opener is set to play in the fourth and deciding Test against India at the Oval which starts on Thursday.
But the Daily Express newspaper said Vaughan will discuss the problem with his right knee on Wednesday.
"It's just wear and tear - it might need a clean-out," he said.
Any surgery would almost certainly count Vaughan out of the ICC Champions Trophy, which takes place in Sri Lanka later this month.
United Cricket Board (UCB) chief Gerald Majola had to vigorously defend his board's controversial decision to scrap "quotas" for the national squad when he met parliament's sports committee on Tuesday.
Majola explained that the controversy around quotas arose because of confusion about terminology.
He said the UCB had not used the term quotas, but transformation and representivity targets. Some of these targets had been reached ahead of schedule, hence the decision to remove quotas, and take the UCB affiliates "on trust" to reach transformation targets.
The decision to do away with "quotas" was reached at a conference in July last year by unanimous agreement of all the UCB's affiliate unions.
Black players had objected to being viewed as "quota" players and they want it to be known that they were selected on merit, Majola explained.
He said after the meeting that it had been "good and constructive".
Chairperson of the Sport and Recreation Committee Ruth Bhengu had urged MPs not to "judge" the UCB representatives since the committee would discuss and evaluate the presentation later.