England Test Squad profiles

MARCUS TRESCOTHICK - Somerset

County debut 1993, County cap 1999. Test and ODI debut 2000.

County vice-captain

Tours: England to Kenya (ICC Trophy), Pakistan and Sri Lanka (2000-01); England to Zimbabwe ODI (2001); England A to Bangladesh and New Zealand (1999-2000), England U19 to Sri Lanka (1993-94), West Indies (1994-95) (Captain).

Scored more than 1,000 runs for England U19 and took a hat-trick against Young Australia in 1995.

Scored 322 in the second innings of a 2nd XI game against Warwickshire in 1997 - Somerset were chasing a target of 612 and he was the last man out with the score on 605.

Father played for Somerset 2nd XI. Made his Somerset debut at the age of 17 in 1993.

Made 66 on his Test debut against West Indies at Old Trafford in 2000 and also made a half century (79) on his ODI debut against Zimbabwe at the Foster's Oval earlier in the same summer.

Scored his maiden Test century (122) against Sri Lanka in Galle last winter and followed up by making his first Test hundred (117) on home soil against Pakistan at Old Trafford. Notched a first ODI hundred (137) off just 142 balls at Lord's in the NatWest Series against Pakistan in June.

Selected for England 'A' tour to Bangladesh and New Zealand in 1999 after scoring 167 from 187 balls out of a Somerset total of 280 against Glamorgan at Taunton in front of the watching England Coach, Duncan Fletcher. The innings included a six off Steve Watkin which landed in the grounds of St James' Church at Taunton - a feat last achieved more than 100 years before.

Spent the 1997 and 1998 off-season playing for Melville in Western Australia.

Has sought to perfect his technique against quick bowling by practising with a half-width bat against tennis balls fired at 90 mph from a bowling machine.

Nicknamed 'Banger' because of his liking for sausages.

Occasional medium pace bowler, he took his first Test wicket in the 3rd Test v Pakistan at Karachi in 2000.

English Test Squad
Nasser Hussain | U Afzaal | M Ball | M Butcher | R Dawson | J Foster | A Giles | W Hegg | M Hoggard | R Johnson | J Ormond | M Ramprakash | G Thorpe | M Trescothick | M Vaughan | C White