five-wicket defeat to Warwickshire<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\nBut Northants still comfortably topped the group to secure a home tie in the last eight against Gloucestershire on Wednesday after picking up more wins (9) and more points (36) than any other side in the competition.<\/p>\n
“It’s been excellent, we’ve won nine games, lost two of the last three and that can happen,” Lehmann told BBC Radio Northampton.<\/p>\n
“It’s chopping and changing sides to make sure everyone’s getting a run out just in case of an injury. We all got through pretty well.<\/p>\n
“We normally play a pretty settled side all the time. We got an advantage to do that in the last few games because we played so well. The results didn’t go our way.<\/p>\n
“There’s no problem. It’s not going to change how we want to play come Wednesday.”<\/p>\n
Northants will be aiming to reach a second successive T20 finals day when they host Gloucestershire, who finished third in their group and eight points behind.<\/p>\n
Despite facing the bottom seed, Lehmann says the group stage results count for nothing now.<\/p>\n
“Come Wednesday, results don’t matter. It doesn’t matter where you finish on the table,” the former Australian international added.<\/p>\n
“It’s how you play on Wednesday in front of a big crowd. We’ve just got to win that game and then you work on the next game. <\/p>\n
“It’s pretty much how we’ve planned the whole Blast campaign to be perfectly honest.”<\/p>\n
The Steelbacks have won the T20 Blast title twice – in 2013 and 2016 – but have not reached a final since their last success 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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