A TRIP to 10 Downing Street awaits Lindum Under-13s if they can create history by winning the ECB national club championship, which begins tomorrow.

The team are the first from Lincolnshire to have made the finals, to be held at Oakham School in Rutland.

They will play Ealing (Middlesex), Old Elizabethans (Worcestershire), Old Leodiensians (Leeds), Newport (south Wales) and Spencer (south London) in a round-robin format over three days.

Lindum coach John Alford believes his team can be competitive – and, possibly, set up a meeting with David Cameron.

"Unless we play five teams packed with superstars I am confident we will do quite well," said Alford. "This is understandably a difficult thing for them to do, but I've been telling the players just to treat each match as a normal game.

"The winners meet the Prime Minister, which shows you in how much esteem this event is held.

"The team must remain focused, though, and not get carried away by the excitement of it all.

"It's a terrific achievement to have come this far, but I think we have a chance of doing well."

The team are being sponsored by the Adam Gibbons Sports Foundation Trust and Paul Maplethorpe Building Services.