MARTIN JOHNSON

You need to be inventive to stay ahead of the game at T20, which is why, of the four teams contesting Finals Day, I was able to write Somerset off before a ball had been slogged. The Scrumpymen might have pulled it off, and you could picture the Cidernauts running round Edgbaston with the trophy, but let’s face it. If you go into a tournament like this one without a nickname, you’ve absolutely no chance.
No surprise to me then that the final ended up as a shoot-out between the two most creative monikers, with the Sharks of Sussex just losing out to the Rapid...