Friends Provident t20 preview: Worcestershire Royals

T20 pedigree Have never gone beyond the quarter-finals, which they have reached twice. Captain Vikram Solanki Overseas players Shakib al-Hasan (Bangladesh) Phil Jaques (Australia) Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) Legendary hammer-throwing opener, still going in his forties. Steve Smith (Australia) Young all-round leg-spinner with bags of ability. Watch out for Vikram Solanki Brings the textbook to Twenty20 and has a superb record: an average of 28 and a strike-rate of 133. Prospects One of the outsiders although, if Jayasuriya finds form, that will all change. How they're hoping to get the punters in Their aim is to raise money for Help for Heroes, so they are bringing in the bomb disposal and military display teams to, er, entertain. Odds 18-1 Group fixtures 4 June Yorkshire Carnegie h 5.30pm 6 June Durham Dynamos a 2.30pm 10 June Nottinghamshire Outlaws h 5.40pm 11 June Northamptonshire Steelbacks a 6.50pm 13 June Nottinghamshire Outlaws a 2.30pm 18 June Warwickshire Bears h 4.40pm 21 June Derbyshire Falcons a 7.10pm 22 June Yorkshire Carnegie a 5.30pm 25 June Northamptonshire Steelbacks h 5.30pm 27 June Derbyshire Falcons h 2.30pm 5 July Lancashire Lightning a 5.30pm 7 July Leicestershire Foxes a 5.40pm 9 July Durham Dynamos h 5.30pm 11 July Leicestershire Foxes h 2.30pm 16 July Warwickshire Bears a 5.30pm 18 July Lancashire Lightning h 2.30pm