Forget the Twenty20 hype - focus your minds on the County Championship.
That's the message from Vinny Codrington to his Middlesex players following Saturday's dramatic Twenty20 Cup Final win.
The county chief executive believes the Championship is still their 'bread and butter', amidst talk of the multi-million riches opportunities their limited-overs success have thrown up.
Middlesex's Championship form took a severe dip in the run up to the Twenty20 Finals.
Having stormed into the Division Two promotion places, an innings defeat to Warwickshire was followed by a 10-wicket loss to Worcestershire.
Codrington said: "The Twenty20 has been brilliant. But if you talk to cricketers across the country at county level, the Championship is where they want to prove themselves as a serious cricketer.
"We haven't play very well in recent Championship games, and it's probably a good thing that we have a rest this week before returning to action in it next week.
"The biggest concern is that we haven't been batting well in any four-day cricket. Having said that, Worcestershire bowled brilliantly in our last game and anyone would have struggled against them.
"But we've got the top two out of the way, and with no disrespect to the opposition coming up, we should be able to get some points back on the board against Glamorgan, Derbyshire and Leicestershire."
Saturday's success at the Rose Bowl was not only Middlesex's first silverware in 15 years, but also their first in limited-overs cricket in two decades.
Only the most hardened cynic would suggest their sudden interest in Twenty20 came at a time when the shortest form of the game is having money thrown at it all over the world.
But Codrington rebuffs any suggestion that the lure of the dollars and the dirhams had any bearing on Middlesex's aims for the season.
He said: "We entered four competitions at the start of the season with the aim of winning all four. The Twenty20 Cup was no special case.
"I would in fact say it's been harder for us in the limited-overs competitions. The two teams who finished above us in our Friends Provident Trophy group ended up being the finalists, while three of the four teams at Twenty20 Finals Day were from the Southern Division."
