TODAY is a very big game for us when we take on Warwickshire.

People will be calling this derby match the one that decides the LV Championship Division Two.

But we cannot let ourselves get caught up in the magnitude of this game — we must play our four-day cricket the way that we have been doing all season.

We must play sensibly and concentrate on our disciplines. When we are out on the field it’s about the 11 players out there and when we are batting it’s about the guys at the crease.

Of course, people will say that we have a weakened attack without the likes of Kabir Ali and Simon Jones, but you can’t forget the players that are there.

It is now their turn to step up to the plate and deliver what we know they can. We have total faith in the younger guys and we certainly don’t think our bowling is as weak as som people seem to think it is.

The Pro40 is now turning into a run-fest. I suppose it’s how the organiser had first envisaged it — an extension of the Twenty20 competition.

Steve Davies and Vikram Solanki are arguably the best opening pair in the country bar none. They have opened the innings in the last two games with 180-odd at Taunton and 160 against Gloucester-shire — a phenomenal display.

But it is Davo I believe who has gone to another level. He has scored more than 400 runs already, two centuries and is averaging more than 90.

He has become a player that is so hard to bowl at. He scores heavily through the off-side before stepping across his stumps to flick you away through the leg-side.

Davo is a player so like Sanath Jayasuriya but plays his shots in a classier way and I don’t mean any disrespect to Jayasuriya.

With the winter tours coming up and Tim Ambrose seemingly out of the England set-up, it would be criminal if the selectors didn’t take another look at him.

Not just for the one-day game, but for the longer stuff as well.

What has been disappointing in the Pro40 games recently is our fielding. There can be no other way to describe it other than terrible. As a group. we must hold our hands up and all take responsibility for it. It hasn’t been good enough and it is something that we must work on.

The game at Somerset last week was a fine effort by all of us and I have to admit I was pretty pleased with the way that I bowled.

To restrict them to under four an over was special, obviously I had a bit of a shocker dropping that catch, but I just didn’t see it — I have got a massive bruise on my hand from where it hit me.

At the beginning of last week we went through our fitness and bleep tests — we all blitzed them, much to Dave Lowe’s surprise!