The XXXX Queensland Bulls' future will be on display next week with the release today of the City and Country teams for the two-day trial in Biloela.

International players Michael Kasprowicz (City) and Wade Seccombe (Country) will captain the respective teams for the match on September 8 and 9, which represents the start of the Bulls build-up for the coming season.

Injury has forced former Australian quick Scott 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 arthroscopy on his "good" knee which is expected to sideline him for at least four weeks.

"It's bad luck for Scott as he had made a successful return to bowling and was beginning his pre-season build-up with us," coach Bennett King said today. "Hopefully this setback will only be a brief one for him and he can get back into the swing of things for the start of the season."

While Muller was not considered, fellow quick Ashley Noffke has been named to make his return from the ankle injury that cut short his Ashes tour. Queensland's other Ashes tourist, Test opener Matthew Hayden, will have a break following his return home to Brisbane today.

The teams contain several members of the Australia Post Queensland Under-19 team that won the national championships last season as well as Cairns-based Australian Aboriginal Youth pace bowler Barry Weare and Townsville batsman Brett Wightman.

Both teams will boast a leg-spinner in their ranks - Beenleigh teenager Luke Davis, a member of the Australia Post Queensland Under-17 and Under-19 teams last season for City and Ingham-born Greg Chiesa, who recently attended the ACB Spinners Camp at the Cricket Academy, for Country.

The teams arrive in Biloela on Friday, September 7 and play on the Saturday and Sunday.

CITY: Michael Kasprowicz (c), Ryan Broad, Jerry Cassell, Adam Dale, Luke Davis, Chris Hartley, James Hopes, Nick Kruger, Daniel Payne, Matthew Petrie, Craig Philipson, Nathan Rimmington.

COUNTRY: Wade Seccombe (c), Greg Chiesa, Joe Dawes, Nathan Hauritz, Mitchell Johnson, Lance Kahler, Damien Mackenzie, Brendan Nash, Ashley Noffke, Michael Sippel, Barry Weare, Brett Wightman.

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