GILES: BRING ON NEXT YEAR'S TWENTY20.

ASHLEY Giles admits that Warwickshire's failure to reach the Twenty20 Finals Day at Edgbaston was a "big disappointment" - but he has rubbished talk of a T20 quarter-finals jinx.

The Bears will again be spectators when their home ground is packed for Finals Day next Saturday. Their defeat to Sussex last week meant that, for the third time, Edgbaston will host the big day without participation from the players that ply their trade regularly there.

The loss to Sussex also extended Warwickshire's unhappy sequence in T20 quarter-finals. They have now reached that stage five times - and lost every time.

But Giles, still relatively new to the job of director of cricket, has no time for talk of a jinx, instead drawing encour-agemenfrom the strong displays from his team in the group stage of the tournament.

"It is only my second year in charge so I don't see it as a jinx," Giles said. "It was great to get to the quarter-finals and we played some very good cricket to get there.

"Of course then not to make it beyond that was a big disappointment. When you do so much hard work and claw your way through the group stage and then it comes down to a crucial 20 minutes of a game and you are out, it's hard to take. But that's Twenty20 cricket.

"A lot of positives came out of the tournament for us. Trotty has gone to a new level with his one-day batting, Boyd Rankin gave us good variation and Rikki Clarke adds massively to us all-round. Bring on next year."