Lancashire Lightning must bounce back immediately from their recent defeat at Grace Road if they are to stand any chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the One-Day Cup.
The second-leg of a double-header in the 50-over campaign sees an out-of-form Lancashire side travel to Derbyshire for a must-win match against the Falcons at the 3aaa County Ground.
The latest of three defeats in the Royal London Cup - a 131-run loss against Leicestershire Foxes - means that Lancashire's limited-overs season is hanging by a thread, with the reigning Twenty20 champions on the brink of elimination in the Blast.
Chasing 308 to win at Leicester yesterday, Lancashire were bowled out for 176 inside 40 overs, a defeat that puts them bottom of their group. The Foxes' first List A victory in nearly two seasons allowed them to leapfrog Ashley Giles' side in the table and now means that a defeat against Derbyshire would be terminal for Lancashire's white-ball exploits.
Tom Smith followed up his century for the Second XI on Monday with a fifty against Leicestershire, as he and Alviro Petersen established the platform Lancashire required in their pursuit of 308. However, the Lighting slumped from 74 without loss to 176 all out in the space of 26 overs, inflicting another heavy defeat after a record-breaking loss at the hands of their Roses rivals Yorkshire by 242 runs earlier this season.
Lancashire and Derbyshire met recently in the T20 format for another televised fixture and on that occasion it was the Falcons who walked away with victory by six wickets. Petersen hit 79 from 49 balls - his best T20 score in a Lancashire shirt prior to his century against Leicester - but the hosts cruised to victory with eight balls to spare.
Derby made a blistering start to the 50-over campaign, winning both of their opening North Group matches by seven wickets against Worcestershire and Durham respectively, but they are without a win in the format since beating Durham at the start of June. Lancashire, meanwhile, are winless since their opening victory against Warwickshire at Old Trafford.
Derbyshire 14-man squad: Wes Durston (c), Billy Godleman, Ben Slater, Chesney Hughes, Hamish Rutherford, Wayne Madsen, Neil Broom, Shiv Thakor, Alex Hughes, Harvey Hosein (wk), Matt Critchley, Tony Palladino, Ben Cotton, Will Davis.
Lancashire 13-man squad: Steven Croft (c), Nathan Buck, Karl Brown, Jordan Clark, Kyle Jarvis, Arron Lilley, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Tom Moores (wk), Stephen Parry, Alviro Petersen, Luke Procter, Tom Smith.
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