AS we head to Leicestershire today we have to find our character and bounce back after a couple of disappointing performances.

It is not just a test of the younger players that we have in the side but us senior players also need to step up to the plate.

Moeen Ali aside, we vastly under-performed at home to Glamorgan and were behind the eight ball from the start.

We weren’t strong enough. As a group batting, we needed someone to go on and make an ugly 30 or 40 to give ourselves a chance.

The pitches we are playing on at New Road this year are lively and can be difficult to bat on, but that is no excuse.

We have got a little bit of extra grass on them to have some pace and carry so they tend to give the bowlers a little help.

But you still have to bowl the ball in the right areas.

Phil Jaques and I have barely got a run recently so we need to knuckle down and set the tone, just like we did in our home game against Middlesex at the start of the season.

In that match, we were able to bat out that first morning and managed to build from there.

Of course, we have started the season earlier than ever before and that does make the conditions a lot more livelier.

But that is no excuse for losing inside two days to Glamorgan.

That match once again saw Mo playing two more fine knocks and he is really stepping up to the plate.

I don’t think he is doing much differently from last year — he has always had the ability.

Maybe he is a little stronger mentally this season and hopefully Mo’s purple patch can rub off on everyone else in the team.

There might be a time when he has a dip in form and that is when Mo is going to need the rest of us to perform.

Success can breed success and that is what we must all try to strive for.

We need to start that today at Leicestershire and play the kind of cricket we are capable of.

We made a good start to the season, beating Middlesex and holding Surrey to a draw, but our home games against Sussex and Glamorgan just haven’t been good enough.

They say winning becomes a habit but so does losing and we have to make sure that we don’t get into that routine again.

We all know what happened last year and are desperate to make sure that we don’t let it happen this time around.