Harmy: Twenty20 cash doesn't appeal - I just want Test berth back

The Durham paceman called time on his limited-overs career with England in 2006 and has vowed to put all his energies into trying to regain his Test spot.

Appeal: But Harmison is not lured by the finances of the Twenty20 game

Harmison told BBC Radio Five Live's Sportsweek programme: "I just want to get back in the England team, that's the main thing for me.

"I made a decision, more on family reasons, why I stopped playing one-day cricket. I've got four small children now and the amount of time cricketers spend away from home is ridiculous to be honest.

"I might have played my last one-day game but I enjoy playing Test cricket, I love playing Test cricket and that's what I stopped playing one-day cricket for and it's up to me to try to get back in that Test team."

Harmison, 29, has begun the county season in good form, taking 41 wickets in 14 games for Durham including a hat-trick against Sussex.

But he acknowledges he faces an uphill task to dislodge any of England's in-form pace attack.

"I think I'll always be knocking on the door because of what I can do when I'm fully fit and doing things properly," he continued.

"Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad, Ryan Sidebottom, they're in possession of the shirts and they're doing a fantastic job so it doesn't matter what me, Matthew Hoggard, Chris Tremlett, people like that are doing.

"At the end of the day, it's going to take something to shift them because the lads are doing well. All I can do is perform."

Twenty20 cricket has attracted all the attention this year with the Indian Premier League followed by the announcement of a lucrative game between England and a West Indies All Stars XI in Antigua in November, backed by billionaire Sir Allen Stanford.

Some figures within the game have voiced fears about the impact of Twenty20 on other forms of the game but Harmison has welcomed the extra focus on cricket.

"Anything that's raising the profile of cricket has got to be good for the game, irrespective of the money that's involved," he said.

"What's happening now is people are talking about the game. Now people are looking at Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff rather than (England football stars) Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen.

"I think this is just the start, it's only going to get bigger and bigger."