da betsul： BRISBANE – A knee injury has sidelined former Australian fast bowler ScottMuller for a month and he will miss Queensland’s opening trial game of thecoming cricket season
da fazobetai： AAP30-Aug-2001BRISBANE – A knee injury has sidelined former Australian fast bowler ScottMuller for a month and he will miss Queensland’s opening trial game of thecoming cricket season.The Bulls will be back in action early next month in a City versus Countrytwo-day trial in Biloela, 350km north-west of Brisbane.International players Michael Kasprowicz (City) and Wade Seccombe (Country)will captain the respective teams for the match on September 8-9.But injury has forced Muller to postpone his planned comeback in the match,after undergoing minor surgery this week.Muller, who had knee surgery last season, was forced to have an arthroscopyon his “good” knee which was expected to sideline him for at least fourweeks.”It’s bad luck for Scott as he had made a successful return to bowling andwas beginning his pre-season build-up with us,” Bulls coach Bennett Kingsaid today.”Hopefully this setback will only be a brief one for him and he can get backinto the swing of things for the start of the season.”While Muller was not considered, fellow quick Ashley Noffke has been namedto make his return from the ankle injury that cut short his Ashes tour afterhe was called into the Australian squad to replace Nathan Bracken.Queensland’s other Ashes tourist, Test opener Matthew Hayden, will have abreak following his return home to Brisbane today.Bulls skipper Stuart Law, Martin Love, Jimmy Maher, Andy Bichel and AndrewSymonds are still in England playing county cricket and return home inmid-September.The trial teams contain several members of the Queensland Under-19 team thatwon the national championships last season as well as Cairns-basedAustralian Aboriginal Youth pace bowler Barry Weare and Townsville batsmanBrett Wightman.Both teams will boast a leg-spinner in their ranks – Beenleigh teenager LukeDavis, a member of the Queensland Under-17 and Under-19 teams last seasonfor City and Ingham-born Greg Chiesa, who recently attended the ACB SpinnersCamp at the Cricket Academy, for Country.CITY: Michael Kasprowicz (c), Ryan Broad, Jerry Cassell, Adam Dale, LukeDavis, Chris Hartley, James Hopes, Nick Kruger, Daniel Payne, MatthewPetrie, Craig Philipson, Nathan Rimmington.COUNTRY: Wade Seccombe (c), Greg Chiesa, Joe Dawes, Nathan Hauritz, MitchellJohnson, Lance Kahler, Damien Mackenzie, Brendan Nash, Ashley Noffke,Michael Sippel, Barry Weare, Brett Wightman.
