Jones delivers England warning

Worcestershire new-boy Simon Jones today delivered a warning to England's new-look pace attack by declaring: 'I want my place back'.

Jones checked in at New Road yesterday after quitting his home county, Glamorgan, in favour of a two-year contract with the Pears.

And the 2005 Ashes winner set his sights immediately on winning back his international place after two years of injury hell.

Jones is confident he can convince the selectors to pick him again despite the emergence of Stuart Broad and Ryan Sidebottom and the return to form of James Anderson.

"A lot of people ask me about international ambitions and I've still got them," said Jones.

"Once you get a taste for international cricket you never lose that hunger.

"You can ask any person who has played for England and they still want to play.

"It is now a matter of me taking some wickets next year and hopefully knocking on the door.

"Because it was stop-start last season I was fit but I wasn't 'bowling fit'.

"I'm the kind of bowler that needs to bowl a lot to get some rhythm going.

"This season I don't see any reason why injuries would be a problem and I'm raring to go. This is the change I needed."

Jones is hoping the conditions at New Road, traditionally conducive to seam and swing bowling, will help him rediscover the form that made him an integral member of England's victorious Ashes side.