Yorkshire need to rediscover their early season form if they are to maintain their status of Championship leaders when they take on Kent at Tunbridge Wells, starting tomorrow.

Batsman, Adam Lyth, and fast bowler, Steve Patterson, are included in a party of 13, but Yorkshire are expected to keep faith with the side which lost their last match by six wickets to Durham at Riverside.

Despite that setback, Yorkshire stayed top, but they are under no illusions that Kent will be a tough nut to crack.

Their opponents are only 20 points behind after gaining an impressive victory by an innings and 79 runs over Surrey when Darren Stevens, Martin van Jaarsveld and Geraint Jones all plundered centuries for the victors.

It will be a particularly testing game for Yorkshire's talented young leg-spinner, Adil Rashid, who went wicketless against Durham for the first time in his career in a Championship match.

He has been left out of Yorkshire's last two Friends Provident games after being set upon by Brad Hodge in the Roses clash at Old Trafford when he was thumped for 74 runs in ten overs.

"We told Adil not to be down-hearted through not taking any wickets at Durham because this happens to all bowlers," said Yorkshire's director of cricket, Martyn Moxon.

Yorkshire (from): White, Sayers, McGrath, Younus, Rudolph, Rashid, Bresnan, Guy, Gough, Gillespie, Kruis, Patterson, Lyth.