The world's best hockey player Jamie Dwyer is set to return from injury to bolster the Kookaburras for their Olympic Games qualifiers next month.

Dwyer looks on track to return ahead of schedule from a knee injury to play for Australia in their three-sided Oceania Cup tournament in Hobart from October 5 to 9.

The four-time world player of the year will have been out of action since April.

Kookaburras coach Ric Charlesworth said recently he was happy with how Dwyer's recovery was progressing after his injury and subsequent surgery.

But he had originally slated a tournament in Perth in late October as the 32-year-old's most likely comeback event for the national team.

Instead Charlesworth has added Dwyer to a 20-player Oceania Cup squad, which will be cut to 18 ahead of the Kookaburras' opening match.

He has recently returned to club hockey in Perth after training well for several weeks.

Dwyer is one of three senior players on the comeback trail who have been named in the Kookaburras squad.

Olympians Rob Hammond and Mark Knowles are also included - the Queenslanders having overcome a hamstring injury and leg stress fracture respectively.

The world No.1 ranked Kookaburras take on New Zealand and Fiji at the the tournament.

They must finish top two - which would appear a formality - to qualify for London.

Kookaburras squad: Nathan Burgers, Andrew Charter, Kiel Brown, Fergus Kavanagh, Matthew Swann, Brent Dancer, Matthew Butturini, Chris Ciriello, Liam De Young, Mark Knowles, Eddie Ockenden, Simon Orchard, Jamie Dwyer, Rob Hammond, Mark Paterson, Glenn Simpson, Glenn Turner, Jason Wilson, Russell Ford, Kieran Govers.

Guy Hand
AAP