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After an opening weekend which saw draws in all three Group One fixtures, the field is wide open as the Pears venture up to Derby tomorrow for the second match of the Championship season. With Adam Finch dropping out of the first-team squad to play with the second XI at Kidderminster, Alzarri Joseph completes the twelve in contention for selection after completing his spell of quarantine. Dillon Pennington is the most likely to make way for the West Indian if, as seems likely, his availability merits inclusion in the side; elsewhere, as the stattos and number-crumbers have now concluded that Jake Libby's innings against Essex was the second-longest in the County Championship since records began, just two minutes short of Jason Gallian's 11-hour-23-minute 312 for Lancashire in 1996, Worcestershire will be hoping he's got enough energy left to go the distance again.

Venue: County Ground, Derby

Last Visit: May 2017, Worcestershire won by an innings and 42 runs

Highest Pears innings: 560 all out, July 1993

Highest individual Pears score: 246 - Stephen Colin Moore, May 2005

Highest Pears partnership: 309, 1st wicket - Henry Knollys Foster & Frederick Lloyd Bowley, August 1901