QLD Country team named for national titles
Queensland Country will stake its Australian Country championshipprospects on a blend of old and new when they travel to Bundaberg nextmonth to defend their national title.
Queensland Cricket
10-Dec-2002
Queensland Country will stake its Australian Country championship
prospects on a blend of old and new when they travel to Bundaberg next
month to defend their national title.
The XXXX Country team, captained by Toowoomba's David Else for the
second year in a row, contains seven members from the team that won the
title last season in Barooga in Victoria.
Else, wicket-keeper Steven Baker, pace bowler Cameron Glass, allrounder
Peter Reimers and batsmen Brian May, Craig Murree and Geoff Paulsen will
form the nucleus of the Queensland team that is chasing back-to-back
titles for the first time.
The team also contains previous Queensland Country selections in the
experienced pairing of Darren Frakes and Paul Toohey and pace bowler
Kris Johnson.
New faces in the squad include Cairns allrounder Thomas Maher, a cousin
of XXXX Bulls captain Jimmy Maher, Hervey Bay batsman Josh Bryen and
Loganholme pace bowler Jason Stein.
Maher, a physiotherapist, played first grade for University of
Queensland two seasons ago before returning to Cairns.
Bryen comes into the Country team after forging an international career
in another sport - softball.
Bryen represented Australia in the softball World Cup in South Africa in
2000 while playing in Victoria and was batter of the tournament in the
2001 Australian softball titles.
Stein, a right-arm pace bowler, is a former Queensland Academy of Sport
scholar who played five seasons of first grade with Norths and
represented Queensland at Under-19 level.
The QAS Regional Program has produced two players for the titles in the
form of Toowoomba duo Reimers and Glass.
The team will be coached by last year's championship coach Richard
McInness and Central Queensland Regional Cricket Manager Vic Williams.
The Australian titles will be held in Bundaberg from January 5 to 16,
the fourth time they have been staged in Queensland.
The championships will include a one-day match between the XXXX
Queensland Bulls and the Australian Country team on Sunday, January 12.
2002-03 Queensland Country Team: David Else (Toowoomba, capt) Steven
Baker (Townsville, wk), Josh Bryen (Hervey Bay), Darren Frakes
(Townsville), Cameron Glass (Toowoomba), Kris Johnson (Bundaberg),
Thomas Maher (Cairns), Brian May (Ipswich), Craig Murree (Bundaberg),
Geoff Paulsen (Beaudesert), Peter Reimers (Toowoomba), Jason Stein
(Beenleigh/Logan), Paul Toohey (Toowoomba). Richard McInnes (Coach), Vic
Williams (Coach), Bob Dieckmann (Manager).