WE ARE hitting top form at just the right time in the County Championship campaign.

Winning our match against Durham by an innings in just over three days was a fantastic effort last week, and we’re picking up some momentum now as we go into the second half of the season.

We’ve got eight Championship games left, starting with another big one against Warwickshire this week. Now it’s all about showing some consistency.

When Galey lost the toss, I think we thought it might be a 200 v 200 affair, especially given that a few games at Durham have been finished inside three days this season.

I was pleased with my own contribution of 40 in the first innings, when we eventually declared on a mammoth 557-6. So much for 200!

I don’t want to blow my own trumpet, but it was seamer-friendly on that first morning, and I thought if they bowled well, they would be able to bowl us out.

To get through that and to get a decent-ish score under my belt has put me in a really good place. It was an important start, to which Will Rhodes also contributed. He’s playing really well.

Personally, I feel as though I’m hitting the ball really well again after that knock.

The batters are coming into some good form, and the bowlers are getting wickets as well.

Galey 100 against Nottinghamshire, Jack Leaning 100, now Jonny Bairstow getting a double and Tim Bresnan 100 as well.

When you’re six wickets down and you’ve got Brezzy coming in averaging 80, it’s something that’s not too pleasing for the opposition.

As a team, we like playing against Warwickshire, and we’re going to continue going on the attack, as we have done all this year. I think it will be a good wicket at Edgbaston and a good game.

I’d love to say that England will win the Ashes 2-1, but Australia are a strong side.

It will be a hard-fought series and very exciting to see how a relatively fresh-faced England side from the last Ashes goes.

I certainly think they will perform stronger than people are expecting them to, and if they can play the attacking cricket they’re capable of, they will definitely be in with a shout of winning the series.

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