Jamie Overton showed what massive potential he has with his bowling performance in our defeat to Middlesex at Taunton last week.
The Sky Sports television guys were talking a lot about Jamie when they came down to cover our previous home County Championship game, against Warwickshire, and there's no doubt he is starting to build a big reputation for himself on the circuit.
Jamie has been fantastic for us this season and the six wickets he took in Middlesex's first innings was the highlight of a largely disappointing overall performance.
He is only just 19 and it's been great for us to have a bowler of that calibre and that pace come into the first team.
He's a good guy who works hard at his game and he's enjoying what he's doing in terms of getting overs under his belt and getting the experience of playing regular county cricket.
Jamie's biggest advantage is that he has height and pace. There are not that many bowlers around who are quick and tall – and by quick I mean someone who can hit 90mph with their bowling.
Jamie is already on England's radar in that he is part of the ECB's Fast-Bowling Programme and he's certainly someone who will be pressing for England Lions selection, at least, come next winter.
His twin brother Craig, of course, is also a great prospect. He is more of an all-rounder, who bowls first change and bats at six or seven, and the pair of them will have a major part to play at Somerset in the years to come.
This week's Championship match at Horsham is Alviro Petersen's last one for us before he departs for a month to play for South Africa in the Champions Trophy. Alviro's fitted in nicely to our side and done a great job, scoring a couple of big hundreds.
I'm delighted we've managed to bring in another South African, Dean Elgar, to cover for Alviro while he's away.
Our coach, Dave Nosworthy, has seen a lot of him in South Africa and recommends him highly, as does Alviro.
He's got a very good record in first-class and one-day cricket and although he is primarily a batsman, he also offers a left-arm spin option.
He's come into international cricket recently and got a Test hundred to his name.
In contrast to our County Championship form, I've been delighted with the way we've gone about our 40-over cricket this season. Three wins from three games has given us a great start to the group.
I thought our display against Yorkshire at Headingley was a very good one and we matched it last Sunday against Middlesex at Taunton.
We fielded well and we bowled well, even though we rested Thommo (Alfonso Thomas), and our batting was clinical. Pete Trego has been in outstanding form in 40-over cricket and got our innings off to another great start.
He went on to score 81 and received good support from Arul Suppiah, who played really well for his 60 and took some of the pressure off Pete.
We've played on three good pitches so far, which always helps, and I'm particularly pleased with the way we've dominated the powerplays in each of the three games.
Finally, a few words on England's first Test victory against New Zealand at Lord's. I expected England to dominate more than they did, but a win is a win and the bowling, in particular, was outstanding.
I said last week that I would like to have seen Tim Bresnan in the team as he is a high-class cricketer. But England have a good formula going and I don't expect them to change the pace bowling line-up for this week's second Test at Headingley.
Stuart Broad needed a big haul of wickets to get himself back in form and he certainly got that with the seven he took in the second innings.
Steven Finn took four wickets in the first innings, so I would expect those two and James Anderson to again be the three frontline pace bowlers at Headingley.
As for my Somerset team-mate Nick Compton, he will know the pressure is on him to get a big score after missing out at Lord's, as did several others, of course.
There is always pressure playing in Test cricket, because there is always someone pushing you for your place.
Nick will know he's got to match up to the standard and the occasion if he is to keep his place. He showed what quality he possesses with a couple of hundreds he scored in New Zealand and I'm sure that if he can get one big score behind him, he'll go on to make it three or four scores. That's what Alastair Cook is so good at. Whenever he's a bit short on runs, he bounces back with a series of big scores.
INTERVIEW: MARK EASTERBROOK
