Yorkshire opener Joe Sayers does not want to be pigeon-holed as a County Championship specialist, admitting he would relish an opportunity to be part of the White Rose one-day revolution.

Even though Sayers, who may be rested for today’s clash with Middlesex at Abu Dhabi, is more suited to four-day cricket, he was not even able to pin down his place in the LV Division One side last season due to poor form.

But the 25-year-old left-hander demonstrated things are looking up thanks to a heartening 78-ball 55 in Wednesday’s 50-over Pro ARCH Trophy win against Surrey.

“It’s certainly a confidence-builder for me,” said Sayers, who shared a second-wicket partnership of 126 with centurion Michael Vaughan as Yorkshire amassed 295-8 in their 33-run success.

“I want to play a full season of Championship cricket if I can, I feel as though I have made some significant technical improvements from the off-season.

“I think that I can contribute to a winning one-day side as well. I have just got to keep scoring runs at a heavy rate whenever I can. Hopefully performances like that one (against Surrey) can help me.”

There could be an opportunity for Sayers at the top of the order in Championship cricket, due to the fact that Yorkshire’s opening partnerships were pretty much non-existent last year.

A repeat of the run of scores he produced in four-day cricket two summers ago, when he notched 149 not out, 123 and 187 in a six-week spell, would do very nicely for the Tykes.

But he would need to do something spectacular to break into the one-day arena, a place he has not graced competitively since September, 2006. He has never played a C&G or Friends Provident Trophy game for the county.

Gaining knowledge from players like Vaughan can only help him. He continued: “It was a great experience for me to bat for such a long period with Michael. I have batted a bit in the Championship side with him, but not a great deal in one-day cricket.

“He took some time, rightly so, to get in and set. In your first knock of the tour, it is good to get time in the middle. But he still managed to score at a run a ball.

“We were quite keen to build a solid platform for our lower-middle order, which we believe is very strong to attack at the end of the innings. I think we paced it just about right.

“Our total was very good on a slowish pitch, but in the second innings our fielding and bowling showed that there are things we can work on in our next game.”