WE REMAIN very confident that we will get things right in Twenty20 cricket at Yorkshire, although it may take a little bit of time.

It’s a new make-up of the side, from some new players to me as a new captain, and you’ve got to give it time.

We are playing some young lads with a mix of senior players, and they just need to be given a chance. Once we find that formula, I’m sure we’ll be a brilliant white and red ball team.

People are quick to jump on the bandwagon and say we’re struggling, but how many counties try when they can to field eleven homegrown lads like we are doing. There’s not many.

We have Kane Williamson coming in this week, but we haven’t got two overseas like a lot of the other counties have for large parts of the competition.

A team like Leicestershire when we played them recently had Mark Cosgrove, Umar Akmal, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, Clint McKay in their side.

We probably need the public and press to back these lads and trust what we are doing.

We are backing our own lads, and that’s something that shouldn’t go unnoticed.

We haven’t got anything to lose to a certain extent. People are expecting us to get beat most games, but I’m going to keep backing the players every single game.

I’m bitterly disappointed that we’ve lost the first three games, but I’ve got to keep leading from the front.

In four-day cricket, we know our formula, what works – when to attack and when to absorb pressure. Probably the T20, we don’t quite know that.

But I’m very confident that at some point in the near future, it will click and we will be a dangerous side.

It was a fantastic feeling to win the Roses Championship clash against Lancashire at Headingley last week.

We were 30-4 in the first innings, with our backs against the wall, but Adil Rashid, Tim Bresnan, Liam Plunkett, Steve Patterson and Jack Brooks all chipped in and got us to a decent score of 301.

From there, the bowlers bowled exceptionally.

We have won two games now, we’re joint top of the table, but we still haven’t played anywhere near our best cricket yet.

That’s an extremely exciting place to be in as a player and fan of Yorkshire cricket.

The thing with us is that we know how to play our four-day cricket. We know our roles and how we want to play. We all have confidence in each other, and we never once doubt ourselves even when we are four down cheaply.

I’m always thinking ‘someone will stand up’.

Over the last three years since I’ve been involved, someone’s always stood up. It was Rash and Brez this week in the first innings and Liam in the second innings.

That second innings was tough, with Lancashire fighting back, but we know that if we put enough pressure on teams they will eventually crack.

The only time it’s previously not happened was when Chris Rogers scored that double hundred for Middlesex at Lord’s towards the start of the 2014 season. More often than not, though, we crack teams.

Kane, who will play in both limited overs competitions before then, will be available for our next Championship match against Durham at the Riverside towards the end of the month. And he’s a massive addition.

The top six haven’t fired as we’d like yet, and that’s something we’ve highlighted that we need to be better at.

But when you add someone like him into the mix, it’s only going to improve you dramatically as a team.

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