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Harmison, 29, was sent for an assessment on the final morning of England's first-class fixture with a Sri Lanka Cricket Board President's XI, having suffered a back spasm on Sunday while bowling.

He is scheduled to swim in a bid to ease the discomfort and has been pencilled in to bowl in the nets at Kandy on Thursday.

However, there appears to be little chance Harmison will be considered for the first Test which begins on Saturday, having sent down only 10.3 overs in the current match at the Nondescripts Cricket Club.

He was playing in this match in a bid to prove his form and fitness after missing the last couple of months of the domestic season with a muscular tear in his back.

After sending down half-a-dozen overs in England's first match of this tour, Harmison, no longer an automatic pick at international level, said: "In the past we still had bowlers knocking on the door, but I went through a long period of not being injured.

"Now I can't get rid of an injury without another one cropping up. I need to spend some time on the park, and if I do that and bowl properly, I feel I'm as good as anyone in England.

"When I'm not bowling that well, and coming back all the time, then there are better bowlers than me."