DURHAM will decide this morning whether Paul Collingwood is fit to play at Scarborough, but Usman Arshad is out with a side injury picked up in yesterday's 146-run win at Leicester.

Collingwood sat out the game because of his neck problem and Durham could have rested a few others against feeble opposition.

Arshad, who played in the last championship game against Hampshire, broke down in his second over and seems certain to be replaced by Jamie Harrison today.

The left-armer played one of his five games of the 2013 season at Scarborough, when Durham beat Yorkshire by seven wickets in what was virtually the title decider.

Ben Stokes was the match-winner, taking vital wickets as well as joining Mark Stoneman and Michael Richardson in scoring centuries as Durham amassed 573 in their first innings.

Since then they have been on the receiving end of big Yorkshire totals and the start of their decline this season can be traced back to the unbroken stand of 366 shared by Jonny Bairstow and Tim Bresnan.

Yorkshire won that match at Chester-le-Street by an innings and 47 runs and have been given an unfair advantage ahead of the rematch.

They enjoyed a day off yesterday in Scarborough, having played there on Wednesday, while Durham had to travel straight up from Grace Road last night.

They would be grateful for an early start after the Foxes folded for 203 in 37.3 overs, Scott Borthwick mopping up the tail to complete his first five-wicket haul in one-day cricket.

Durham were able to ensure the overworked John Hastings was not extended as there was no need to recall him after he opened up with 5-0-16-1.

The victory means Durham will go into their final group game in the Royal London Cup at home to Derbyshire on Monday week still with high hopes of grabbing the fourth qualifying spot.

Yesterday's match was a poor advert for a competition in which teams tend to field experimental line-ups once they can't qualify for the quarter-finals.

Last year Surrey turned up with the weakest attack ever seen at Riverside and yesterday Leicestershire were little better.

They left out seamers Clint McKay and Ben Raine, plus spinners Rob Sayer and Jigar Naik, handing a debut to triallist Liam Hurt, from Lancashire.

They also included another inexperienced seamer in Ollie Freckingham, who bowled Phil Mustard for 12 but finished with figures of 9-0-92-1.

Durham piled up their second highest one-day score with skipper Mark Stoneman leading the way with 98 in a total of 349 for seven, four short of the record set in last year's semi-final at home to Nottinghamshire.

Stoneman and Borthwick put on 146 for the second wicket before the captain steered a catch to point after facing 104 balls and hitting 12 fours.

Borthwick was unluckily run out for 87 by a deflection at the non-striker's end before Graham Clark, Ryan Pringle, Hastings and Calum MacLeod all chipped in with rapid runs.

The innings reached a crescendo in the 44th and 45th overs, in which Freckingham conceded 22 and Hurt 19.

But after hitting the first four balls of Hurt's over for three fours and a six Hastings chased a slow, wide one and was caught at backward point for 27, made off 11 balls.

He and Chris Rushworth quickly removed the home openers and it became 49 for three when Gordon Muchall replaced Arshad and struck with his fifth ball.

His medium pace had brought one previous wicket in one-day cricket, against Scotland in 2010. The second came when local lad Aadil Ali tried to hit him over the top and was bowled.

As Durham used Muchall and Keaton Jennings to compensate for the loss of Arshad, it allowed Lewis Hill and Niall O'Brien to build a stand.

Hill, another local lad, made a championship century at the Oval in May, but had a previous top one-day score of 35.

The partnership looked briefly threatening when Borthwick came on for the 23rd over and after two dot balls O'Brien hit him for six, four, four to reach 50 off 43 balls.

But he edged the next ball to Mustard to end the stand of 99 in 14 overs.

Rushworth was then recalled to bowl at home skipper Mark Cosgrove, who had dropped himself down to No 6. He glanced the first ball he faced for four then played back and inside-edged the next into his off stump.

Rushworth followed up by bowling Andrea Aganathelou to finish with three for 38 before Hill's impressive 86 at a run-a-ball ended when he edged a sweep off Borthwick.

The leg-spinner quickly took the last three to record five for 38.

In case Collingwood is unfit, Durham have added Jack Burnham to their squad at Scarborough. The match ends on Monday and the Esh Winning all-rounder is due to make his England Under 19 debut the following day in the first one-day international against Australia at South Northumberland.

Durham (from): P D Collingwood (capt), M D Stoneman, G Clark, S G Borthwick, M J Richardson G J Muchall, R D Pringle, J W Hastings, J Harrison, C Rushworth, G Onions, K K Jennings, J Burnham.