WORCESTERSHIRE skipper Daryl Mitchell has been included in the MCC squad for the season-opening Champion County match against Yorkshire.

The 31-year-old has been rewarded for a stellar 2014 campaign with a place in the party for the traditional curtain-raiser in Abu Dhabi, which starts on March 22 and will be played under floodlights with a pink ball.

Mitchell was the second highest scorer in LV= County Championship Division Two with 1,334 runs behind Hampshire's James Vince.

He also hit five centuries and was the County's leading run-scorer in the NatWest T20 Blast.

It will give him an opportunity to face the Yorkshire attack before the opening Division One fixture of the season against the reigning champions at New Road, which begins on April 12.

The MCC squad, which includes England Test captain Alastair Cook and will be skippered by Nick Compton, will also contest the Emirates Twenty20 tournament on March 20 along with Yorkshire, Lancashire and Sussex.

Compton joined Worcestershire on loan from Somerset for the 2013 Worcestershire-Australia tour match at New Road and opened alongside Mitchell.

MCC squad: Alastair Cook (Essex), Nick Compton (Middlesex, capt), Michael Carberry (Hampshire), James Hildreth (Somerset), Zafar Ansari (Surrey, Cambridge), Daryl Mitchell (Worcestershire), Sam Billings (Kent, Loughborough), Matt Dunn (Surrey), Graham Onions (Durham), Adam Riley (Kent, Loughborough), Chris Rushworth (Durham).