Kasprowicz picked for Top End Series

Michael Kasprowicz is set to return from a back injury as Queensland play two one-day matches in the Top End Series next month. Kasprowicz, who was dropped after the 2005 Ashes, was forced home from the South Africa Test tour with the problem and missed the two-match Bangladesh series in April.

Queensland will play a one-day game against Pakistan A in Cairns on July 22 and are due to face New Zealand A in a Twenty20 fixture. Australia A and India A are also appearing in the series that will be based in Darwin and Cairns and starts on July 5.

Trevor Barsby, the former Bulls opening batsman, will coach the Queensland side in the absence of Terry Oliver, who is overseas, and the squad includes the young fast bowlers Grant Sullivan and Ben Cutting. Sullivan earned a full contract with Queensland for 2006-07 and Cutting, an Australia Under-19 representative, won a rookie deal.

Queensland squad Ryan Broad, Ben Cutting, Daniel Doran, Chris Hartley, Shane Jurgensen, Michael Kasprowicz, Brendan Nash, Ashley Noffke, Clinton Perren, Nathan Reardon, Nathan Rimmington, Lachlan Stevens, Grant Sullivan.