ENGLAND fast bowler Simon Jones will return to the Glamorgan line-up for tomorrow's championship game against Somerset at Taunton.

Jones (pictured) was left out of England's side for the second Test in favour of James Anderson and was unable to break into Glamorgan's team to face Hampshire.

But the 25-year-old will replace hip-injury victim Alex Wharf in Taunton.

Jones denied rumours of a rift and said he had no interest in playing for anyone but Glamorgan. Stories had speculated that the pace man was a target for Surrey.

Glamorgan's settled pace attack of Wharf, Mike Kasprowicz and David Harrison kept Jones on the sidelines for the defeat against Hampshire, with Dragons coach John Derrick opting for two spinners, Robert Croft and Dean Cosker.

But Cosker suffered a bad finger break in the game and will be out of action for a month. Wharf will receive treatment all week on his hip problem.

Glamorgan chairman Paul Russell, the former Ebbw Vale rugby chief, has hit back at former England captain Mike Atherton's criticism of Glamorgan's treatment of Jones.

Atherton claimed Glamorgan blew England coach Duncan Fletcher, their former chief, 'the biggest raspberry imaginable' by leaving Jones out of the Hampshire game.

Atherton says Fletcher offered to make Jones available to Glamorgan. "It wasn't a very gracious reply to a man who coached them to only the third championship title in their history," he said.

"When the issue is club against country then country should always, always come first."

But Russell countered that Atherton was being uninformed. "Perhaps he would like to consider that it is the counties who own Test cricket," he said.

"It is the counties who own the grounds, developt the players and are the employers of those players.

"And we regularly take the field with eight players qualified for England. We also reached the Twenty20 knock-out stages without a single overseas player in the side."

Meanwhile, Glamorgan will be without Cosker for the Twenty20 Cup finals day at Edgbaston on Saturday while Wharf and paceman Andrew Davies (also hip) are both doubtful.