Yorkshire will play all three of their England contracted players in their friendly at Derbyshire on Monday as they continue their build-up for the new season which starts in a week's time.

Darren Gough, Michael Vaughan and Craig White are all included in the side which is not expected to be much different from the one which will meet Durham at Riverside next Saturday in a Benson and Hedges Cup group match.

The game at Derby will be played to B&H rules and is a dress rehearsal for when the two sides clash in the competition at the same venue on April 22.

One certain change at Durham will be the inclusion of Australian batsman, Darren Lehmann, who joins up with Yorkshire next week and will take part in an 'in-house' practice game at Headingley on Wednesday.

Yorkshire were able to hold nets at Headingley yesterday in similar weather conditions to those which they left behind at Perth on Monday at the end of their pre-season tour of Australia.

Skipper David Byas said he had been thrilled with the way the bowlers had performed with Matthew Hoggard and Ryan Sidebottom doing particularly well, but no young batsman had managed quite enough to suggest that the search for a new opener in the championship was over.

"Craig White and I will continue to open in the early one-day matches and I am confident that we have a batting line-up which will score heavily in limited overs cricket," said Byas.

"Finding someone to go in first with Michael Vaughan in the championship is a bit more of a problem and I may decide to do the job myself, but everything depends on how big an impression players like Matthew Wood, Simon Widdup and John Inglis make over the next few weeks.

"Fortunately, we start off with half a dozen one-day matches, so we have time yet to see how things take shape."

'Keeper Richard Blakey made runs when promoted to No 4 late last season but Byas fears it would be asking too much for him to open, while one of the advantages of Byas going in first would be that when Vaughan is away on England duty, Yorkshire would only need to call upon one inexperienced opener and not two.

Meanwhile, apart from Richared Harden, who broke a bone in his hand in Australia last week, Yorkshire have everyone fit and raring to go.

Yorkshire (v Derbyshire) from: Byas, White, Blakey, Vaughan, McGrath, Fellows, Hamilton, Gough, Silverwood, Sidebottom, Hoggard, Fisher.

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