Canterbury is looking to its younger players to lift their performances during the remainder of the Shell Trophy season which gets underway again on Thursday.

With the side's international players now likely to be committed to matches against Sri Lanka and Pakistan for the rest of the summer, the chance is there for several of the players of the future to stake their claim.

Canterbury, which is still without an outright win in the competition to date, plays Otago at the Village Green at QEII Park.

Otago beat Canterbury in their last outing by seven wickets at Alexandra.

The side for this week's game is: Gary Stead (captain), Harley James, Robbie Frew, Jarod Englefield, Michael Papps, Aaron Redmond, Gareth Hopkins, Stephen Cunis, Marcel McKenzie, Carl Anderson, Ryan Burson, Wade Cornelius.

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