Ryan Campbell’s side boosted their chances of qualifying for the knockout stages of the competition when they chased down a target of 321 to beat Lancashire by four wickets on Wednesday.
That victory lifted sixth-placed Durham level on points with third-placed Somerset in a heavily-congested Group B table, and took them to within four points of table-toppers Yorkshire.
The White Rose provide the opposition at Scarborough today, with another positive result likely to be essential if Durham are to make it to the knockout phase.
“It was a big win [against Lancashire],” said Durham bowler Ben Raine. “We said going in that we hadn’t played as well as we wanted. But the teams we were going to be playing against going forwards, the destiny is in our hands because they’re also in and around it competing for the knockouts.
“We have to keep winning to give ourselves a chance, and that’s the first one done. We’re very happy and now we move on to Yorkshire.”
Campbell has named an unchanged squad of 14, with Sam Conners still in contention to make his Durham List A debut. Ollie Robinson will continue to captain the side for the remainder of the group stage.
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Durham, who are looking to pick up their fourth One Day Cup win of the season, boast the batting talents of Will Rhodes, who is the One Day Cup’s second highest run-scorer with 387 runs. His wicket tally of 13 is only bettered by 16 for Leicestershire’s Alex Green.
Yorkshire are missing seven players to The Hundred with Jonny Bairstow, Harry Brook, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jafer Chohan and Jordan Thompson all away during August.
Durham chased down a daunting target with an over-and-a-half to spare against Lancashire, confirming their liking for batting second in the one-day format.
“We were very clear that we wanted to chase,” said Raine. “Our batting line-up is pretty much untouched with the Hundred. We know we’re going to score runs more often than not, so we were always confident with the chase.
“Lancashire were 50 off the first five overs, and we thought we could be chasing 450 at that point. So, we brought it back really well.”
