England duo Marcus Trescothick and Andrew Caddick will return for Somerset tomorrow in their C&G semi-final against Warwickshire at Taunton.

The centrally-contracted pair were not allowed by the ECB to take part in the CricInfo Championship game against Leicestershire so will return with all guns blazing against the Midlanders.

Somerset are seeking to reach their second final in the competition in three years and are likely to field the side which disposed of Kent in the quarter-finals.

That means Caddick, Trescothick and Keith Parsons replacing Matthew Bulbeck, Matthew Wood and Mark Lathwell.

Warwickshire will be without their long-term injury victims Ashley Giles, Melvyn Betts and Dominic Ostler.

But Trevor Penney, who now only plays one-day cricket, Mohammad Sheikh and Charlie Dagnall are likely to come into the side in place of Alan Richardson, Ian Bell and David Hemp or Mark Wagh, who all played in the Championship game against Hampshire.

Coach Bob Woolmer said of Penney, who now captains the second XI: "He is almost the first bloke you pencil into your team when it comes to one-day cricket.

"He is the sort of bloke that a coach cries out for, who is able to take a game through to its conclusion like against Yorkshire in the last round."

Woolmer acknowledges that his Warwickshire side will have their work cut out against Somerset with their big-name players.

He said: "Somerset will have Marcus Trescothick and Andrew Caddick back. They are excellent players, but in a way it is not about that. In the end 11 people make the difference."

He believes Warwickshire have a winning blend of youth and experience at their disposal now.

"There is a mixture of people who have tasted success and people coming up who want success. We have got a good combination," said Woolmer.

"It will probably be asking too much to think we could win everything with this side. But the cricketers in this side are such that there is a serious feeling among them that we can win something this year."

Somerset are desperate to return to Lord's to make amends for their last final appearance two years ago when, by their own admission, they failed to perform in losing to West Country rivals Gloucestershire.

Trescothick said: "We certainly didn't play as well as we could in that final and we are hoping we can get through on Saturday and have the opportunity to put that right.

"I don't think we froze. It was just one of those days. Everything went well for Gloucestershire and went wrong for us. You have days like that.

"There is that West Country rivalry, not so much between the teams but between the fans. It is like Bristol City versus Bristol Rovers, a very similar sort of feeling.

"It will be nice to give our supporters something to shout about if we go back to Lord's. If we go back again it won't all be new to us like it was last time and we hope we can put right the devils of 1999.

"First we have to concentrate on the semi-final and Warwickshire seem to have a pretty good method and it works well for them, but they are a few players short at the moment.

"Giles, Ostler and Betts are three major players and, having just played in a big series with England, to lose three major players from your team makes a big difference and creates holes you sometimes can't fill."

And in the meantime Trescothick is happy with both his own and his county's form.

He said: "The boys are in a good little patch of form at the moment. Everyone seems to be contributing.

"As long as they keep playing well, and keep playing well without myself and Andy, then it creates a lot more happiness in the side.

"I've got five hundreds for Somerset this summer and I feel that I'm just coming back into form.

"I've gone through patches of form throughout the whole summer and I'm just coming back into form after two or three weeks of not scoring many runs.

"In the last Test match I played pretty well, and there was nothing I could do about the freak dismissal in the second innings, and I'm hoping I'll be on top form again on Saturday."

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