Bresnan replaces Finn for MCC

Date released: 8 April 2009

Tim Bresnan in full-flight for Yorkshire There will be one change to the MCC team for the season-opening match against the Champion County, Durham CCC starting on Thursday. Tim Bresnan, the Yorkshire seam bowler, will replace Steve Finn of Middlesex.

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Finn has pulled out of the fixture as a precautionary measure after landing awkwardly on his right ankle in a Middlesex practice match against Sussex at Hove.

Angus Fraser, Middlesex CCC Director of Cricket, said: "After leaving the field in discomfort last Thursday, we had hoped Steve’s ankle would have settled down after three days of rest.

Finn: Out of the MCC team "He bowled on Monday and it hadn’t improved as much as we’d hoped and therefore we couldn’t guarantee that he would get through the MCC game. It would not be in anyone’s interests for Steve to push things at this stage of the season."

Bresnan will hope to impress the watching England selectors in an MCC team captained by Robert Key and filled with players vying for an international call-up.

The MCC team was picked in conjunction with the England and Wales Cricket Board.

Live ball-by-ball commentary of this match will be available from www.lords.org