Hell has no fury like a Yorkshire cricket committee scorned.

So it was scary but extremely satisfying to see the rumblings of discontent around Headingley after we soundly beat Yorkshire in what was effectively three days.

After winning the Championship last year, the White Roses have had a dreadful start to this year and we were the fifth team to beat them in six games.

Having said that, we deserved victory as we played our best cricket of the season. Put in to bat on what looked like a typical seaming Headingley wicket, we were struggling at 120-5 but a wonderful partnership between our two talented young keepers, Prior and Ambrose, set us up for a total of over 400 and maximum batting points for only the second time this year.

It was Ambrose who went on to make the really big score and his temperament was as impressive as his range of strokes, boding well for Sussex's future.

With the score on the board it was up to the bowlers to step forward and take centre stage. Yorkshire's batting line-up has a certain fallibility about it without David Byas and Darren Lehmann and we put in the best bowling performance of the summer, hitting consistent lines and lengths and letting the pitch do the rest.

We had a meeting before the game against Yorkshire in which we reassessed our goals for the season. There was a feeling that if we continued to chase our pre-season goal, which was to win the Championship, it would distract us from the task in hand of trying to win each game.

We therefore decided we would now aim for at least the five wins probably needed to ensure safety in division one. After that we can assess the goals again. If we win the next five games then the original goal might just be back on track!

Our stand-in skipper James Kirtley has come into some great form at the right time. His ten wickets in the Yorkshire match made the England selectors sit up and listen and he has been chosen for England's one-day squad for the triangular series with India and Sri Lanka at the beginning of July.

His bowling just gets better and better. He has certainly not lost any pace since the remodelling of his action and, arguably, he is swinging the ball later than before. I have no doubt he would cause international batsmen problems.

For now we are in Leicester preparing for the C&G fourth round. There is a feeling that we are finding form at just the right time.

Our win in the last one-day game against Essex gave the squad a real boost and if we beat Leicestershire we would be only two games away from a Lord's final.

We then have Yorkshire to contend with again. Lehmann will be back at Arundel next week and that means we will have to be on top of our game if we are to get another win and work our way towards safety from relegation.

I'd like to see the faces of the Yorkshire committee if we did manage to beat them twice inside three weeks.

Thursday June 20