Ashes bowling hero Ryan Harris has warned that any ideas of fighting fire with fire by juicing up Australian wickets this summer could backfire against England.

Back home to a star’s reception following the 3-0 series loss, Harris is hungry for the return Ashes battle at home and determined to play all five Tests.

The 33-year-old’s injury-troubled body held together for four straight Tests for the first time in his stop-start career as he took 24 wickets at 20 apiece to be his team’s player of the series.

Harris found pace, swing, seam and bounce in all conditions as English curators served up dryer-than-usual pitches that suited match-winning spinner Graeme Swann and the reverse swing of Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad.

There’s been consistent calls for local groundsmen to doctor greentops to suit the swing and seam of Harris, Peter Siddle and Mitchell Starc and rip through the English top-order.

Harris has never played a Test at his Brisbane home ground at the Gabba and savoured the thought of “a lot of grass”, but didn’t want local curators to overdo it.

“The problem there is that their bowling attack is pretty good,” he said. “You can’t really.

“If we make our wickets like we normally do there will be enough grass on them and enough in them (to trouble England).

“Bowling at our best the batters are going to find it hard to score.

“We contained Cook really well at the start and if he doesn’t get runs they really sh** themselves.”

Showing his heightened popularity, Harris was mobbed by a representative schoolboy rugby team when he flew into Brisbane Airport on Thursday morning.

Despite a hamstring twinge in the last day of the final Test, he hopes he can be flying back out for India in a fortnight for the Champions League Twenty20 tournament.

Harris pleaded not to be kept in cotton wool but fully accepts Cricket Australia are likely to take a cautious approach with his body before the home Ashes series, starting in November.

The Queensland quick underwent scans on his hamstring on Thursday afternoon but believes he’d be fit to play with Brisbane Heat, and thinks it would be best to keep him in top form.

“I’m confident it’s not major, I barely felt it,” he said.

“There’s been discussions as to whether I should be going due to injury concerns.

“I can’t argue with (Cricket Australia) because my history doesn’t back me up.

“But I need to have a certain amount of bowling under my belt (to perform).

“I’ve told them from the start I want to go. I want to play a Champions League and I want to play as much cricket as possible.”

As much as he loved producing on the big stage, Harris remains gutted by the series defeat and is eying revenge.

“I enjoyed playing every moment out there,” he said. “Bar the result, I loved every second.”