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Steven Croft will miss his first one-day game for Lancashire in 11 years on Friday.

The Lancashire captain is still recovering from the thumb injury he picked up in the opening Specsavers County Championship match of the campaign against Essex.

Croft last missed a one-day match for Lancashire in 2006, when he was left out of the C&G Trophy final at Lord’s.

Since then, he has been an ever-present in both the list A side and the NatWest T20 Blast - a total of 239 consecutive matches.

By missing Friday’s opening Royal London One-Day Cup game against Leicestershire at Emirates Old Trafford , it brings to an end Croft’s run of 116 straight list A games for the county.

But his Twenty20 record is still going.

(Image: Simon Pendrigh)

He has currently played an amazing 131 straight games for the Red Rose in the shortest form of the game.

Only two other players have played more consecutive matches for one team - Suresh Raina who has 156 for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League, and Virat Kholi who has played 144 for another IPL side, Royal Challengers Bangalore.

And Croft is surrounded by India legends, with MS Dhoni in fourth place in the all-time list with 121 games for Chennai.

Liam Livingstone will continue as stand-in captain for Lightning in place of Croft on Friday.

SQUADS

Lancashire: Liam Livingstone (Captain), James Anderson, Tom Bailey, Karl Brown, Jordan Clark, Alex Davies, Haseeb Hameed, Simon Kerrigan, Ryan McLaren, Danny Lamb, Arron Lilley, Stephen Parry, Luke Procter, Dane Vilas

Leicestershire: Eckersley (capt), Ali, Chappell, Cosgrove, Delport, Dexter, Griffiths, Hill, Klein, Parkinson, Pettini, Sayer, Sykes, Wells.