YORKSHIRE and Middlesex will show their strength in depth as they contest the Second XI Trophy final under the Headingley floodlights today.

The two counties, who have shared the last three Championship titles at first-team level and fought out that thrilling climax at Lord's last September, will field young teams including several England Under-19 internationals and other familiar names.

Yorkshire are captained by Will Rhodes, who has gained considerable first-team experience in red- and white-ball cricket since leading England to the semi-finals of the Under-19 World Cup in Dubai in 2014 – and he is joined by two other members of that squad in Jonny Tattersall and Josh Shaw.

Tattersall recently returned to the club after spending some time in Australia, while Shaw impressed on a loan spell with Gloucestershire last summer.

Yorkshire have been forced to make three changes to the team that beat Somerset in the semi-finals, with Matt Fisher, Karl Carver and Matthew Waite all called up to the first-team squad for the Specsavers County Championship fixture at Taunton which starts tomorrow.

That leaves James Wainman as the only other member of their squad with first-team experience, having made two appearances in the NatWest T20 Blast last season.

Yet they also include one of the brightest batting talents in the country in Harry Brook, an opener from Burley-in-Wharfedale who toured India with England Under-19s last winter and is hoping for selection in next year's World Cup in New Zealand.

Rhodes said: "We've lost a couple of guys to the first team but we've got a lot of faith in the youngsters coming through our Academy – and with it being a final, everyone is raring to go."

Middlesex have won the Second XI T20 competition in each of the last two seasons and have carried that form into 50-over cricket this year.

Robbie White, a 21-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman who has made six first-class appearances for Loughborough MCCU, played the match-winning innings in their semi-final win in Blackpool against a Lancashire team who have dominated this competition in recent years.

He has been supported by George Scott and Ryan Higgins, the Zimbabwe-born all-rounder who has played plenty of first-team cricket in both the Blast and the Royal London Cup.

Arthur Godsal was an England Under-19s team-mate of Brook in India last winter and Middlesex will have the youngest player in the final in Jack Davies, a 17-year-old who plays Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire, attends Wellington College – whose recent old boys include Surrey's Curran brothers – and will therefore have a day off school to travel to Headingley.

Richard Johnson, the former England seamer who coaches Middlesex's second team as well as their fast bowlers, said: "We've had a good amount of success at second-team level in the last couple of years but that's almost a by-product for us.

"Our main thing is trying to develop players for the first team, rather than winning tournaments – although it's nice to have that as well.

"The guys are excited about going up to Headingley and playing under the lights. It's a good stage for both teams to show what they can do."