Somerset legend Andrew Caddick believes the club is well-placed to build on success under the leadership of Brian Rose and Justin Langer.

In his 20 years at Taunton, Caddick has seen plenty of highs and lows - with the peaks usually followed soon after by the troughs.

Under the captaincy of Australian Jamie Cox, the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy final win of 2001 was followed not long after by relegation from County Championship Division One in 2002.

Then the Twenty20 Cup success of 2005 was followed by finishing bottom of the whole Championship in 2006.

However, Somerset CCC go into Twenty20 finals day a week on Saturday as a well-established Division One club.

Caddick said: "With Jamie the club was in desperate need of an outside captain who knew nothing of the players and picked them on performances.

"Under Jamie we got to Lord's three times and won once and that was a great achievement when we won the C&G. But when we did we didn't move on because we didn't develop and didn't push on and bring new players in.

"We seem to have got past that and under the regime of Justin Langer and Brian Rose those days have gone.

"Justin came in with a club on the verge of going nowhere and he has developed the club with some respected management that has pushed the players to the point that they can actually achieve.

"We have got a great facility (The Andy Caddick Pavilion) now and it is a shame I am only in it for three months."

Stable management was not something Caddick always enjoyed in his international career.

"You can only control the controllables and you can't control captains or selectors. I started (in 1993) with Graham Thorpe and he achieved 100 Tests and I would have loved to have achieved that milestone," said the 62-times capped bowler.

"I don't think the captains or the selectors backed me until the Nasser Hussain-Duncan Fletcher era.

"Players get in the side and then they get changed but if you get to that level you should be just told to bowl. A technique is a technique. That is one of the problems that affected me.

"For the last ten years I have always said I wanted to prove the England selectors wrong and I think I have done that on occasion."

Caddick's final Test appearance was in the Sydney Test of 2003 when his ten wickets bowled England to a rare victory. He was almost recalled at the end of the 2007 series against India. He was on standby but the bowler who was an injury doubt reported fit.

"I would have liked to have proved them wrong in 2007 by taking that trip down to the Oval for the final Test because that would have been the icing on the cake," he said.

"And I am sure I wouldn't have been hanging up my boots up for England after that one."

There was no play on the first day of Somerset CCC's Championship game against Warwickshire at Edgbaston yesterday due to heavy overnight rain and poor drying conditions in Birmingham.

Warwickshire are to give a debut to teenage batsman Nathan Newport, son of former Worcestershire seamer Phil, in place of England call-up Jonathan Trott.