Marcus Trescothick admits he cannot wait to get his full Somerset squad together after a 'disjointed' winter.

The former England star is itching to make his mark in his first year as full-time captain of the club.

Somerset usually begin winter training in November, but that was delayed a month because of the inaugural Champions League in India in October, immediately after the end of the county season.

Trescothick has since been in the minority as most of his squad have been playing or practising abroad this winter.

For much of 2010, Trescothick has been joined by just five team-mates in the indoor nets at Taunton.

Batsmen Arul Suppiah and James Hildreth, new signing Nick Compton, leg-spinner Michael Munday and paceman Mark Turner, who has been recovering from a stress fracture to the back, have been the skipper's regular companions.

"I am finding it hard," said Trescothick. "For the first two weeks of January we had five guys here.

"It has been so disjointed. There is no one around to discuss what we want to do or plan.

"I want to get everyone back together but we can't do that until the middle of March and I just want to get it going. It will be exciting."

The 34-year-old has had plenty of time to work on his fitness and is confident that his target of playing until he is 40 is realistic.

He said: "I am putting the effort in and I am getting the rewards. I am 34 and I want to play as long as I can.

"My first target is to play until I am 40. If I am strong and am fit enough, who knows what I can do?"

Trescothick is contracted to Somerset until he is 37 with the option of an extra year written into a deal he signed just before Christmas.

"You have to keep assessing it," he said. "If at 38 I am not getting the results and I am not fit enough then it is up to the club, but it will also be my own personal pride to maintain those standards."

Trescothick will pick the Somerset team in conjunction with coach Andy Hurry. Director of cricket Brian Rose has, and always has had, the final veto. But in reality captain and coach will choose the eleven.

Trescothick added: "It will be pretty much me and Andy with some input from Brian.

"At the end of the day Brian has the final say but I don't think he is going to step in too much.

"I think he has done it once years and years ago when it was to bring in myself and that was when I was 18. I was sat in my flat at the ground eating my cereal and I got a knock on the door. He called me in to replace Andy Hayhurst and I got a hundred."

Meanwhile, England new boy Craig Kieswetter wants to work with Matt Prior rather than against him in a bid to make the team's wicketkeeping options the envy of world cricket.

Like Prior, Kieswetter is a South Africa-born gloveman with stacks of confidence and both men have forged reputations as aggressive stroke-makers at the crease.

The Somerset man, who was promoted to the one-day squad for Bangladesh after some eye-catching displays with the England Lions, only became eligible last week.

"I think Matt Prior is doing a great job at the moment, he's really taking England keeping up a level," said Kieswetter.

"Matt's been working really hard with (former Test wicketkeeper) Bruce French and I've been lucky enough to work with him as well."

Kieswetter is expected to play, but not keep wicket, against a Bangladesh Cricket Board XI in a 50-over warm-up in Dhaka today.