The big talking point of the weekend was the result that never was, with Bailey’s Bay and Cleveland County agreeing that a coin flip was not the way to decide the Knockout Cup final. Speaking as a Bay player, we were in a strong position before the rain stopped play for the day at Lord’s, but if it were the other way around and Cleveland had posted a good total, to then say that they had to flip a coin and lose, you almost feel a little bit hard done by. Both teams coming together and making the decision is probably the best thing that could have happened; it wasn’t just a one-sided thing.

I get it that the Bermuda Cricket Board may not see it that way, and can decide that no one gets the cup or all of the prize money, but I just think, especially the way the game was going, Bay had a nice total on the board and it was looking pretty promising. Obviously, you never know what can happen in cricket because Cleveland have got some good players. It’s cricket and that total is always in reaching distance; it was a decent wicket down St David’s as well. But in my opinion, it would have just been not bad for the game, but sad for it to end in a coin toss.

It was the end of a wet weekend where regulations are called into question. In the Western Counties, Willow Cuts won fair and square; the rules were in place before we went out to field, so we knew what was going on. But I just feel like whatever happened in the game before that point — Warwick scoring 281 off 50 overs — was made kind of irrelevant. I don’t think that’s right; not only because I was playing for Warwick, but regardless of whoever was playing.

With rain-affected matches, we have been using average run-rate to determine adjusted totals, but that has always favoured the side batting second, which is why Duckworth/Lewis came into being in the first place — and that was more than 25 years ago! Our total on run-rate on Saturday was reduced, giving Cuts a target of 152 to win in 27 overs. My understanding is they would have had to score 191 had Duckworth/Lewis been used. That’s a massive difference and more reflective of how the first half of the match transpired. We used Duckworth/Lewis in Bermuda before for big games and it’s something could be reviewed in the future.

As far as my Sussex future is concerned, we should know more in the next week or so. But it was sad to see white-ball captain Ravi Bopara leave the club last week. Meantime, I’m focusing on doing as well as I can for Bailey’s Bay for the rest of the season. We have county cup coming up, which will be huge when you consider the crowds we had for the KO Cup final, and Cup Match for St George’s if selected. It should be a pretty exciting few weeks.

Also exciting was seeing England breathe life into the Ashes series with victory over Australia in the third Test at Headingley. Mark Wood proved the difference on his recall with his 96mph pace and I don’t see too many changes happening for the fourth Test at Old Trafford next week.

It’s a difficult one, obviously, because Old Trafford can have a lot of pace and bounce, but then it has a tendency to be very dry and it could spin a lot. I think it would depend on what they get conditions-wise, for England definitely. You’ll see Moeen Ali and Joe Root’s bowling well, so you have your two spinners there. Mark Wood is back and bowling quick and taking wickets, so that’s a big bonus. Both teams have all bases covered. With this game being at Old Trafford, Nathan Lyon again will be a big miss. Todd Murphy will have a big role to play, and as you saw in Headingley, they took him down or they tried to take him down.

It’s going to be an interesting Test and it will be fiery again — the Old Trafford crowd is not going to hold back. We’ll see some exciting cricket, which you’ve come to expect that from England, but Australia have matched them in terms of playing with that same kind of freedom. I think they’ve decided to play their own brand of cricket to try and compete. It would be nice to see it at 2-2 going into the last Test for it to be the decider.

Cameron Green should be fit for Old Trafford but I don’t see them changing their team. It’s been done before, but I think it’s hard to leave out a guy [Mitchell Marsh] who’s got a century and took a couple of wickets as well. I’m not saying that Cameron Green isn’t good enough but because of the make-up of the team already with the three big quicks and Mitch Marsh as your fourth seamer. If you do get him in, it would mean you have to either drop your frontline spinner or drop a batsman, and I can't see that happening.

There have been a few calls to drop opener David Warner, who has been struggling on this tour, but he is proven. If you drop him as the opener, then who do you stick on top? Travis Head has opened before for Australia, but if you go with that approach after he has been scoring runs at No 5 and No 6 for the last 18 months, and is about to go to No 1 in the Test rankings, it would be a bit hard on him.

From an England standpoint, they may just go with the same team. There is a case for Jimmy Anderson coming back on his home ground in place of maybe Ollie Robinson, but you couldn’t really argue against Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes going with the same XI they just won with.

• Delray Rawlins was talking to Dexter Smith