As anyone attending the first Test at Edgbaston could see from promotions around the ground, the Bears were playing in a T20 derby against Worcestershire last week.
Come Friday night, the local heroes did not disappoint, securing qualification to the knockout stage from the North Group with a crushing 53-run win.
It seems strange to talk of Glenn Maxwell as a veteran but he is 35 later this year. The relative unknown who shot to fame as the million-dollar man in an IPL auction when such deals were newsworthy is now a grand old man on the franchise circuit.
Forty-four off 20 balls and a couple of overs of flat spin shows that he’s still got it. But Dan Mousley, the Englishman making a name for himself this season, out-Maxwelled the man 14 years his seniors, with 51 off 25 balls and four for 41, – a second consecutive four-fer for his off-breaks.