da premier bet： Queensland’s latest Test player Martin Love will captain the XXXXQueensland Bulls in Sunday’s one-day match against Australian Country inBundaberg.
Queensland Cricket10-Jan-2003Queensland’s latest Test player Martin Love will captain the XXXXQueensland Bulls in Sunday’s one-day match against Australian Country inBundaberg.Love, who made his Test debut in the Boxing Day Test and played in theFifth Test in Sydney last week, will take over the captaincy reins frompace bowler Michael Kasprowicz.Kasprowicz led the Bulls to ING and Pura Cup victories in Perth thisweek.The Queensland selectors have also included swing bowler Adam Dale inthe Bulls line-up in place of left-armer Scott Brant who sustained aminor calf strain playing for the Queensland Academy of Sport in theirACB Cup outright win over the ACT yesterday.Dale made a successful comeback in the Bulls’ outright win over theWarriors in Perth after a 15-month absence following major shouldersurgery.The Bulls will travel to Bundaberg tomorrow and play the one-day fixtureon Sunday against the Australian Country team that will be namedtonight. The match is part of the Australian Country championships inBundaberg this week and next week.Meanwhile injured pace bowler Ashley Noffke has had a positive report onhis fractured right index finger.Following scans today, Noffke will not require surgery to have asurgical pin inserted, with the Australia ‘A’ quick hoping to be clearedto resume bowling in just over a week.”We’ll see how things go next week at training before we know whetherthe games against the Redbacks are an option for me,” Noffke said.The Bulls play South Australia in an ING Cup day/nighter on Friday andthen in a Pura Cup match starting on Sunday at the Gabba.XXXX Queensland Bulls v Australian Country, Bundaberg, Sunday: MartinLove (c), Daniel Payne, Lee Carseldine, Clinton Perren, Brendan Nash,James Hopes, Nick Kruger, Wade Seccombe, Michael Kasprowicz, NathanHauritz, Damien MacKenzie, Adam Dale (all twelve to play).