Campbell admits that before his arrival, red-ball cricket was the primary focus of the north east county.<\/p>\n
But the former head coach of the Netherlands wanted to create a team to compete across all fronts.<\/p>\n
Durham have lifted three County Championship titles, but they are one of only four counties yet to win the T20 Blast.<\/p>\n
They have only been to Finals Day twice, their best finish in the competition being defeat to Northamptonshire Steelbacks in the final in 2016.<\/p>\n
Last year, they sneaked into the quarter-finals in fourth place in the North Group only to lose away to Surrey.<\/p>\n
But they have been stronger again this season with eight wins from 13 completed matches in finishing as runners-up to Lancashire and they have this home quarter-final with Hampshire as their reward.<\/p>\n
“I’ve made it no secret that when I came to Durham, I wanted us to be the best club in England,” said Campbell.<\/p>\n
“To do that, you can’t just be good at red-ball cricket. You have to be good at everything.<\/p>\n
“Making the quarter-final last year, everyone was pretty happy about it, but to draw someone like Surrey first up down south is a big ask.<\/p>\n
“So we made it a real goal to host our own quarter-final – we wanted to bring someone from down south up to us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campbell admits that before his arrival, red-ball cricket was the primary focus of the north east county. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-118976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}