It will be interesting to see how our guys adapt when they return to Championship action this weekend after the unique demands placed on us by two weeks of Twenty20 cricket.

We could have no bigger incentive because our opponents at Hove this weekend are our old nemesis Warwickshire who have been putting one over us on a regular basis all the time I have been at Sussex and long before.

Maybe what happened at the 1993 NatWest final has given them a psychological advantage over us, although our dismal record of results at Edgbaston stretches back a further decade.

Ask any player and they will come up with several opponents, whether they be teams or individuals, who they tend to do well or badly against.

For years I always scored runs against Middlesex, most memorably, perhaps, at Arundel in 1999 when I made 163 in the National League which remains the Sussex record for the competition.

They have clawed their way back against me in recent years, but, as in all sports, you have your bogey teams and ours are definitely the Bears.

On paper Warwickshire are now stronger than us and they will be weakened for this particular fixture by the absence of Jim Troughton who is with the England one-day squad.

It is the first of two successive home games for us and good results against Warwickshire and then at Arundel, where we face Essex in a fortnight, could put an entirely different slant on our season.

It's obviously a big ask to win both games, but recent results against Warwickshire suggest there will be a positive outcome either way and the same goes for Arundel where there should be a result if the weather doesn't intervene.

Perhaps we should not be looking too far ahead but, if we won the next two we would have five wins and that would virtually guarantee that we would be playing in Division One again next season.

Then we might be able to re-assess our goals for the rest of the summer.

We have pledged to try and play attacking cricket in the Championship and it obviously helps that we have got two genuine strike bowlers now in James Kirtley and Mushtaq Ahmed.

I said after we beat Kent at Tunbridge Wells three weeks ago that I would be delighted if we split our 16 games between wins and defeats because eight victories would get us comfortably over 200 points and would mean a top two finish. Draws? We don't seem to do them anymore!

Apart from Billy Taylor, who is close to a return after struggling for a month with a thigh strain, everyone is fit and the form shown by the likes of Jason Lewry and Paul Hutchison in the last fortnight in the one-day games has been very encouraging.

There is a lot to play for and I would be lying if I said that we would not cherish a win over Warwickshire more than any other this season.

Saturday June 27