IN-FORM Keaton Jennings believes England one-day international hopefuls must follow their county’s style of play first rather than try to “blindly” match the template Eoin Morgan and his side follow as they bid to catch the eye.

The Lancashire opener has raced out of the blocks at the start of this summer’s Royal London One-Day Cup, which has seen the Red Rose county lose one and win one of their first two North Group matches.

Jennings has scored 209 runs in his two outings so far - 136 in Thursday’s defeat against champions Notts Outlaws, and 73 in beating former county Durham on Sunday.

His haul of runs leaves him just one behind Warwickshire’s Sam Hain, who is the competition’s leading runscorer so far.

Jennings, 25, played one-day cricket for the Lions and the North side in the ECB’s North v South one-day series back in March, so his chances of higher honours are growing.

During that series, the players as a group were addressed by members of the England management, including Andrew Strauss, and given the outline of the aggressive ODI game plan that has been a feature of England’s play in the countdown to next summer’s ICC World Cup.

They were also given a 15-minute individual ‘get to know you’ meeting with director of England cricket Strauss and selectors Mick Newell and Angus Fraser, where they were asked about their hopes of selection for the World Cup.

Ahead of today's North Group clash with Northamptonshire at Wantage Road (11am), Jennings said: “There's a formula England want to play in their one-day cricket.

“But you can’t follow the template blindly because they can pick and choose the guys that they want in order to play a role.

“For us, I would say we need to be more about the template that Livvy (Liam Livingstone) and Chappie (Glen Chapple) decide we need to play.

“It's about how the team want to play their cricket, whether you want to attack up front or be conservative.

“There’s a lot of different ways you can go about it.

“I opened last year for Durham in the 50-over comp and batted middle order for the Lions.

“I'm a massive team man. I want the team to win, to win trophies, be in and around that winning culture.

“If that means I don't play, cool. If that means you opening the batting, cool. If that means you bat nine, cool. That's the role in which Livvy has selected you to play.

“As long as we're winning games, hopefully I'll keep developing my skills within that.”

Early North Group leaders Lancashire, who sit top courtesy of a very healthy net run-rate, will go in search of their second win from three matches against a Northants side who beat champions Notts away at Welbeck last time out.

They also have a lost one, won one record. All-rounder Luke Procter, a Championship winner with Lancashire in 2011 and a T20 Blast winner in 2015, is in line to face his home county for the first time since leaving Emirates Old Trafford in the winter.