The Clydesdale Bank 40 season starts this weekend with back-to-back games against Worcestershire at Canterbury on Sunday and Middlesex at Lord’s the following day.

The challenge for me this season is to earn a regular place in the side for the shorter forms of the game and avoid being pigeon holed as just a four-day player.

Our one-day batting unit has been pretty established for the last three or four years and we have done well and it’s been pretty hard to break into.

Weight of runs in championship cricket will help but it’s up to me to keep learning and increase my one-day skills level, which is what I did in Australia during the winter when I played more one-day and T20 cricket than ever before.

I hit 50s and 60 not outs playing in a T20 grade cricket competition out there and my club Sydney won a competition there as well, with Joe Denly involved in the latter stages.

Sydney grade cricket offers young players like me the opportunity to practice all forms of the game and I recommend it to any young player.

It’s good that county second elevens are playing more T20 cricket giving young players the chance to hone their skills and be ready to perform when the time comes. When I was playing second team cricket, we didn’t do that and I didn’t play it at school either.

Nothing has been said yet about what the make up of the one-day side will be, but hopefully I will be a part of it.

The Open Day on Easter Monday was successful with the playing area packed and everyone enjoyed being there. There was a good feeling about the place.

I had the first look at the new dressing rooms earlier this week and Robbie Joseph is the unlucky person next to me. I am known to be pretty messy, not clearing things up, and the other guys try to avoid me.

I watched Spurs come back from 3-1 down to draw 3-3 with Arsenal last week at home with my dad who is a Gooner. We were shouting at each other throughout the game and I was tweeting with David Brent (Simon Willis ) and Joey Essex (Ashley Shaw) who also support the red half of North London.

I am still not hopeful about Tottenham being in the Champions League again next season but, to me, Harry Redknapp can’t do a thing wrong anyway. Arsene Wenger, though, has to go – he has lost the plot.