Bring it on! The announcement of England's pre-Ashes camp squad and the players to be involved in two warm-up games next week means the big event of the summer is just around the corner.

While the selectors have made it clear there is still time for change, the team chosen to face Warwickshire at Edgbaston in a three-day game starting next Wednesday looks sure to be very close to our first Test line-up.

The other match is an England Lions clash with Australia at New Road and the likes of Ian Bell and Steve Harmison will be doing all they can to force their way into the reckoning for the Ashes opener at Cardiff a week later.

For all that, I don't see much wrong with the side selected to play Warwickshire and would be happy enough to see it employed in the Test Match.

Matt Prior is the right choice as wicketkeeper and I say that even though I backed the choice of James Foster in the Twenty20 World Cup.

The Sussex man is a genuine batsman, capable of getting 150 batting at number six, and England have to score enough runs if they are to put the Aussies under pressure in the series.

I could see Prior getting 450 runs over the course of the five Tests and that could prove priceless. I accept that his wicketkeeping prowess has to be taken into account, but I don't think he has done a bad job in that respect in recent England appearances.

He is an aggressive player capable of changing games quickly. In Somerset's County Championship match at Hove last week he had us on the back-foot for a while until a fantastic one-handed catch by James Hildreth altered the course of the game back in our favour.

With Prior at six, I think the rest of the England batting line-up pretty much picks itself. Captain Andrew Strauss will open with Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara is set to go in at three ahead of Kevin Pietersen and Paul Collingwood. Freddie Flintoff will be after Prior and if the big man can strike some form it looks a decent top seven.

All those players have been selected for the game against Warwickshire. The one change I foresee for Cardiff is Graham Onions replacing Monty Panesar, unless England decide to start the series with two spinners, which is possible as the pitch over in Wales may be expected to turn.

Onions has been the leading wicket-taker in the country this season and started his Test career with a bang against West Indies. He is confident, in-form and the obvious back-up for James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Freddie.

Graeme Swann can expect to be first-choice spinner, although I'm sure the selectors would like to get Adil Rashid into the side at some point.

The young Yorkshire leg-spinner has a big future at international level, but may need one more big performance in county cricket to force his way into the England team.

I'm happy to see Harmison in the Lions side because he has been showing signs of returning to his best form with Durham and I believe we will see him involved in the Ashes battles at some point. Harmy may not possess the express pace he used to have, but he and Freddie have the ability to get extra bounce out of even flat pitches.

If the ball isn't swinging, reversing or seaming, captains need bowlers with an x-factor to get them wickets. Bounce can be that surprise weapon, which means opposing batsmen can never feel settled.

The Australians rate Flintoff extremely highly and will be worried about facing him.

With Harmy, they are more likely to feel a little unsure because they have faced the good and the bad from him over the years.

If he gets it right he could run through them and that means the selectors would do well to continue monitoring him closely. I don't think he will play in the First Test, even if he does well in the game at New Road.

Michael Vaughan's omission from both warm-up matches was no surprise. I don't think it necessarily signals the end for him as an international player, but he certainly has to go and get some big runs in county cricket, which he hasn't been able to do so far this summer.

As things stand, Michael has no claim to an England place, however impressive his previous record against the Aussies might be.

On the county front, things have been going very nicely for Somerset with back-to-back Championship wins and a convincing Twenty20 Cup victory over Worcestershire in front of a big Taunton crowd on Tuesday evening.

We now face massive group matches at home to Northants this evening and away to Gloucestershire tomorrow night.

If we could win them both, the likelihood is that we will have qualified for the quarter-finals by the time we play our final Midlands/Wales/West Group match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston on Sunday.

We want to finish top of the group and get a home quarter-final because in one-day cricket we fancy our chances strongly against anyone at Taunton.