Shane Warne is understandably delighted with Hampshire's C & G Trophy semi-final home draw against Yorkshire.

Rest assured that Yorkshire will not be underestimated when they play at the Rose Bowl on August 20.

With very capable players like Phil Jaques and Ian Harvey they will provide difficult opposition, but after playing all our C & G games for the last two seasons away from home, Warney and I were both happy to see Hampshire get a Rose Bowl tie for the first time since May 2003.

We both watched the record-breaking win against Surrey on Friday during the tour match against Leicestershire at Grace Road.

Warney was rested so he was glued to the screen, and, after we bowled Leicestershire out on the first day, Michael Clarke and I kept half an eye on events at The Oval while we waited to bat.

Some of our Aussie teammates tried to wind us up by telling us that Hampshire had no chance after seeing that Surrey had set 359 to win, but I was only half joking when I said we would win with two overs to spare!

I'd seen how quick the outfield was only a few days earlier when we beat England there in the last Natwest Challenge game.

When the Oval is in that condition you only have to beat the outfielders by five metres to get a boundary so I was still confident, especially as we showed that we were capable of a big score when we made a club record 353 in the National League against Middlesex at Lord's this season.

I didn't see much of Surrey's innings but started watching just before Nic Pothas was out.

He got us off to a good start but it was during Shane Watson's partnership with John Crawley that I really believed we could win.

Watto played beautifully and Ricky Ponting and a few others joined us in front of the screen at Leicester during his magnificent 132.

It was a great knock and you could see how disappointed he was to get out when he did.

But the beauty of Hampshire's side is that we bat right down the order, and Shaun Udal and Chris Tremlett are always capable of good scores at nine and ten.

Needing to score at more than seven an over sounds a lot but when you have someone like Watto at the top of his game, and the likes of Dimitri Mascarenhas, Craig McMillan and Sean Ervine supporting him, five singles and a boundary an over come relatively easily.

The only time I've played in a successful run chase comparable with that was for New South Wales a few years ago when we made 300 off 47 overs to win a Sheffield Shield game.

After a game like that it can be hard to go again two days later because one day cricket is so intense.

But we got ourselves into a good position before the defeat at Notts.

In a close game like that you'd hope the umpires would be as lenient as possible instead of imposing the six-run penalty for a slow over rate.