DURHAM could find themselves up against Australian World Cup winner James Faulkner in tonight's NatWest T20 Blast match against Lancashire at Old Trafford (6.30).

The 25-year-old Tasmanian was involved in the Indian Premier League until Wednesday but was flying to England yesterday.

He was not in the 12-man squad named by Ashley Giles, but Lancashire's new coach has not ruled out the left-arm seamer.

If Durham are to build on last week's win at home to Northamptonshire they need to improve their woeful Twenty20 record against the Red Rose team.

They have beaten Lancashire only once, at home in 2011, since an unlikely 2008 win at Old Trafford, when they were heading for defeat until South African Albie Morkel went berserk in the last few overs.

He blasted five sixes in the last nine balls he faced in an unbeaten 45 as Durham overhauled Lancashire's 180 for six with six wickets in hand.

That was the match in which Scott Borthwick made his first team debut, aged 18, and Lancashire included Lou Vincent, the New Zealander later implicated in match fixing.

Durham are likely to field the same side as against Northants, when victory was set up by Calum MacLeod's 23-ball half-century, supported by 51 from Phil Mustard.

One-day skipper Mark Stoneman will be hoping his championship century at Edgbaston this week helps him to find some form in a competition in which he has yet to flourish.

It was only two years ago that he became a regular in the T20 side and he has made only one half-century. Last season he totalled 82 runs in ten innings before dropping himself down the order.

Lancashire include two South African batsmen who have retired from Test cricket in Ashwell Prince and Alviro Petersen, plus two new seam bowlers in Nathan Buck, signed from Leicestershire, and George Edwards, from Surrey.

Lesser known members who have come up through their own ranks include opening batsman Liam Livingstone, who scored 350 in a club match for Nantwich last month, and seamer Tom Bailey, who took five for 12 on Wednesday in the championship win against Leicestershire.

All-rounder Jordan Clark, brother of Durham's Graham Clark, is also included and is best known for becoming the first English professional to hit six sixes in an over in a second X1 match at Scarborough.

Durham (from): M D Stoneman (capt), P Mustard, C S MacLeod, P D Collingwood, G J Muchall, S G Borthwick, R D Pringle, K K Jennings, J W Hastings, U Arshad, C Rushworth, P Coughlin.