York teenager Matthew Fisher is on course to make cricket history on Sunday if he features in Yorkshire Vikings YB40 match against Leicestershire Foxes at Scarborough.

Fisher, a six foot two inch seamer, has been called into the squad and will become the youngest post-war cricketer to play in a competitive county game if he makes the starting line-up aged 15 years and 212 days.

He will break the record set by Royston Gabe-Jones, who played for Glamorgan against Leicestershire in 1922 aged 15 years and 274 days, and follows in the footsteps of Barney Gibson, who became the youngest first class cricketer in England when he kept wicket for Yorkshire against Leeds/Bradford MCCU two years ago.

"My target at the start of the year was to get one or two second team games - I've already surpassed that," said Fisher. "If I play I'll be nervous, but I'm really excited and hopefully it will inspire me to play more professional cricket."

Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie revealed they had been keeping an eye on Fisher, who claimed six for 25 for the second team against Leicestershire earlier this week.

"We monitor the progress of all our players and the feedback I have received from Paul Farbrace (second team coach) on the way Matthew has been playing has been excellent," he said. "He is very young, but he has the ability to be successful if he is selected on Sunday."

Fisher is joined in the squad by two other youngsters - seamer Ben Coad, 19, who made his senior debut in last week's YB40 defeat to Gloucestershire, and all-rounder Ryan Gibson, 17.

The 14-man squad also includes Liam Plunkett, who has been absent for the last three weeks with thigh problems.