Tom Burrows takes the gloves for Hampshire as they prepare to host Surrey in LV County Championship Division One.

Regular wicketkeeper Nic Pothas has suffered a calf injury, and Hampshire have entrusted the 23-year-old behind the stumps instead of opening batsman Michael Brown, who deputised in the Friends Provident Trophy defeat by Worcestershire at the weekend.

Dimitri Mascarenhas comes back to skipper his county after his Indian Premier League stint.

Michael Carberry suffered from cramps on home turf playing for England Lions, but he has recovered and returns to his county side along with Chris Tremlett.

Chris Benham comes into the batting order with lynchpin John Crawley missing with a side problem.

Though they dismissed a strong Somerset batting line-up for just 126 on the first day at Taunton, Hampshire's pace attack is still weakened by the absence of Shane Bond (calf) and David Balcombe (side strain).

Schoolboy Hamza Riazuddin did not disgrace himself on Championship debut, but he returns to Bradfield College.

Surrey travel to play Hampshire without Chris Schofield, who has broken his left thumb.

The injury to the former England leg-spinner means that Murtaza Hussain is named in Surrey's 13-man squad as back-up to fellow off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq.

Mark Ramprakash goes into the match at the Rose Bowl with the possibility of becoming only the 25th man to score a hundred hundreds in first-class cricket, and the first since Graeme Hick in 1998.

Jimmy Ormond and Jade Dernbach could be vying for the final fast bowler's spot, three days after Dernbach was hit for 107 off his 10 overs by Essex in the Friends Provident Trophy match at the Brit Oval on Sunday.

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