HAVING successfully booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Vitality Blast last weekend, Durham turn their attention to a different white-ball tournament today as they take on Lancashire in their opening game of the Metro Bank One Day Cup.

Ryan Campbell has named a 14-man squad for the game at Sedbergh School, which includes a mixture of senior and youth players.

Haydon Mustard, James Minto and Daniel Hogg are all in contention to make their professional List A debuts, while Colin Ackermann is in line to make his List A debut for Durham.

Ackermann, Alex Lees, Ben Raine and Paul Coughlin will add 50-over experience to the Durham squad, while Bas de Leede and Michael Jones have a wealth of international List A cricket under their belt from playing with Netherlands and Scotland respectively.

With the Hundred competition starting this week, Durham are without a number of their more experienced players. Graham Clark, Ollie Robinson, Matthew Potts, Callum Parkinson (Northern Superchargers) and Nathan Sowter (Oval Invinsibles) are all on Hundred duty.

Their absence will offer a number of Durham’s younger players an opportunity to impress, with the likes of Mustard, Minto Ben McKinney and Stanley McAlindon likely to be on show over the course of the next three weeks.

Lancashire are missing ten players to the Hundred, with Liam Livingstone, Jos Buttler, Phil Salt, Tom Hartley, Mitchell Stanley, Matthew Hurst, Tom Aspinwall, Saqib Mahmood, Luke Wood and Luke Wells all unavailable today. However, they were beaten finalists in 2022 and quarter-finalists last year and still have a wealth of experience and young talent in their squad.

“The One Day Cup is a good opportunity for young lads like myself and others to get an opportunity, and that is really exciting,” said Durham batsman Jonathan Bushnell, who scored an unbeaten 75 in Sunday’s Minor One Day Cup victory over Northumberland at Jesmond. “With the Hundred, quite a few players are away, so it is really exciting now this competition starts.

“The Northumberland game was really important, the last couple of years against Lincolnshire and Northumberland we lost, so Ryan Campbell emphasised how important it was to get off to winning start and fortunately we did that on Sunday. We look forward to Wednesday now against Lancashire in what should be a great game.”