Queensland Bulls

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**Queensland Bulls**

First Match:	QLD vs NSW, Exhibition Ground, Brisbane, 1892/93. QLD won by 14 runs.
Captain:	Jimmy Maher
Coach:
Home Ground:	The Gabba Ground
Honours:	Pura Cup: 6 Ford Ranger Cup: 7 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash: 0
Overall record:	Pura Cup: P:113, W:57, D:31, L:25, NR:0 Ford Ranger Cup: P:100, W:59, T:0, D:0, L: 40, NR:1 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash: P:6, W:2, L:3, NR:1
2006/07 Position:	Pura Cup: equal 2nd (18pts) Ford Ranger Cup: Winner KFC Twenty20 Big Bash: 5th (4 pts)
Most recent game:	Pura Cup vs Victorian Bushrangers, The GABBA, Brisbane, March 8-10, 2007. Queensland won by 101 runs.
Current as of:	March 23, 2007 [1]

The Queensland Bulls are the Brisbane-based Queensland representative cricket team in Australia's domestic cricket tournaments:

Pura Cup (formerly Sheffield Shield), 4-day matches with first-class status, since the 1926/27 season
Ford Ranger One Day Cup, 1-day (50 over per side) tournament with List-A status, since its inception in 1969/70
KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, a 20 overs per side tournament, since its inception in 2005/06

1 History
2 Home Ground
3 Famous Players
4 Current Players
5 External links

[edit] History

Despite having produced many outstanding cricketers and attracting others from interstate or overseas (see below), Queensland failed for 68 years to win the four-day national tournament (known at the time as the Sheffield Shield) until Stuart Law led them to success in the 1994-95 season.

Since their breakthrough win, Queensland has enjoyed a golden era winning the competition a further five times (including three consecutive seasons from 1999/2000 to 2001/02) and making the final every year but three. Their most recent title, a victory over the Victorian Bushrangers in 2005-06 saw the Bulls post a first innings score of 6-900 and eventually win by a record margin of an innings and 354 runs. Since a final was introduced to the Sheffield Shield/Pura Cup competitions in the 1982/83 cricket season the Queensland Bulls have contested 16 out of 25 finals.

The Queensland Bulls have also enjoyed reasonable success in the domestic one-day limited overs tournament having won that title seven times since the competition's commencement in the 1969-70 season.

[edit] Home Ground

The side plays (most of) its home games at the "The Gabba", a contraction of the suburb name of Woolloongabba in which it is located. Matches are also played at Allan Border Field in Albion, Brisbane.