A primed Adam Voges says he is excited to retake the reins of the Perth Scorchers as the Club on Sunday looks to secure a place in the KFC Big Bash League |05 semifinals with a win over the Hurricanes in Hobart.

Voges has returned to the Scorchers from international duties, having won the inaugural Richie Benaud Medal as Player of the Series in the Australia-West Indies matches.

The 36-year-old accumulated 375 runs from two innings, both not out, to be Australia’s leading run scorer, returning to BBL in solid form and taking over from stand-in captain Michael Klinger, who in Voges’ absence led Perth to a 4-1 record.

Voges’ return has been countered by the exit of Shaun Marsh and Joel Paris, who left the group after the Thursday win over the Sydney Thunder for international duties with the Australian One Day side.

The Scorchers held a light training session on Saturday at Blundstone Arena and Voges said it was an important, but small, opportunity to readjust to white ball cricket.

“It’s nice to be back and the guys have been playing some good cricket, coming off a nice win against the Thunder a couple of nights ago,” Voges said.

“We’ve got an opportunity now to hopefully secure a spot in the semifinals, so there’s a lot riding on this for us.

“Michael Klinger’s done a wonderful job while I’ve been a way and I’m looking forward to taking the reins back over.

“Today is an important day – a training day to hit some white balls again – but I think it’s a mental adjustment more than anything.

“Technically, you don’t change too much and I’m looking forward to getting out there.

“We lose a couple of guys in Shaun Marsh and Joel Paris and they’re going to be big losses for us, but I think we’ve got enough depth in our squad to cover them.”

The Hurricanes enter the match in a must-win situation, sitting just outside the top four with a 3-3 record, having suffered consecutive defeats to Melbourne’s Renegades and Stars.

Both losses were founded on an opening attack of spin from their rivals, with the Stars utilising spin for six of the first eight overs and the Hurricanes slumping to 4-31 inside the powerplay.

The results have prompted suggestions the Scorchers could look to follow the winning formula – a move that would be in contrast to the Club’s usual opening pace attack – and while Voges said that decision would be made at a later date, he confirmed Perth had the depth that meant the option was there.

“Our death bowling is something that we really pride ourselves on and in Jason Behrendorff and David Willey, AJ Tye, we’ve got some guys who are very skilful in that regard,” Voges said.

“We’ll be looking for some of those guys to make some good contributions tomorrow.

“Maybe they’re expecting us to go with spin now, so I don’t know yet, but what we do know is that we have some options.

“Whether we go with pace or spin first up, we’ve got a few options there.

“It’s about executing our skills.

“We won a good game down here last year where I think we defended about 140, so it’ll be about the guys continuing on where they left off from Sydney.”