Lancashire Lightning have named a 14-man squad for their penultimate Royal London One-Day Cup match against Worcestershire Rapids at New Road on Sunday.
Ashley Giles' side will be hopeful that they can continue their recent winning form in white-ball cricket, with Lancashire needing to win both of their remaining 50-over matches against Worcester and Durham on Monday to advance to the knockout stages of the tournament.
The televised victory against Derbyshire Falcons on Wednesday featured a List A best performance from Liam Livingstone, who struck 98 to guide the Lightning to a winning margin of 27 runs at the 3aaa County Ground. More recently, Lancashire were eliminated from the NatWest T20 Blast despite beating Birmingham by 30 runs in a low-scoring contest at Old Trafford to finish in fifth place in the North Group.
Lancashire and Worcestershire have shared the same fate in the One-Day Cup so far this summer, winning two and losing three of their six group games, with the other match being a no result. Therefore, this game will affectively decide which side will not be able to progress from the North Group, given that both sides would ideally need to win their remaining games to qualify.
The Rapids enter this match on the back of successful defeats in the 50-over competition to Warwickshire and Northamptonshire, with their last victory in this format coming on June 12 against Durham. Worcestershire's last game in any competition saw them host Pakistan in a friendly, as they prepare for the Third Test against England on Wednesday at Edgbaston.
Lancashire travel to New Road with fond memories, with Jos Buttler's record-breaking 20-ball fifty helping the Lightning to post their highest powerplay score in Twenty20 cricket of 98/1 alongside the in-form Petersen. That match ended in a seven-wicket win for Lancashire, who successfully chased their target of 199 with 11 balls to spare to galvanise their bid for a quarter-final spot in the Blast.
Worcestershire squad: TBC
Lancashire 14-man squad: Steven Croft (c), Nathan Buck, Karl Brown, Jordan Clark, Kyle Jarvis, Rob Jones, Arron Lilley, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Tom Moores (wk), Stephen Parry, Alviro Petersen, Luke Procter, Tom Smith.
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