The former Tigers skipper and World Cup winner will return to the red-ball side for the Tigers' first home Shield outing for the season, starting Thursday at Blundstone Arena against Victoria.

"Generally (selection) will be around who is in form and who is making runs, last game he missed because of the balance," Vaughan said.

"We made the decision to bat Beau Webster at number three and provide our spinning options and Beau did really well and made 60 and was really unfortunate to be run out, so he has taken his opportunity and deserves to stay in the team and George is back for this game.

"George is a quality cricket person and a quality human and he understands that is the role he will probably play for us for the rest of the summer."

Bailey, 37, was in good touch though in his last outing for the state, with 67 in the one-day win over a star-studded New South Wales line-up last week.

Jackson Bird, Gabe Bell, Jake Doran and Charlie Wakim have also been included.

Opener Jordan Silk will miss after a Riley Meredith delivery in the nets damaged his wrist, Ben McDermott is on national duty with the T20 side and rookie paceman Lawrence Neil-Smith is ill. Spinners Jarrod Freeman and Clive Rose have been dropped, while Test skipper Tim Paine will be rested.

"It was always the plan he (Paine) would play two, miss game three, and then come back for game four before heading off to the Australian summer, so we knew this from about six weeks ago,'' he said.

"(It has been) a discussion with Justin (coach Justin Langer) and Tim and us, and a conversation about managing his physical workloads for the season."

The first ball in Hobart will be bowled at 10.30am.