Durham will play Worcestershire in the first match of the inaugural Natwest T20 Blast. This is the new T20 league of the counties replacing the Friends Life T20 competition. The English counties will face each other off in the shorter formats. The English veteran Paul Collingwood will be captaining the home side against Daryl the captain of the visiting county. The match is to be played in Chester-le-street stadium on 16th of May at 17:30 local time. The players to watch in this match will be the captain Collingwood and the Pakistani spinner from Worcestershire Saeed Ajmal. This will be the first match of the north division.