Botha, Altree, Giles, Ray and Roy

Ant Botha is struggling with his elbow injury and, although he is travelling to Taunton, is highly unlikely to play there.

So the Bears will go in without a specialist spinner which is possibly not as big a blow as it might be as, with cloud forecast to be around all week, conditions could be seam and swing-friendly.

Last time Warwickshire won a championship game at Taunton, in 1996, Darren Altree made his first-class debut, Andrew Caddick took ten wickets in the match, the ball swung around like billio on the Thursday and Ashley Giles spun his team to a 99-run victory on the final afternoon.

And the umpires officiated under the christian names 'Ray' and 'Roy'.