WORCESTERSHIRE Rapids are the team to catch at the halfway stage of their Royal London One-Day Cup North Group programme.

Skipper Joe Leach’s side have won three of their opening four games heading into Tuesday’s clash with Leicestershire Foxes at Blackfinch New Road (11am).

There have been victories over Derbyshire Falcons, Yorkshire Vikings and Lancashire with the solitary setback against Durham Jets.

It is the same position Rapids were in at the end of last season’s group programme and they will hope for a repeat outcome in 2018.

Head coach Kevin Sharp said: “We are halfway through the tournament, there are four big games to come and if we win them all we will be in the quarter-finals.

“We’ve had a difficult Championship start and that win against Derbyshire in the first cup game was a big tonic to everyone because we’d been so near and yet so far in the Championship games.

“That win was good for all of us confidence-wise and so far so good.”

Sharp has named a 13-man squad to face Foxes with Callum Ferguson replacing Travis Head, who is now on Australia duty, as the overseas player.

Rapids from: Moeen, Clarke, Ferguson, Fell, Mitchell, D’Oliveira, Cox, Whiteley, Barnard, Leach, Tongue, Brown, Morris.