da lvbet： The XXXX Queensland Bulls will follow a proven formula with the releaseof their contracted player list for the 2002-2003 season.
Queensland Cricket04-Jun-2002The XXXX Queensland Bulls will follow a proven formula with the releaseof their contracted player list for the 2002-2003 season.Queensland Cricket Chief Executive Graham Dixon today announced theBulls’ squad for the coming season that contains six ACB contractedplayers, 17 State contracted players and three Rookie contractedplayers.Dixon said Queensland did not intend to add to the list prior to thestart of the season after reaching agreements with all of the nominatedplayers.”As we saw last season, the option is there to add players during thesummer depending on representative selections and injuries,’ he said.”The selectors are confident the players they have nominated willprovide the Bulls with the depth to enjoy another successful season.’The squad contains the likes of opening batsman Daniel Payne, left-armpace bowler Scott Brant and right-arm pace bowler Damien MacKenzie, eachof whom made their first class debuts last season from outside thesquad. Payne and Brant were both members of the Bulls team that won theState’s third consecutive Pura Cup title.The only player on the State contracted list yet to play first classcricket is former Australian Under-19 wicket-keeper Chris Hartley who isin his second year in the Bulls squad.Former Australian pace bowler Scott Muller and off-spinner Scott O’Learywere not awarded contracts.Muller, who played two Tests in 1999-2000, has experienced a wretchedrun with injury over the past two seasons while O’Leary, who playedseven matches in 2000-2001, saw Australian one-day spinner NathanHauritz and left-armer spinner Matthew Anderson preferred ahead of himlast season.Australian Under-19 batsman Craig Philipson enters his second season ona rookie contract with the other rookie contracts awarded to Wynnum-Manlyopener Chris Simpson, a Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy scholar thisyear, and Wests pace bowler Steve Magoffin.The trio will have an early indication of their future prospects whenthey play for Queensland in this weekend’s series of practice matchesagainst Australia and Pakistan, which are training in Brisbane this weekas part of their build-up to the three-match TOWER Super Challenge IIseries in Melbourne and at the Gabba. Queensland are scheduled to playPakistan on Saturday and Australia on Sunday at Allan Border Field in40-over practice games.All States have until Friday to register their initial playing list forthe 2002-2003 season with the ACB.States must register between 14 and 20 State Player contracts andbetween two and five Rookie contracts. States have the option to addanother two Player contracts and two Rookie contracts to their list bySeptember 28.The XXXX Queensland Bulls 2002-2003 squad is:ACB contracted players: Matthew Hayden, Andy Bichel, Martin Love, JimmyMaher, Nathan Hauritz, Andrew Symonds.State contracted players: Stuart Law, Wade Seccombe, Michael Kasprowicz,Ashley Noffke, Matthew Anderson, Lee Carseldine, Jerry Cassell, AdamDale, Joe Dawes, Chris Hartley, James Hopes, Mitchell Johnson, BrendanNash, Clinton Perren, Damien MacKenzie, Daniel Payne, Scott Brant.Rookie contracted players: Craig Philipson, Chris Simpson, SteveMagoffin.