DERBIES against Warwickshire at New Road are always a fixture we look forward to and, hopefully, we can give a good account of ourselves in the latest meeting.

We lost by 181 runs at Edgbaston in LV= County Championship Division One last month but, apart from that, we have played pretty well and been competitive in all our four-day fixtures this term.

A lot has been spoken and written about our decision to move wicketkeeper Ben Cox to fly-slip in our 15-run win at Northamptonshire Steelbacks in the NatWest T20 Blast.

Twenty20 cricket is an innovative game.

We’ve seen switch-hits, slower balls and yorkers and the decision to move Coxy seems to have caught the imagination.

We tried the tactic in our internal squad games in Abu Dhabi and, as a captain, you are always looking for something different to give you a slight advantage over an opponent.

I was a little bit apprehensive about moving Coxy from behind the stumps for two overs because it was the first time I had tried it in a match and Josh Cobb was going well.

At that stage, Northamptonshire needed around 14 runs an over and I just felt we needed an extra fielder behind the bat on the off-side.

It seemed the appropriate time to try it. MS Dhoni stood back to spinners in a Test match for India against England.

With all the media coverage we have received, the surprise element might have gone out of it.

It’s something we may or may not use again in the future.

We scored 211-3 and Northamptonshire almost got to 200. It was great to have Moeen Ali back in the side – he played magnificently in his innings of 90.

Saeed Ajmal finished with 3-53 and Ed Barnard cost just 31 runs in his four overs as Northants closed on 197-7.

We had another thriller against Nottinghamshire Outlaws when we slipped to an 11-run defeat at New Road.

We got off to a great start with early wickets but Nottinghamshire came back at us.

There was a bit of a momentum swing with Darren Sammy’s onslaught on Jack Shantry in the last over and Nottinghamshire’s 169-5 was a decent score.

Shants has been fantastic over a long period of time, and bowled the penultimate over against Northamptonshire and conceded five runs. He will bounce back.

Moeen made 36 and we were above the run-rate but lost our way in the middle as we struggled with partnerships and lost wickets.

There were some soft dismissals in the middle period with sweeps and reverse sweeps, which were not the best shots to play.

Ross Whiteley made a brave 36 from 18 balls and we just fell short.

I took a one-handed catch at short mid-wicket to remove Steve Mullaney.

It’s one of those things you work hard at in training and it’s pleasing when it pays off.

It’s just an instinctive thing – sometimes the catches you have time to think about are more difficult to hang on to.