TEENAGE quick Matt Fisher has urged his Yorkshire team-mates to take responsibility and not rely on the county’s England players when they take on Essex today.

The Vikings tackle the Eagles at Chelmsford in the Royal London one-day Cup quarter-final, starting at 2pm.

All of Yorkshire’s England players are available bar Joe Root, meaning their team will have a star-studded look with Ashes winners Jonny Bairstow, Gary Ballance and Adam Lyth all in contention.

Liam Plunkett and Adil Rashid are also available before linking up with England’s one-day international squad for their forthcoming series against Australia.

Fisher, however, is keen for other players such as himself make sure the county get the job done and make up for last year’s last eight defeat to Durham.

“It will be good to have the England lads back, but we cannot just rely on them. Everyone has got to take responsibility,” said the 17-year-old.

“It’s nice to have them back, and we will be confident for the game. But it is massive to be missing Glenn Maxwell. He has been awesome. He has the firepower to win a game on his own.

“Bairstow has the same kind of temperament, he could do the same, so it is great to have the likes of him back and Lythy at the top of the order.

“(Alex) Leesy and Lythy have been really good over the last couple of years opening in all formats.”

Fisher has made six RL50 appearances this summer, taking seven wickets. He also hit a useful 34 from number eleven in the order during the defeat to Somerset at Scarborough earlier this month.

He is one of the reasons why coach Jason Gillespie, win or lose today, believes Yorkshire have taken significant strides forward as a one-day side in 2015.

“We’ve made some strides, and we’re only going to be better going forward,” he said. “We’ve brought a couple of players in who have done well.

“I’ve been pleased with a couple of the young batters. I’ve also been pleased with young Matt Fisher, and Karl Carver has done ok when he’s had opportunities. There’s some real positives there.

“We made the quarter-final last year and lost that. We played poorly against Durham.

“We’ve shown a lot this year, and there’s been some really good cricket played. We’re really looking forward to this game.

“They’re a team that back themselves in the short form of the game. They’ve got some really match winners, and for us to compete with them, we are going to have to play at our very best.”

Fisher has been a regular in white ball cricket for Yorkshire this summer. He was also their leading wicket-taker in the NatWest T20 Blast, taking 16 wickets from 13 appearances.

He has also played in a one-day World Cup semi-final for England under 19s, but believes today will be the biggest game of his career so far: “Probably, with it being a quarter-final,” he added.

“The Blast were just league matches. “I played at Headingley and Old Trafford in the Roses T20 matches, so I am used to big crowds. It is very exciting, especially for me being a young lad around the squad for a big game.”