I'M SO proud of the lads for how they've recovered from the start to our white-ball season. Our work ethic has been second to none and we've continued to back ourselves all the way.

After the first four games, it seemed as if everybody had written us off and didn't believe in us as a limited-overs team.

It was a case of here we go again on Sky and elsewhere in the press. Then, in that true Yorkshire spirit, we got a couple of wins under our belt to give us that confidence.

Now, here we are in Finals Day. We're two good performances away from a trophy and it's a great opportunity for us.

But we know Durham, our semi-final opponents at Edgbaston next Saturday, are a dangerous team; a really dangerous team.

It's a level playing field. They know us really well and we know them really well. Though knockout cricket, you just need to play well on the day.

On a personal level, it's my first year as captain and I'm elated to help get the lads this far. Hopefully I can keep making some good decisions for the team and keep the ball rolling.

We were slick for the vast majority of Thursday's match at Glamorgan. We felt we were 15 to 20 runs short with the bat, although we still felt that 180 was a very good score.

It was, after all, the highest T20 total at Cardiff this season and runs on the board in knockout games are very tough to overcome. Anything over 160 in that situation is a really big ask.

Everybody contributed to the win, whether it was with bat, ball or in the field. Matthew Waite came in for his first appearance of the season, hit an important 19 with the bat, took one-for with the ball – getting their key man Colin Ingram out – and taking a good catch.

Those little 15s or 20s are almost as important as the big 80s from Dave Willey when you look at the overall picture.

We've got a dangerous bowling attack and it's one I'm hugely confident in. When you've got Adil Rashid in there, who spins it both ways and can blow away the tail like he did to Glamorgan, it means you've got a great balance.

There's Dave Willey and Tim Bresnan up front, then someone who bowls 90mph in Liam Plunkett and the spin twins in Rash and Azeem Rafiq. It's a great position to be in as a captain.

I'm not sure yet whether we'll have our England players back for Finals Day but I hope so, as I'm sure everybody does.

Even if we could get a couple of them back at least it would be very handy, particularly not having an overseas available now that Travis Head has gone.

We move from T20 back to the red-ball stuff today against Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford and hopefully we can take the confidence of this and last week's win over Warwickshire forward.

It's a big three weeks in our season across all formats now and we've placed ourselves in a brilliant position. If we keep working hard and believing, hopefully we can move forward in all three comps.

It's a shame that Travis had to go so early, after being called up by the Aussies, because he made such a big impact for us. But Jake Lehmann comes in for the rest of the Championship season and we're excited by his arrival.

He hasn't played loads of cricket but he's a talented lad and it's been a great start to his first-class career with two or three hundreds already.

There's no doubt that he's got big shoes to fill in terms of his dad Darren, who is a Yorkshire legend on the back of his time with the club.

Hopefully he doesn't feel the pressure too much and can make a couple of vital match-winning contributions for us.

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