MICHAEL Carberry admits he would like to see Hampshire sign one of his Perth Scorchers teammates.

Carberry has helped the Scorchers reach the semi-finals of the popular T20 tournament – and they can book a home tie if they beat Kevin Petersen’s Melbourne Stars tomorrow.

The Hampshire batsman says “it would be nice” to see one of his Big Bash teammates at the Ageas Bowl – and Giles White is looking for a second T20 Blast overseas player to go with Scorchers’ Yasir Arafat.

Carberry has been particularly impressed with 24 year-old left-armer Jason Behrendorff, the tournament’s leading bowler with 13 wickets at 12.9 apiece and an economy rate of just six.

He has also singled out Marcus Harris, AJ Tye and Yorkshire-born wicketkeeper Sam Whiteman as teammates who would benefit from a stint on the county circuit.

“It would be nice [for a Scorchers player to play at Hampshire],” he said.

“There is some really great talent here.

“Behrendorff is a class act and you’ve got young AJ Tye coming through.

“There’s Marcus Harris at the top and I think Sammy Whiteman kept beautifully.

“There are a lot of good young players here so, yeah, it would be great for their experience to get over and play some county cricket if the opportunity arose.”

With 207 runs at 41.4, including an unbeaten 77 from 37 balls against Brisbane Heat, Carberry is seventh on the Big Bash’s run-scoring chart. But Pietersen (262 at 52.5) is the tournament’s top scorer – and the pair will be in opposition at the Melbourne Cricket Ground tomorrow.

The Stars could pip the Scorchers to second place and a home semi-final on net run rate if they win by a big enough margin, so there is all to play for despite both franchises being assured of a place in the last four.

Carberry will be making his first appearance at the MCG since the Boxing Day Ashes defeat of 2013.

That was the penultimate match of his – and Pietersen’s – Test career.

And it was in the build-up to that match that Pietersen is alleged to have criticised his former Hampshire teammate in front of other England players.

This will be their first match in opposition since the infamous, leaked ECB legal document of last October.

It claimed: “KP made disparaging remarks about Michael Carberry in front of other England players and team management prior to the Fourth Test, stating ‘Aren't there any better players at County level? Carberry is useless’.”

Carberry has subsequently defused that claim.

“Through the tour, certainly, Kev was very helpful to me,” he said. “Over the years Kev, as one of the greats of the game, has always been very helpful in talking about the mental side.”