YORKSHIRE are not too far away from getting it right in a Twenty20 season – and this could still be the one for us if we beat Northamptonshire at Headingley tonight and other results go our way.

We've played a quality of cricket at stages this season that we perhaps haven't done in the past.

With the bat, it's been brilliant the vast majority of times. Our bowling has also been good on the whole.

We know our plan and that it works. It's just about getting that consistency in the next few years to be able to challenge in every campaign like others do.

There are counties who are always there or thereabouts – Northants for example. We want to be one of those names and I believe it's pretty close to happening.

We may not be in the strong position we'd hoped for going into this final group game but all the lads are still very confident in our ability to win matches. If we do that against Northants and the other results go for us, we can still be celebrating silverware.

We know what to do at home. We know where to score, where we want to bowl. We just know our ground and conditions fairly well.

We've set the boundary the same most games so that we know where we're targeting with our right and left-handers.

After the jubilation of Friday night, the way the atmosphere was, Tim Bresnan getting six-for and knee-sliding, everything was brilliant.

It was a great night – one everyone will remember for a while, I reckon.

It was brilliant for Brez. To see him get six-for, perform well and beat the Lankys at home, that just topped off a period as captain which is coming to an end with Gary Ballance about to return from his finger injury. He is in the squad for tonight's game.

As much as Brez has done a really good job as captain, it can't have been easy for him coming into it halfway through the season. He's been really supportive of everyone in the squad.

I think he'll remember that Lancashire game for a long time.

The flip-side was obviously Leicestershire on Saturday. We batted really well and played strong shots to get to 182-5.

It wasn't one of those pitches where you could whack sixes every ball, so we felt we'd got a really good score on the board with the way Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Shaun Marsh played.

But Leicester batted really well and had a day where they nailed their batting plan.

I didn't think we were too far off the mark with the ball. There were a few bad balls in the middle that got put away but it was certainly more of a case of them winning the game, rather than us losing it.

If we don't go through to the quarter-finals, it will be the games in the middle of the tournament that will have cost us – the run of a rain-off at Birmingham and then three losses against Notts, Derbyshire and Durham.

That will be the key period if we end up looking back with regret.

It will be great to have Gary back in the team. In all formats, he's calm and scores bagfuls of runs. He has done for many years now.

Hopefully that will get everyone a boost and we can have a good end to the season.

England begin their Test series against the West Indies under lights at Edgbaston today. For me, it will be particularly interesting to see how Mark Stoneman goes opening the batting.

I think he's deserved his chance for a couple of years now. Batting down at The Oval has added even more runs onto his season rather than playing up at Durham, where you could get a couple of balls with your name on.

He could be a very useful asset in Australia this winter because he's pretty good on the short ball, both cutting and pulling.

If he goes well in the next three Tests, he will be first in line for that first Test at the Gabba in November.