DURHAM'S Graham Onions joined other ex-England players offering their expertise to this winter’s Young Lions at a Loughborough training camp at the weekend.

Onions' county captain Paul Collingwood has been working with the Young Lions all autumn and will be travelling to their training camps in Dubai next month as a member of their coaching staff.

He will be joined by Durham's second team coach Neil Killeen, who has been a regular coach on the ECB International Pathway for several years. This winter he will be working specifically with a group of fast bowlers, including Sunderland's Josh Coughlin.

Ed Barnes, a fast bowling all-rounder from Knaresborough who made his England U19 debut against Sri Lanka last summer, has become Yorkshire’s second representative in the Young Lions squad.

He joins opening batsman Harry Brook for the trip to Dubai on December 3 for three weeks of warm-weather training based at the ICC Academy, including two one-day matches and one three-day fixture against UAE XIs.

The Young Lions are aiming for selection in a 15-man squad for a tour of India in February, which will include five U19 internationals in Mumbai and two four-day Tests in Chennai.

Durham members Sylvia and Peter Savage are well on the way to achieving their target of 1,000 signatures on an online petition asking the ECB to rescind the penalty points imposed on Durham next season.

Anyone wishing to sign the petition can access it here: https://www.change.org/p/england-wales-cricket-board-ditch-the-durham-penalty-points?