SOMETIMES people look at Twenty20 cricket and analyse it the same way they do with the four-day or traditional one-day stuff.

You can’t do that because the margins are so fine and just one over can change the entire complexity of the match.

Now I’m not making excuses — we know that we haven’t been good enough and we are not trying to hide from that fact. We also know that it is not just this season where we have let ourselves down in Twenty20.

The defeat at Somerset on Sunday pretty much sealed our fate and the coach journey home as you can imagine was not great.

The pitch at Taunton was good for 200 and when a team gets that score it is always going to be difficult to surpass it.

We went chasing their total and we lost wickets.

You can sustain chasing more than 10 a over for a couple of overs but not for a long period of time and once it goes up to 13, 14 or 15 then it can become near impossible.

Twenty20 is so different from the other forms of the game. Once you lose the mo-mentum it can be hard to get it back.

At Edgbaston we restricted Warwickshire to 150-odd and we were probably guilty of not going after the rate early enough.

But we have to be brutally honest about all of this, we are paid to produce success and that is something that we haven’t managed to do and we haven’t for a few years.

If someone could bottle a recipe for success and sell it at ASDA they would make a fortune.

Sadly, we are still searching for that winning formula in this competition.

The slower bowlers have so far had the better economy rates, but I think that is the time of the innings that they bowl.

We usually come on after the six over power-plays and that is the best time to come on.

Daryl Mitchell is a proven bowler in this competition for us and he has shown that again this season. There really isn’t anyone like him.

We have three games left in this competition and hopefully we can go out on a high and take something positive into our Championship match on Sunday.

Our main aim was to get promoted back to the first division and there are still 10 games left. After the way we performed last season in the Championship we knew that.

If we can take a few positives out of our last few games in the Twenty20 then we can change our focus to the four-day stuff.

We are also nearing the start of the Pro40 too, so there is still a heck of a lot to play for this season.