IT hasn't been the greatest week for me being injured as I'm not the most patient of people.

In fact the physio has had to nail me down to try and stop me from doing things and he only let me start running again yesterday.

The problem started a few weeks ago with a sore back and then, in the game at Chesterfield the other week, my calf popped when I set off for a run when batting and it blew up again against New Zealand.

I'm not ruling out making a return today but it would be very unlikely so I'm hoping that I can be back on Thursday for the game against Somerset.

These Twenty20 matches are coming thick and fast and today Graeme Hick will equal Graham Gooch's competitive games record.

That is a fantastic achievement and one I don't think will ever be broken.

I was reading in the programme during the Glouces-tershire match a piece about the big man and it said his age is 42 - I thought that was just going to be the number of sixes that he is going to score in this competition.

He played beautifully in that match as did Vikram Solanki.

Despite being injured I went up to Northampton on Friday for more treatment and I thou-ght that we did pretty well to restrict them to 180.

They have got the likes of Lance Klusener, arguably the best one-day player four years ago, Nicky Boje and Johann Louw and they didn't bat.

But they got off to a great start with the ball and put us on the back-foot early on and in Twenty20 cricket when you are behind the rate it is so hard to change the momentum.

Ben Smith and Stephen Moore batted well but once the rate is up at 10 an over things get very tough.

It was strange to see the ground staff at Northampton prepare the wicket when we were warming up.

They cut it and rolled it only two hours before the start of the match, but speaking to a couple of their lads they said that it was the norm for them.

Today we face Warwickshire and no matter what competition we play them in it is a must-win game.

They have started reasonably well, but I'm sure that our lads will be up for the fight.

Then we face Somerset on Thursday and if we win that one too then we will be right up there in the table and looking good to qualify for the quarter-finals.

I have to mention Kevin Pietersen's left-handed shots in the one-day match against New Zealand over the weekend.

I suppose that is the changing face of cricket and suddenly, with £500,000 of Sir Allen Stanford's money up for grabs, it is amazing what some people will do.