GLOUCESTERSHIRE captain Michael Klinger thinks England’s attacking attitude in their one-day internationals this year will rub off on the county sides as they enter the Royal London Cup this weekend.

Certainly, Gloucestershire will be going into the tournament on a high after a successful couple of weeks at the Cheltenham Festival which Klinger hopes will be the platform to push on to better things this season.

England won their last three one dayers against New Zealand this summer, and Klinger said: “I suppose the way that England played it (one dayers), if teams follow that, it is certainly going to be aggressive cricket all around.”

Gloucestershire’s own limited overs performances recently have been encouraging, with wins over Hampshire and Somerset this month in the T20 Blast.

But converting quick thrash cricket to the longer one-day format is a whole different ball game. Klinger warned: “ It is dangerous going out there to play it truly as a 20-20 but it will be interesting how teams approach it.”

Team selection at this stage of the season and with big names like Iain Cockbain and Hamish Marshall sidelined will be crucial for Gloucestershire’s Royal London Cup hopes, which start on Sunday at Scarborough where they play Yorkshire.

Klinger added: “We haven’t actually talked about it yet and I will have to sit down with Daws (head coach Richard Dawson) and work out our approach.

“A lot of it is down to the personnel you have and, at the moment, we will probably be without Cockbain for the whole of the one-day series and Marshall for at least half of it.

“You have to have a game plan that fits your personnel so we will work that out in the coming weeks.

“It might give us a lot more bowling options in that we can play the all-rounders in the top six and play a couple of spinners and a few quicks. It may give us a lot of bowling options as the likelihood is that you may end up playing on a lot of used wickets so to have a couple of spinners and the pace bowlers is going to be useful I think. “

Meanwhile, after only one defeat in four matches throughout the Cheltenham Festival, the Australian ace reviewed the visit to the north of Gloucestershire and reflected: “It has been a good couple of weeks for us.  They boys really played for each other during the two weeks so we hope we can keep it going.

“It is a lot easier captaining when your team is playing from the front.  You can set more attacking fields and give the batters a little bit more. And it is an easy job for a captain when the bowlers are doing such a good job as well.”

Gloucestershire return from Scarborough to face Derbyshire at the County Ground next Wednesday before tackling Leicestershire at Grace Road on Friday July 31, Somerset in Bristol two days later and round-off their Royal London Cup sequence on August 5 with a visit to New Road, Worcestershire.

Gloucestershire play two more cup matches in August at Northamptonshire on August 17 and home to Surrey the next day.