Jonny Bairstow hopes to take another notable step in his cricketing career today by making his first appearance for England on his home ground at Headingley.

The Yorkshire wicketkeeper-batsman is in the reckoning to play in the third and final NatWest one-day international against the West Indies, over whom England hold an unassailable 2-0 series lead.

Bairstow, 22 and born in Bradford, is enjoying an impressive summer, having already scored two centuries in the LV= County Championship for the White Rose, as well as making his first three Test appearances against the West Indians.

"It would be a great opportunity for me to play in front of a home crowd," said Bairstow, who has played in six previous one-day internationals but neither of the first two against Darren Sammy's men at Southampton or The Oval during the last week.

"Any game you get the opportunity to play at Headingley, whether it be a Yorkshire game or an England game, is a great chance to put on a display for the people of Leeds."

By his own admission Bairstow's first foray into Test cricket did not go as well as he would have liked, with a top-score of only 18 in four innings after making his debut at Lord's.

"To make my Test debut at Lord’s was a great moment for me, a very proud moment," he said.

"To play in the rest of the series was pleasing, not necessarily doing as well as I’d have hoped. But that’s just one of those things."

Bairstow immediately came under scrutiny, having been struck on the body by Kemar Roach early in his first innings at Lord's before getting a leading edge to mid-on off the same man at Trent Bridge, sparking fears he may have an issue with the short ball.

However, the man himself disagrees, adding: "I only got out once to the short ball, so in my eyes there wasn’t anything there.

"It was just one ball, that was all it was. I don’t really take any notice of things like that. It wasn’t something that I was really bothered about."