WORCESTERSHIRE launch their Specsavers Under 17 County Championship campaign on Monday against Hampshire at Stourbridge.

The teenagers will play four three-day fixtures in the next month in a break from the normal one-day matches.

Last summer they drew all four matches and the opener will bring back happy memories for Callum Lea who is again part of the squad.

He scored a double century at Basingstoke last summer in a game where Mahaaz Ahmed also reached three figures.

Another major contribution with the bat was Jujhar Johal’s 159 against Devon at Stourport to help Worcestershire save the game.

The under 17s warmed up for the opener by having the better of a two-day draw with Warwickshire at Barnt Green.

Bilal Hussain, Dan Holland and Ed Bragg all scored half-centuries while George and Henry Marshall returned impressive figures after sharing the new ball.

Academy coach Elliot Wilson has named a 12-strong squad to face Hampshire with Zain Ul-Hassan skippering the side.

Worcestershire: Clark, Hussain, Lea, Clarke, Ul-Hassan, Holland, Bragg, Parker-Cole, Flavell, G Marshall, H Marshall, Baker.

Meanwhile, Worcestershire fans can look forward to watching six England Test players in action when the Lions take on India A at Blackfinch New Road in a four-day match from Monday, July 16.

Former Test captain and England’s record run scorer Alastair Cook, Dawid Malan, Chris Woakes, Sam Curran, Dominic Bess and Jack Leach are the full Test internationals named by the national selectors.

Essex batsman Cook has amassed 12,145 runs from 156 Tests with 32 centuries at an average of 45.65.

Warwickshire all-rounder Woakes is to use the match as part of his rehabilitation from injury.

If selected in England’s third ODI on July 17, Curran will miss the Lions match and a replacement will be called up.

India A have just competed with Lions and West Indies A in a Tri-Series 50-over competition.

Lions: Cook (Essex), Malan (Middlesex), Woakes (Warwickshire), Curran (Surrey), Bess (Somerset), Leach (Somerset), Burns (Surrey), Gubbins (Middlesex), Pope (Surrey), Fisher (Yorkshire), Porter (Essex).