I missed the game against Durham this week because I’m attending my grandmother’s funeral in Leicester on Thursday.

We did talk about me playing but I didn’t want to let the boys down by having to leave on the last morning. It wasn’t an option to miss it either because at this time it’s all about the family.

Everyone in our dressing room enjoyed watching Rob Key’s double hundred this week. I went for a swim and went home to have breakfast and watched the first couple of hours on the TV.

He had to fight his way through it early on but then got going against the spinners and he looked in as good a form as I have seen him in the five years I have been at Kent.

I was at the ground later and he was on about 180 when I left, so I missed all the fun at the end.

Keysey has gone back to the bat I gave him last year, which was the one he scored hundreds with. He used it on Sunday when he got 87 against Warwickshire and he just looked fantastic on Monday. Steve Harmison may be down on pace but he has still got good control.

I was pleased with my hundred against Essex last week on a good Chelmsford pitch and going in with the team in a good position at 244-4.

I was sorry I didn’t get more than a hundred and disappointed to get out in the second innings as well. My old Leicestershire team-mate Dave Millns gave me out lbw but the ball pitched outside as I explained to him in the bar afterwards when he asked me whether I had looked at it on the video.

We went to Warwickshire on Sunday and I got on the wrong end of a good ball early on to be caught behind by Tim Ambrose.

Rob Ferley did well to get 52 and with all those wickets falling we would have been happy to just get to 120. He and Rob at least got us in a position to set a decent target but our fielding let us down a bit as well.

We are certainly not out of the Clydesdale Bank 40 competition and there’s still a lot of cricket to look forward to. We go to Scotland this weekend and need to find a bit of form.

Then it’s off to Durham for another championship game starting on Monday. Talk to you from there next week.