Kabir Ali has now gone more than two years since his last international call

Worcestershire paceman Kabir Ali is wondering just what he has to do to get noticed again by the England selectors.

Team-mates Stephen Moore and Steven Davies are off to India this winter with the England Performance Programme squad, but Kabir has missed out.

And Kabir, who took 59 Championship wickets this summer but missed the final weeks, insists he was fit.

"I had no contact with any of the selectors," he said. "If they'd rung me I could have told them them I was OK."

Kabir, took his wickets in 11 Championship games at 18.74 apiece, eight behind the country's leading wicket-taker, James Tomlinson, who played five more games.

And he would have had a great chance to finish the season as the country's leading bowler had a back problem not curtailed his campaign.

"I'm disappointed not to be picked for any of the tours," Kabir told the Worcester News. "The back would have been fine, as there are another six weeks before anyone bowls a ball."

Kabir, now 28, played his only Test Match against South Africa at Headingley in 2003, taking five wickets in the match on his debut.

The last of his 14 one-day internationals was against Sri Lanka in July 2006.

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