ROSS Whiteley was in unbelievable form with the bat against Yorkshire Vikings and, in time, the England selectors will be looking at him for Twenty20 and one-day internationals.

We know what Ross is capable of and, last season, he made 80 against Derbyshire from just 30-odd deliveries and had other very important knocks in the T20 Blast competition.

We do our range hitting in practice and Ross outstrips everyone else in the squad by between 20 and 40 metres.

The Headingley boundaries were brought in a bit but they were still long and the way in which Ross played was outstanding and I am sure people watching the game at home would have enjoyed it.

He smashed an unbeaten 91 off 35 balls with 11 sixes and had some of those hits been at Worcester, I am sure the ball would have been sailing out of the ground and into New Road.

At half-way it looked like we would do well to reach 150 or 160 which would probably have been a par score at Headingley but to get to 190-6 was a great effort.

Some people have suggested that, perhaps Ross could move up the batting order but everyone has got their role in the side and we feel the number six position is the best place for him to bat.

One of Ross’ roles is to come in at the back end of the innings and play with complete freedom.

Of course he might score a few more hundred runs if he was higher up the batting order but we have a set role for him and I think he does it exceptionally well.

The standard of our fielding and the discipline in our bowling in our T20 Blast campaign is something I have been delighted with.

Yorkshire made a flying start to their innings on Tuesday but the way in which we fought back to bowl them out for 117 was impressive.

Brett D’Oliveira was outstanding with the ball, taking three early wickets and he is coming of age as a spin bowler in the short form of the game. He’s also a competent batsman and an outstanding fielder.

It was nice for me to get the wicket of an England player, too, because Jonathan Bairstow had made a matchwinning innings in Yorkshire’s last T20 outing.

Colin Munro has now left New Roas for international duty with New Zealand and we wish in well in up-coming one-day series.

Last year Colin was outstanding for us and he’s a fantastic guy to have around the dressing room. But we have batting cover with the likes of Tom Fell, who has been involved in the County Championship squad.

Twenty20 cricket is great fun to play in and we are all looking forward to the quarter-finals.