DURHAM are hoping they can finally get on the park when their Vitality County Championship round two fixture against Warwickshire gets underway at Edgbaston on Friday.

Following a washout against Hampshire last week, Ryan Campbell has named a 14-player squad which includes new overseas signing Scott Boland.

Having touched down last week in the UK, Boland now comes into contention to make his Durham first-class debut, while Colin Ackermann and Callum Parkinson remain in line to make their bows for the club in the County Championship.

Warwickshire had to settle for a draw in their opening game against Worcestershire, after bad weather shunted a game which could have gone either way at Edgbaston, with the Bears taking 13 points from the fixture.

Campbell said: "Scott Boland arriving makes it another difficult decision, we made some tough decisions going into the game against Hampshire and that will be the same against Warwickshire this week.

"We’ve been sitting around trying to work out our rotations of our bowling stocks. The honest truth is every club would like to sit there and have the “he can’t play, but we can’t leave him out” conversations.

"We will pick the best four guys that we believe are best suited for Warwickshire, with also one thought on Worcestershire which comes pretty soon after.

"We know that Warwickshire have an experienced bowling attack, but a bowling attack that can come under pressure from us if we bat well. I’m really looking forward to Warwickshire, I think it’s going to be a really good game of cricket against a team that’s done really well in Division One, and we’re ready to be tested."

Alex Davies has replaced Will Rhodes as Warwickshire captain, the latter having stepped down after an impressive tenure which included leading the side to the Championship title in 2021.

Pakistan paceman Hasan Ali returns until at least the end of July to rejoin a seam attack which will be without Henry Brookes, who has moved to Middlesex.

Durham's squad v Warwickshire (12-15 April):

Colin Ackerman, David Bedingham, Scott Boland, Scott Borthwick*, Brydon Carse, Graham Clark, Paul Coughlin, Bas de Leede, Michael Jones, Alex Lees (vc), Callum Parkinson, Matthew Potts, Ben Raine, Ollie Robinson.