DURHAM will wait until this morning before solving their selection dilemma ahead of the C & G Trophy match against Northamptonshire at Riverside, but Paul Collingwood and Liam Plunkett will play.

Australian seamer Mick Lewis is also in the squad after missing the first two championship games, and if he plays Graham Onions is likely to be rested, along with either Ottis Gibson or Callum Thorp.

Both Collingwood and Plunkett are raring to go after resting since their return from India with the England squad.

Plunkett said: "A week off seems a long time after going on two tours, but I feel really refreshed.

"I hope the Durham fans will see a difference in me.

"I think bowling on the sub-continent against good players has made me more calm and levelheaded in tight situations. I have shown I can bowl OK at the top level and it's a massive help to my confidence.

"Last year I was a bit inconsistent and didn't believe in myself enough if something went wrong.

I have got stronger and I'm hitting the deck harder. In the last couple of days I've also been swinging it away in practice, which I wasn't doing at the end of last season."

Plunkett has his sights on filling the No 9 slot which is up for grabs in England's World Cup team in the West Indies next March.

"With England I've been in the nets every day facing Steve Harmison and Freddie Flintoff, so that's helped me work on my batting, " he said.

"I'm over the moon to have been on two England tours and made my Test debut because I was just hoping to get into the academy over the winter. But it left me mentally and physically tired and I needed the break. England set us a plan for what we should do when we arrived home, which was to have a rest then get back in the gym and prepare for games."

Collingwood added: "India took its toll. It has been good just to get back to home comforts and put my feet up for ten days.

"If anyone had told me I would play in five Tests this winter I would have taken that, but the way it went was great.

"To draw a Test series in India was almost as good a feeling as winning the Ashes. It was really satisfying to win on a spinners' pitch in Bombay.

"Scoring my first Test century was a dream. I got a lot of help from Steve Harmison, even though he came in and played aggressively, which wasn't really what we wanted. He once helped me up into the 90s in a county match at Trent Bridge then got out, so he said he wasn't going to let me down again.

"He showed once he gets in he can look like a batsman and he took the pressure off me because I didn't have to take any chances."

Gary Scott also joins the squad today, indicating that Durham might be considering leaving Jon Lewis out of their one-day side.

Coach Martyn Moxon admitted: "We have a selection dilemma.

None of our bowlers has done anything wrong, and we want to make sure Mick Lewis is 100 per cent before making a decision.

"There is talk of rain, so that might also affect the balance of the side."

With Scotland in the northern group and Ireland in the southern, every team plays nine games in the revamped C &G, with the group winners contesting the final.

There is an obvious danger that teams who lose their first two or three games will lose interest and Moxon hopes Durham will benefit from starting with two home matches. Worcestershire are the visitors next Sunday.

"Teams will be looking for six wins to qualify for the final, " he said. "Our pitches have been excellent so far this season, so we are happy to start at home."