Twenty20 cricket can present something new in almost every single game, which means you are always learning as a player.

Whether it’s teams coming up with different plans or fields or players coming up with different shots or different balls, this format develops a lot quicker than any of the others.

And that’s why we have got to watch as many different games as we possibly can do.

I’ve been encouraging our younger lads to sit down and watch games when they’re on the telly. If you can pick stuff up in terms of how different teams go about it, it won’t be so much of a shock when you come up against them later on in the competition.

When you’re playing in a game, you get wrapped up in it but when it’s on telly, it gives you a different perspective.

For example, we were able to watch Lancashire against Leicestershire a couple of nights before we played them at Old Trafford on Friday.

Obviously you’ve still got to execute your game-plans, but it does help a lot when you have already seen the other team play.

With my injury getting better all the time, it’s enabled me to get back to bowling during our last handful of fixtures, and that is also something that is ever evolving in Twenty20 cricket.

From years ago when you’d just come on and bowl line and length to stop the batsman scoring, you can’t do that nowadays. You’ve got to have varying balls, your slower balls and your yorkers.

For me, who maybe comes on to bowl the odd over, it’s just about taking the pace off and nailing those yorkers ball after ball.

This week sees us return to Championship cricket when we travel up to the Riverside to play Durham on Saturday, but we have got to play another Twenty20 game against Lancashire before that on Friday night.

It’s quite an open title race this year. Durham have come back well from last year, Lancashire have had a great seven games and Notts have lost ground. Somerset and Sussex are also dangerous.

We’re quite a bit behind but you never know. You’ve got to keep believing.

At this stage, you’d say it will be very tough for us to win it but, if we go and win six and draw two, stranger things have happened.