Jennings out to perform an old pals axe against former club!

RED hot Keaton Jennings says playing against his former county when Lancashire take on Durham in the Royal London One-day Cup tomorrow.

The Red Rose batsman goes into the North Group game at the Riverside having scored three successive centuries.

His tons in the Specsavers County Championship against Somerset and Nottinghamshire were followed by a superb 136 in Lancashire’s opening One-day Cup clash with Notts at Emirates Old Trafford on Thursday night.

But it wasn’t enough to stop the Red Rose slipping to a nine-run defeat at the hands of last year’s champions.

Now Jennings returns to Durham, who he left at the end of last season to join Lancashire, and is expecting it to be tough.

“The banter started quite a while ago,” he revealed. “There are advantages and disadvantages to me playing against my former team-mates.

“Obviously, I know some of their weak points and, hopefully, I can pass those on to the lads in the dressing room and we can try and take advantage of them.

“But the Durham players will know some of my weaknesses too and will try and work on those.

“It will be a tough game because they have got some good young players.”

And Jennings admits there were mixed emotions at the end of the Notts defeat, despite his 136.

“I feel I’ve hit the ball well for a period of time,” he said. “The fruits of that are bearing at the moment.

“But when you’ve lost, you walk into the changing room and you don’t have that sense of elation. It’s a quiet changing room and there’s a sense of disappointment.

“I’ve always said you’ve got to win games. Whether you get nought, a hundred or whatever, you want to win games of cricket. So to walk in to a disappointed changing room is tough.

“Hopefully we can bounce back on Sunday and put in a good performance.”