Norfolk’s big day arrives on Sunday when they take on Cheshire at Wormsley in the National Counties One Day Trophy final. It will be Norfolk’s final game of the season, and they are hoping to end on high by lifting the trophy for the first time since 2009. Norfolk’s young team, who have performed very well in white ball cricket this season, will embrace the occasion.
They have grown in stature as the season has evolved and play without fear. Norfolk have named a squad of 12 and will decide on the final XI before the toss on Sunday morning. There will be six players aged 22 or under, including three sets of brothers – Ben and Arthur Wilcox, Ethan and Callum Metcalf and Jordan and Joe Everett.
Josh Cobb is available as his commitments for the season with Worcestershire ended last Friday with the defeat in the quarter-final of the Metro Bank Trophy to Warwickshire. Josh Cobb in the colours of Northants (Image: PA Images) Cobb has a good record in finals, having twice won the man of the match award in T20 Blast finals with Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. The slow bowling all-rounder adds real balance to the side and on his day can be a match winner with both bat and ball as he proved in the 2016 NatWest Blast final when his audacious 80 took Northants to a final-over victory against Durham.
In 2011 final he took 4-22 against Somerset for his home county Leicestershire. Skipper Sam Arthurton has been in great form in the competition, having scored 535 runs in six inni.