BRAD Hodge has jetted into Old Trafford as a World Cup winner determined to jump start Lancashire's Friends Provident Trophy campaign this weekend.

The 31-year-old Victorian left a celebrating Australian team behind in the Caribbean to begin his third spell in Red Rose colours against Northants on Sunday.

"I am prepared and as ready as anyone - and come Sunday I will just have to switch on and be ready for the start of the season," he said.

"I have got to try and put everything that happened away from me, I have been away for three months and it is going to be hard to get straight back into a cricket season."

"But all of the celebrations have now finished, and I have got to get back into what I do best - playing cricket."

Hodge had been part of most of the celebrations with the Aussies in the West Indies, only missing out on yesterday's official welcome home parade in Sydney.

But he will swap that experience straight away for a first Red Rose one-day win of the season on Sunday.

"We need a win quick to get us one a roll as soon as," he continued. "If we can do that before we get the little maestro back (Muttiah Muralitharan), then it will be tough for anybody to stop us."

"All we need to do is get a win Sunday, get a win Monday, and then we are two in two. It is a whole different outlook then."

If there was ever anybody who would know all about getting on a roll it would certainly be Hodge.

Added to the World Cup win Hodge also captained his state Victoria to success in the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash competition in February.

"A lot of people believe that Australian domestic cricket is better than English county cricket - I don't think there is a great deal of difference."

"There may well be if you look at state cricket and the second division over here, but not in the first division. That was obviously good preparation for me coming here," he added.