Injury kept Harris out of the Australian side for the first half of the 2011/12 summer at home
He returned to fitness and the Test team, for the third Test against India in Perth.
His tidy bowling impressed, claiming Tendulkar's wicket in the first innings and Dravid's in the 2nd.
Test form led to selection in the ODI squad after a break of more than a year, but wayward and expensive bowling saw him make way for Pattinson midway through the series, who returned to the team after injury.
He was selected for the Test squad or the VB Tour of the West Indies in April 2012.
Dusty, spin friendly pitches made pace bowing hard work in the Caribbean.
Harris' finest innings of the tour came with the bat, driving his way to 68 in the first innings of the first Test, posting the highest score by an Australian No. 9 batsmen against the West Indies.
When fit, Harris torments batsmen right across the globe. His nine wickets in the Vodafone Ashes Test in Perth 2010 was an amazing display of pace, bounce and swing.
However, it came at a cost, breaking down during the Boxing Day Test with stress fractures in his ankle.
Harris recovered in time to compete in IPL4 where his team Bangalore finished just outside the top four. He took 16 wickets in 13 matches showing no effects of the injury that ruled him out of the summer.
Harris made his first class debut in 2001 for South Australia, where he spent nearly ten years as a stock bowler before moving to Queensland in 2008. In his first season for the Bulls he finished with 33 wickets at 26.48 and hasn't looked back.
With a bevy of young fast bowlers in the Australian camp, Harris will need to stand up on the pitch and behind the scenes to help provide leadership and consistency in the team.
