WE have a big Yorkshire Bank 40 game at Kent tonight and it’s on TV and under the lights, which is always exciting, so we just need to go out and perform well like we did against Sussex at Hove.

There were also a lot of positives to take out of Sunday’s YB40 defeat to Notts — I thought Gareth Andrew was outstanding and a couple of the guys bowled pretty well too. We still remain confident after that Hove victory and we will look to take that into tonight’s game at Canterbury.

Gaz has done that pretty regularly in recent years and we’ve promoted him to bat at six permanently in the one-day format and he deserves that rather than being at seven or eight. Hopefully, he can take a lot of confidence from that, prove his worth at number six and do that on a regular basis as he can certainly be damaging to opposition teams.

It was a really good innings by Alex Hales, particularly after we got off to a good start with the wicket of Michael Lumb in the first over. He is difficult to bowl at when he’s in that kind of form because he hits it all around the ground, especially with the relatively short boundary at the one end, which was difficult to defend.

Sammy (Thilan Samaraweera) is certainly not renowned for his fielding and I don’t think he particularly enjoys it too much, but he pulled off a spectacular catch at short mid-wicket.

It was great to see that as he’s not getting any younger and isn’t the most mobile, but he’s still got great hands in the short catching positions.

The Duckworth-Lewis system seems to have gone against us a few times now and I can’t really remember it helping us out ever.

It is what it is, though, and you can’t do anything about it. Generally speaking, it is probably fairer than the old run-rate system — but that would have probably been better for us on Sunday.

I’ve never seen in those sort of circumstances a team batting first actually lose runs from their total. I thought we’d be defending something around 140, but it ended up being 126, which took six off our final total and that seemed strange.

We then play Kent in a LV= County Championship Division Two match at Canterbury, starting on Friday and hopefully we can start getting some points on the board in that competition.

Although we are bottom at the moment, we are still in there fighting and promotion remains the target. There’s a long way to go and it’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Against Leicestershire last week, it was a pretty dead pitch for the seamers, but it did spin a little bit, which gave us some encouragement when we got the runs on the board in the first innings.

We tried to declare and give ourselves enough time to bowl them out twice, but unfortunately we probably didn’t bowl as well as we could have. Still, you have to give a lot of credit to Ned Eckersley and Ramnaresh Sarwan, who both batted well.

I thought Shaaiq Choudhry bowled well for us — it doesn’t often spin a lot at New Road and Moeen (Ali) is our number one spinner, so he hasn’t had a lot of opportunities, but came in and did a really good job.