In the run up to the start of the new LV= County Championship season, which begins on Sunday 12 April, trentbridge.co.uk will focus on each of Nottinghamshire's First Division rivals.
Our first focus is on Somerset, a county that finished bottom of the second tier as recently as 2006, but were promoted the following season and have since been twice runners-up, as well as finishing in the top four on a further three occasions.
Now coached by former Glamorgan and England batsman Matthew Maynard (pictured), Somerset are aiming for the first county championship title in the club's history - an achievement to which they came closest by in 2010, when Nottinghamshire pipped them on games won having tied on 214 points at the top of the table.
They are led by 39-year-old Marcus Trescothick in LV= County Championship cricket. He has over 22000 first-class runs to his name and proved last season - with 1156 runs at an average of 42.81 with four hundreds - that a century-less 2013 was little more than a blip.
He has notched in excess of a thousand first-class runs in six of the last eight seasons and will once again be the prize dismissal for Nottinghamshire's bowling attack when the two sides meet a Trent Bridge in May.
Nick Compton will no longer be vying with Trescothick for that mantle having re-joined Middlesex. However, James Hildreth - who has 30 first-class centuries and a highest score of 303 not out - is also a man to dismiss early.
Australian born Holland international Tom Cooper will bat in the upper echelons of the order alongside Trescothick; as will vastly experienced former Durham and Somerset batsman Johannes Myburgh who scored 115 not out in the recent fixture against Durham MCCU.
James Allenby, who has signed from Glamorgan to test himself in first division cricket, should - much like Peter Trego, who is starting his 16th season with the first team - bring middle-order runs as well as featuring as a third or fourth seamer.
With the ball, the west-countrymen have relinquished the seam-bowling services of Steve Kirby to retirement, but have engaged Pakistan left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman as overseas player for the season.
The loss of Kirby will likely mean for a dip in the level of aggression encountered by opposition batsmen. There is also the small matter of replacing Kirby's 572 career first-class wickets.
Tim Groenewald, a mid-season signing from Derbyshire last term, will go about his business in a far more low key fashion, but has a recent record to suggest that he'll be no less effective.
Lewis Gregory is a likely starter following his career-best wicket haul of 45 at 25.77 in 2015, while Craig Overton is another young pace bowler to watch having already featured nine times for the England Lions at the age of 20.
His twin brother James could also have a role to play in that department, while veteran Alfonso Thomas is expected to recover from a broken ankle in time for the second championship match of the season against Middlesex.
In Rehman as the overseas player, Somerset have recruited a vastly experienced and wily international campaigner with 99 wickets in 22 Tests to his name.
The 36-year-old garnered 27 victims in four matches for Somerset in 2010, including a career-best innings haul of 9-65 against Worcestershire.
Jack Leach or Ireland left-arm spinner George Dockrell could be employed alongside Rehman to form a left-arm spinning duo when conditions are suitable.
Alex Barrow is likely to start as wicketkeeper in the long-term injury absence of Crag Kieswetter.
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