Preview: Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Lancashire Lightning - RLODC

Lancashire Lightning will be hoping to continue their good form in the Royal London One-day Cup when they take on Northamptonshire Steelbacks at Wantage Road on Wednesday.

Ashley Giles' side started the 50-over competition with a 42-run win at home to Warwickshire Bears on Sunday, with Jos Buttler striking 91 from 73 balls in Lancashire's innings. The hosts eased to victory when the Bears could only make 254/9 in reply, with Tom Smith and Stephen Parry collecting six wickets between them to guide Lancashire to a comfortable win in their opening group game.

Northants enter their first home match of the tournament on the back of an extraordinary clash at Trent Bridge. The Steelbacks were set an almighty target of 446 by Nottinghamshire after Michael Lumb (184) and Riki Wessels (146) set a record for the most runs made by any partnership in one-day cricket in England worth 342.

The visitors compiled a sturdy response to this mammoth accomplishment, with Rory Kleinveldt striking ten fours and nine sixes in his maiden one-day century of 128 from 63 balls, but Northants could only reach 425 before they were bowled out in a truly memorable match. Adam Rossington hit 97 from 69 deliveries at the top of the innings, but with Richard Levi suffering a shoulder injury while fielding, Northants were missing a crucial hitter after taking the game down to the wire.

Levi managed to come in at Number 11, but he was the final man to fall, as Nottinghamshire recorded a 20-run win, after being made to work hard for a victory that they would have banked on when they scored 445/8 batting first on home soil.

Several records were broken in their match on Monday, with both Lumb and Wessels recording career-best scores in one-day cricket in the process of Notts recording the second-highest total ever in List A cricket. When Northants defied the odds to reach 425, the match set another one-day record for the highest aggregate of runs (870) in English cricket and the second-most in history, two runs behind the epic 5th ODI between South Africa and Australia in 2006.

Lancashire have not visited Wantage Road for a List A fixture since 2009, although they did record an eight-wicket victory on the D/L method in the old NatWest Pro40 League. The two teams did meet in the 50-over contest two years ago at Old Trafford and on that occasion it was Northants who won on the D/L method in another rain-affected fixture.

Martin Guptill is missing from the side who beat Warwickshire Bears due to a shoulder injury, with the Kiwi batsman recording a half-century on his List A debut for the Red Rose county. Rob Jones and Toby Lester could benefit from his absence and are part of a 13-man Lancashire squad. Guptill will be assessed ahead of Lancashire's Twenty20 fixture against Leicestershire on Friday.

Northamptonshire 12-man squad: Alex Wakely (c), Mohammad Azharullah, Josh Cobb, Steven Crook, Ben Duckett (wk), Rob Keogh, Rob Newton, Seekkuge Prasanna, Adam Rossington, Ben Sanderson, Graeme White, Saif Zaib.

Lancashire 13-man squad: Steven Croft (c), Nathan Buck, Karl Brown, Jos Butler (wk), Jordan Clark, Rob Jones, Toby Lester, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Stephen Parry, Alviro Petersen, Luke Procter, Tom Smith.