IT has been many years since a sporting team has been invited to a dinner at the Bank of England, but during our stay in Middlesex we were treated to such an occasion.

The governor, Mervyn King, is a patron of Worcestershire County Cricket Club and he brought the team in for a dinner last week and it gave us such a psychological boost.

To be in a dining room that is usually reserved for royalty and sit on and around £200billion worth of gold was a great honour.

We don’t need much uplifting at the moment but after that we went on to get our third 10-wicket win in four matches.

The way Stephen Moore and Daryl Mitchell are going ab-out these little run-chases is fantastic and they are building a formidable partnership at the top of the innings.

Some of the shots they have been playing are simply majestic — they are going out to bat with real flair and sending a message to teams that says you are down and we are going to keep you down.

The game at Lord’s was set up from the first day when Kabir Ali bowled as well as I can ever remember. Then a patient 93 from Ben Smith really put Middlesex on the back foot.

But, I have to say, Gareth Andrew’s performance was special and he hasn’t got the credit he deserves.

Being an all-rounder, he doesn’t get the new ball like Kabby and he doesn’t always bat, but his innings edged the game our way before removing Owais Shah in the second innings with an absolute jaffa.

It was also good for me to be among the wickets.

With it being so wet this season, obviously not as wet as last year, I haven’t bowled as much as I would have liked.

But with the weather getting better, I feel that I will be bowling a lot more and hopefully there will be a few more five-wicket hauls.

The win at Lord’s sent us to the top of the Division Two table and that is something we must try and maintain.

We have been pretty dominant in the past few weeks but we must try and keep our feet on the ground.

The team has to keep on performing the way it has been.

We don’t need to think about what others are doing, we need to concentrate on ourselves. We have been bowling, batting and fielding really well and its imperative that we maintain our disciplines.

Tomorrow we head to Cheltenham to face Gloucestershire and, judging by their results, they have been struggling recently in the four-day game.

But we can’t take them for granted.

After that we head down to Horsham to face Sussex in the Pro40. It is important that we put things right in this competition after our poor start.

As we showed last season, teams can get on a roll in one-day cricket and start to run away from the pack, so we can’t let that happen.