ENGLAND, champions of the world — has a certain ring to it, doesn’t it?

Seeing England win the World Twenty20 tournament should give the game here a massive boost.

The victory will give the sport a little more publicity and a bit of a lift.

Hopefully, we can carry on playing some entertaining cricket when we start the Friends Provident t20 next month and perhaps we might get a few more through the gate now that England are world champions.

We played two warm-up Twenty20 games last week down at Oxford MCCU and won both matches.

It was a good work-out and everyone in the squad who was fit played.

It was good for everyone to be involved in at least one of the games — some of them played both.

Everyone managed to get their bowling done, getting their yorkers in and change-ups, so that was good.

Not everyone had a bat, though, because the lads at the top of the order got the runs on the board early doors, but we have got a few nets to do that.

Hopefully, Phil Jaques, Vikram Solanki and Moeen Ali can get us off to a good start when the competition starts, then the rest of the lads can chip in.

James Cameron is looking a very good player, he has come on very well. He is doing a good job with both bat and ball, so hopefully that will continue for the rest of the year.

It is a step up for him having come from grade cricket in Australia — I know as I played three years in the same competition as him in Perth — but he has managed it very well. He has got a good future ahead of him.

Last week also saw Mo get called up to the England Lions squad to face Bangladesh at Derby tomorrow and we are really pleased for him.

He has earned this call-up — he’s been fantastic these first six weeks of the season. Hopefully, he will get a few runs down at Derby.

It just goes to show that if you are playing county cricket then you have got a chance, it’s up to you to put the runs on the board and that is what Mo has done.

We came up short in all departments in our Clydesdale Bank 40 match against Lancashire Lightning at New Road on Sunday.

With the bat, we were not massively short of a good score, probably 10 or 20 runs off where we would have liked to have been.

However, with the ball, the first powerplay again killed us. We didn’t nail our plans and they got away from us, it made their lives a lot easier in the middle period.

We are a young attack — Gareth Andrew and myself are the oldest at 26 — and we have got three other young guys and Mo as an inexperienced spinner, that doesn’t help.

But we all know what we are supposed to be doing. Age isn’t an excuse, we have to nail our plans.

We have all played enough cricket by now to know what we are supposed to be doing — we have just got to be better.

Stephen Moore played well and, to be fair to him, he didn’t get many one-day hundreds for us unfortunately, but he played very well.

He is a good player and they do say form is temporary, class is permanent.