AUSTRALIAN paceman Mike Kasprowicz returns from international duty to spearhead Glamorgan's challenge for triple honours at Sophia Gardens tomorrow.

Before the rejuvenated 32-year-old returns to Australia for further internationals next month, he can help Glamorgan win one competition and virtually cement success on two other fronts.

The competition they can win with him still here is the Twenty20 at Edgbaston on August 7. Glam are expected to beat Leicestershire in the semi-final and to beat Surrey or Lancashire in the final.

Surrey's own skipper, Adam Hollioake, regards them as such and so does Nick Knight, captain of the Warwickshire side Glamorgan put out in the quarter-finals.

Before his return Down Under, Kasprowicz will also be involved in National League matches against Hampshire Hawks (at Cardiff tomorrow, 4.10pm start) and at the Rosebowl on August 15 and against Kent Spitfires at Canterbury on Monday, August 9 (1pm).

A win over Hampshire will virtually put them out of the National League equation and leave Glamorgan eight points clear at the top.

Follow up wins over Kent and Hampshire again would mean Glamorgan having to lose three of their final four games to relinquish their hold on the title they previously won two years ago.

In the championship, Glamorgan face home and away games with Hampshire in the next two and a half weeks (the first at Cardiff on Thursday) with Somerset at Taunton in between.

Hampshire are currently 11.5 points behind Glamorgan in Division Two with a game in hand with only Yorkshire looking a threat to the pair and leaders Nottinghamshire for the promotion spots.

Two wins over Shane Warne's side would leave Glamorgan favourites to go up but, conversely, two defeats would leave the door ajar for the White Rose county.

"It's a very crucial 19-day spell for us," said Glamorgan coach John Derrick, "and we have to just keep on playing as we have been playing.

"The return of Matthew Elliott and now Kasper, two world class players, means we should be even stronger.

It makes selection very difficult as everyone has been playing so well in their absence, but it's the kind of selection headache we would prefer to have.

"In the National League, results at the weekend went our way with nearest rivals Northamptonshire and Lancashire losing.

"Last season the Twenty20 messed us about and threw us off course but that hasn't happened this year. What we have to do now is pick up the tempo we had before our break."

Derrick doesn't believe Glamorgan's bid for success in three competitions will in itself prove a handicap.

"Hopefully, we have the experience in the side to ensure we don't stumble with Test players in Elliott and Kasprowicz, ex international cricketers in Robert Croft and Matthew Maynard and people like Mike Powell and Alex Wharf, who have been included in the England one-day squad, and Mark Wallace and David Harrison who have been mentioned in England terms and played for England at some level.

"We are aware that everyone is capable of beating everyone else but it's in our hands and that's the most important thing," he said.

"This year, in the championship, Elliott and Mark Wallace have been making runs at the top of the order, David Hemp had had a fine season at number three, Mike Powell and Matthew Maynard have got runs and everyone else has contributed.

"In the one-day competitions it has been a question of building partnerships. I think we have had 15 partnerships of 100+ this season and that helps build big scores to set up victories.

"But we must keep our feet on the ground and not get ahead of ourselves." Glamorgan National League squad (from) Elliott, Wallace, Hemp, Powell, Maynard, Dale, Croft, Thomas (D), Thomas (I), Wharf, Davies, Kasprowicz, Cosker.