HAMPSHIRE manager Paul Terry hopes Marcus Trescothick, his former teammate, returns to the England side as soon as he is ready.

There is likely to be a double dose of nostalgia for Trescothick when he arrives at the Rose Bowl with the Somerset Sabres tomorrow as he used to open the batting for Melville CC with Terry in Perth - and his last international innings was at West End last September.

Trescothink has been outstanding in his two international Twenty20 appearances at the Rose Bowl, against Australia and Sri Lanka, in the last two seasons.

But when he was last at the Rose Bowl, for a two-wicket ODI defeat against Pakistan eight months ago, he was bowled first ball by Shoaib Akhtar - and has not been seen on the international stage since.

After two warm-up games in Australia he withdrew from the Ashes tour and England's World Cup campaign because of a stress disorder and has refused to put himself in contention for a return to the national side.

Terry opened the batting with Trescothick for Melville CC from 1997-99 and believes England are worse off without him.

He said: "It's great for Somerset, they must be delighted to have Marcus so much.

"But England are a better side with him in it so I hope he does return.

"He's the type of player we missed during the World Cup. He does the things England were criticised for not doing, like hitting over the top and getting the innings off to a flier."

Hampshire have never faced a Somerset side including Trescothick at the Rose Bowl, or anywhere since Terry returned to the county in 2003. But Terry has several memories of a young Tresco.

He said: "I know he loves the game, he was always passionate about it and just loved playing. I obviously can't comment on his problems, I don't know anything about his condition, but I was always very impressed with him as a young player at Melville.

"He always wanted to play and we had plenty of chats about the game together. I also remember him playing very well to get a big hundred against us at Taunton during my last season as a Hampshire player."

Trescothick smashed a career-best 178 that day in August 1996. It was his second-highest first-class score for Somerset as recently as last week, when he made a new career-best 284 at Northants.

It is in the one-day form of the game that he faces the Hampshire Hawks tomorrow in the Rose Bowl's first day-night match of the season (2.30pm start).

It will be Trescothick's first appearance against Hampshire since his man-of-the-match display in the same competition five years ago.

In June 2002, he crashed Hampshire's bowling all around Taunton in making 133 from 115 balls to book Somerset a fifth-round berth.

Hampshire will be doing their best to avoid a repeat tonight but will also have Justin Langer to contend with.

That will not be easy as the Somerset captain has been in even better form than Trescothick this season.

Langer made 315 - albeit on the flattest of Taunton tracks - in Somerset's first championship game of the season and also hit 132 in his side's last FP Trophy match, a 128-run win against Ireland, the day before Hampshire beat the Irish - and the Duckworth-Lewis calculations - in their last outing.

The Hawks will be hoping to maintain their excellent record against Langer under the Rose Bowl floodlights.

The 36-year-old's only other appearance at West End was as a member of the Australian team which lost to Hampshire by two wickets in 2001.

Langer does not have a good record against Hampshire in the FP Trophy either.

When he was captain of Middlesex and the competition was a knockout tournament sponsored by Natwest, Langer twice suffered emphatic quarter-final defeats against Hampshire at Lord's, in 1998 and 2000.

Somerset may have Trescothick and Langer but Hampshire welcome back their own left-handed opener in Michael Carberry tomorrow.

Carberry has missed the start of the season with a knee injury but would have played on Sunday against the Gloucestershire Gladiators were it not for the rain.

He will make his first county appearance of the summer against the Sabres.

Since returning from the England A tour of Bangladesh in March he has been sidelined while Michael Brown has taken his place alongside Jimmy Adams at the top of the order in Hampshire's championship team.

After scoring back-to-back hundreds, Brown is hard to drop from the four-day side but the explosive Carberry was always likely to go straight back into Hampshire's one-day XI.

He will replace Kevin Pietersen in the one change likely to be made to the side that beat Ireland the week before the Bristol abandonment.

Hampshire (probable): Carberry, Pothas (wkt), Crawley, Benham, Lumb, Ervine, Mascarenhas, Warne (capt), Clark, Tremlett, Taylor.

Somerset (from): Trescothick, Langer (capt), Edwards, Hildreth, White, Blackwell, Kieswetter (wkt), Parsons, Trego, Jones, Caddick, Willoughby.