Saturday 4 June 2016

Preview: Lancashire Lightning v Warwickshire Bears - RLODC


Lancashire's Royal London One-Day Cup campaign starts on Sunday when they host Warwickshire Bears at Emirates Old Trafford.

Ashley Giles' side enter this fixture on the back of a disappointing two-wicket defeat against Nottinghamshire Outlaws in the NatWest T20 Blast, their third defeat in four matches in the competition.

Lancashire will be hoping for a better 50-over campaign than last year, when they finished fifth in Group B, failing to qualify for the quarter-finals. Warwickshire shared the exact same record from their eight group games, winning and losing three matches, with two abandoned fixtures.

19-year-old leg break bowler, Matthew Parkinson, could be handed a first-team debut, while Lancashire have decided to make New Zealand international Martin Guptill their overseas player for this fixture instead of countryman, Neil Wagner. 

Lancashire 13-man squad: Steven Croft (c), Nathan Buck, Karl Brown, Jos Buttler (wk), Jordan Clark, Martin Guptill, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Matthew Parkinson, Stephen Parry, Alviro Petersen, Luke Procter, Tom Smith.

Warwickshire squad: TBC

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