Hampshire Hawks are looking for a third successive National League win against Durham Dynamos tomorrow - their last match before the Twenty20 Cup begins life at The Rose Bowl next Friday night.

Manager Paul Terry will recall the fit-again Dimitri Mascarenhas, pictured, to his one-day side for the 45-over-a-side match against Durham, with James Hamblin stepping down from the team that beat the Scottish Saltires in Edinburgh last weekend.

But he is still thinking about his best line-up for the opening Twenty 20 match against Sussex in front of the Sky TV cameras in six days' time.

Terry said: "We've had some chats about the Twenty 20 Cup. What will be important is getting the batting order right but, at the end of the day, we always play the last 20 overs of a game at some point so we can assume that that is what it will be like - just with ten wickets in hand.

"It's going to be an exciting, quick game so we'll pick a side accordingly. All the guys who have been playing on Sunday have been playing pretty well so it will just be a case of deciding whether there are some who are better suited to playing a 20-over game.

"We've got a lot of aggressive players and I'm sure everybody in the squad will want to play but we will pick the side we think will be the best on the day."

Successive wins against Somerset Sabres and the Saltires mean that the Hawks can establish themselves in the top three if the weather holds off tomorrow.

Terry added: "They're all-important games because we want to do well in all the competitions. If we beat Durham we're in a good position. We stay in the top three and that's where we want to be all season."

Steve Harmison has been an ever-present for Durham in the National League this season but is not expected to play tomorrow despite the fact that the second Test against Zimbabwe is unlikely to go to a fifth day.

Durham would love to have Harmison available after Dewald Pretorius became the county's latest casualty on Wednesday.

Pretorius, who has taken eight National League wickets at 8.12 this season, suffered a hamstring injury on the first day of the championship match at the Rose Bowl and is now struggling to be fit for South Africa's tour of England later this summer.

Ian Pattison, Martin Love and Paul Collingwood are all sidelined so that added to Terry's frustration when, with Hampshire in a commanding position, the third day of the championship match was washed out without a ball being bowled yesterday.

Terry added: "I think we'll see the best of the side when we get some good weather but there's not a lot we can do about it. There's no point moaning, we've got to get on with it."

Durham were set to resume this morning on 107-2 , 349 runs adrift of Hampshire's 456, needing 200 more runs to avoid the follow on.

Hampshire Hawks (probable): Kenway, Crawley, Katich, Smith, Kendall, Pothas, Mascarenhas, Wasim Akram, Udal, Mullally, Giddins.