Veteran batsman Peter Bowler , now in his seventh season at The County Ground feels that Somerset have got as strong a team now as they have had during his time at the club.

Peter of course was with Derbyshire when they put paid to Lancashire in the Lord's final to lift the Benson and Hedges Cup in 1993.

"I really feel that we have a good chance of winning the Benson and Hedges Cup, the players are in a confident mood and we must be one of the four best sides in the country. Yorkshire also have a good side , especially Australian Darren Lehmann and of course their England players.But we expect to win on Wednesday, he said."

Peter was missing from the Somerset scene earlier in the season to allow him to take some more law examinations which are 'an ongoing thing.' These are completed now so he can now"concentrate on playing cricket for the rest of the season."

Despite his success in both the County Championship and Norwich Union League matches against Kent, Somerset's young all rouder Pete Trego doesn't think that he will be in the side for the Bensons match against Yorkshire.

"I have done very well over the last five days," he told me on Sunday evening," my batting is coming along well, and I felt very comfortable at the crease.

I don't think that I will be playing against Yorkshire, but would like to wish all the boys who play the best of luck."

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