Durham Cricket Lead High Performance Coach James Franklin has named an unchanged squad of 13 for Durham’s LV Insurance County Championship match against Worcestershire at New Road, which gets underway on Thursday.
Durham head back on the road tomorrow, following defeat to Essex last time out, and have slipped to 5th place in the group 1 table, but are still right in contention with just 19 points separating Durham and Nottinghamshire in top spot.
Worcestershire enjoyed an innings and 23 run win over Derbyshire on Sunday and go into the game tomorrow with 94 points, having played a game extra than Durham.
Durham lead the way with both the countries leading run scorer and wicket taker, David Bedingham remaining in top spot with 666 runs, while Chris Rushworth’s five wickets in the Essex games saw him overtake Craig Overton with 37 wickets as the countries leading wicket taker.
Squad (3-6 June)
Cameron Bancroft, David Bedingham, Scott Borthwick (C), Jack Burnham, Brydon Carse, Ned Eckersley (wkt), Michael Jones, Alex Lees, Matthew Potts, Liam Trevaskis, Ben Raine, Chris Rushworth, Matt Salisbury
Words from the Head Coach
“Last week’s game in now parked in last week’s history books. The boys have had a great chance to get away from cricket with the nice weather and spend time with their friends and families.
“We’ve got back into training from Tuesday and it’s been good, we’re sat for a great 4 days of cricket with the nice weather.
“It was crazy last week, it was a combination of a few factors, the wicket itself meant bowlers would bowl straight and LBWs came into play, then there was some poor batting on display from both sides. An excellent partnership and a brilliant innings from Pepper was the difference.
“In terms of the game, we’re in a really tight group – there’s no pressure to win, we’re not getting carried away, we’ve played some really good cricket and we’ve just got to look after our own process.”
Coach: Alex Gidman
Captain: Joe Leach
Last Year’s Performance: Second (Central Group)
2021 Leading Runscorer: Jake Libby 637*
2020 Leading Wicket Taker: Alzarri Joseph 15*
Overseas players: Alzarri Joseph (West Indies – first seven matches)
Key man: Gareth Roderick – Will further bolster the batting order after his move from Gloucestershire and add more competition for places)
Flies under the radar: Ed Barnard – Consistently amongst Worcestershire’s wicket-takers in red ball cricket and also chips in with invaluable late order runs when most needed)
Best Player Under 24: Dillon Pennington – Burst on the scene in 2018 and after a difficult second season, the paceman came back strongly in 2020 and ready to fulfil his potential.
Match Centre
The Club’s match centre will be in operation for the fixture with live scorecards, statistics & video highlights as they happen. You can watch the game live via the club’s match centre and clubs YouTube channel.
There will also be regular updates on Twitter, with a match report and post-match reaction on the website following the conclusion of each day.