Left-hander Vic Craven is all set to make his seasonal debut for Yorkshire Phoenix in the televised opening

National League clash with Warwickshire Bears at Edgbaston on Sunday.

But Australian Matthew Elliott and England's Matthew Hoggard are both left out because they are still nursing strains.

Craven was forced to miss the Championship curtain-raiser at Headingley last week but the Pudsey Congs batsman has now fully recovered from the broken bone in his right hand which he sustained during a pre-season net session.

Yorkshire's director of cricket, Geoff Cope, was pleased with the progress Craven made last summer but the batsman still needs a string of good scores to establish himself in the first team.

Craven showed his quality with an aggressive career-best National League score of 59 against Durham at

Headingley last summer but his overall performances in the competition were disappointing with 106 runs from six innings.

Darren Gough, who proved his fitness in the crushing Championship win over Northants by grabbing six wickets, plays in his first coloured clothing game for Yorkshire since late in the 2001 season, but his England colleague Hoggard is still feeling twinges from the pulled stomach muscle which prevented him taking the field in the Northants second innings.

Elliott has yet to play this season after suffering a knee strain but Cope is optimistic that both will be fit for next

Wednesday's Championship encounter with Hampshire at the Rose Bowl.

"It would be foolish to risk them in a one-day match but both will have fitness tests on Monday to see if they are

back to full fitness," he said.

The 13-strong squad which Yorkshire have chosen for Edgbaston were due to play a 45-over practice match with

Durham at Headingley today, weather permitting.

Yorkshire Phoenix (v Warwickshire Bears) from: Wood, Lumb, McGrath, Blakey, Craven, Fellows, Gray,

Dawson, Gough, Silverwood, Sidebottom, Bresnan, Taylor.