JAMES ANDERSON plays for Lancashire as the Red Rose kick off their County Championship campaign today against Warwickshire.

The pace bowler, who is returning from a knee injury, leads the Lancashire attack - but there is no place for West Indian Daren Powell.

England stars Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott are also in action for Warwickshire.

Lancashire: S C Moore, T C Smith, P J Horton, A G Prince, M J Chilton, S J Croft, L D Sutton (wk), G Chapple (cpt), J M Anderson, S C Kerrigan, S I Mahmood

Warwickshire: I J Westwood (cpt), V Chopra, I R Bell, I J L Trott, J O Troughton, T R Ambrose (wk), C R Woakes, R Clarke, N M Carter, Imran Tahir, N S Tahir Umpires: R T Robinson, G Sharp Toss: Warwickshire won the toss and decided to field