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There is a financial theme running through my ramblings this week.

Should the size of prize money, including the Champions League, mean we spectators should all take T20 more seriously?

So seriously that we take a view that was unacceptable and nothing more than a farce.

I for one, and the vast majority of Twitter followers, thought it was a great day.

Congratulations to Sally Brooks of the ECB and her team who appeared to do a very good job. 

A running order was turned on its head and they got through, providing one of the best days of drama and sporting theatre you can find.

General sports programmes normally packed to the brim with football on Saturday felt compelled to cross over to Edgbaston.

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is a brute. On the field that is, I'm sure the Trinidadian is a very pleasant sort of chap off it.

are the latest team to have found the West Indian dishing it out while playing . It was for a second time in just under 12 months.

In this year's he and Jos Buttler set about the Trent Bridge bowling attack with no mercy and everyone was taking for cover including us in the commentary box at the Radcliffe Road end.

More than 60 runs were needed off the last five overs and afterwards the defeated Outlaws were in tatters. Credit to them for still doing their PR bit in signing autographs for the youngsters but doing the interviews following the game was as low sounding as I have ever heard a player after a loss.

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