Gary Keedy celebrated his England Lions call-up by claiming six wickets as Lancashire put leaders Durham on the back foot on the opening day of the County Championship Division One match at Old Trafford.

The 34-year-old spinner last represented his country at under-19 level, but gave the selectors a nudge with a season’s best display which saw him bowl 36 overs in the day and finish with 6-85.

And fellow left-arm spinner Stephen Parry, playing his first Championship match at Old Trafford, chipped in with 2-51 as Durham were bowled out for 270 in their first innings just before close.

Lancashire faced just five balls in their reply without scoring before rain brought an early end to play.

With injuries ruling Sajid Mahmood, Glen Chapple and Tom Smith out, Lancashire had to draft in Derbyshire’s Tom Lungley on a four-week loan on the eve of the game.

Durham openers Michael Di Venuto and Mark Stoneman plundered 69 off the first 15 overs.

But Keedy changed it all after coming on in the 17th over. First, he trapped Stoneman lbw on 33, then he forced Di Venuto, who became just the third player this season to pass 1,000 Championship runs on the way to his 53, into a false shot and Kyle Hogg claimed the catch at mid-off.

While Keedy twirled away at one end, Lungley bowled tightly at the other after lunch and claimed the wicket of Gordon Muchall lbw for 39 to break a 61-run partnership with Will Smith.

The Durham captain went next after edging a cut off Parry to Luke Sutton.

Keedy switched ends and had Dale Benkenstein caught at gully by Paul Horton. Then, off the final ball before tea, Mark Chilton pulled off a stunning one-handed catch at bat-pad to get rid of Phil Mustard as Durham went into the interval on 207-6.

Chilton clung on to another great chance at short leg at the start of the final session as Parry, who was hit for two sixes by Ian Blackwell, gained his revenge.

An eight-wicket stand of 56 by Liam Plunkett and Callum Thorp steadied the Durham ship. In the end it was Keedy, returning to the attack with the second new ball just five overs old, who broke the partnership when Chilton snapped up Thorp at short leg.

Lungley claimed his second in the next over, when Onions fended off a short-pitched delivery to short leg where Chilton claimed his fourth catch of the day.

And the spinners combined to round things off, with Parry catching Plunkett at backward point to give Keedy his sixth wicket.