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Queensland
One-day Name:	Queensland Blues
Coach:	Terry Oliver
Captain:	Jimmy Maher
Founded:	1882
Home Ground:	Brisbane Cricket Ground
Capacity:	42,000
First-class debut:	New South Wales
	- 1882
	- Brisbane Cricket Ground
Pura Cup Wins:	6
Ford Ranger Cup Wins:	7
Official Website:	Queensland Cricket

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

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.

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.

Queensland versus South Australia in a Sheffield Shield match at the 'Gabba, during the mid-1980s

Queensland Bulls versus Victorian Bushrangers in a limited overs one-day cricket match at the 'Gabba during the mid-1980s

For a fuller list of players, see Queensland Cricketers

• Andy Bichel
• Allan Border
• Ian Botham
• Peter Burge
• Greg Chappell
• Wally Grout
• Wes Hall
• Matthew Hayden
• Ian Healy
• Michael Kasprowicz
• Stuart Law
• Ray Lindwall
• Craig McDermott
• Ken Mackay
• Carl Rackemann
• Viv Richards
• Wade Seccombe
• Andrew Symonds
• Don Tallon
• Jeff Thomson
• Kepler Wessels

• Andy Bichel
• Matthew Hayden
• Mitchell Johnson
• Michael Kasprowicz
• Martin Love
• Jimmy Maher
• Andrew Symonds
• Shane Watson
• James Hopes
• Shane Jurgensen
• Ashley Noffke
• Clinton Perren
• Chris Hartley
• Daniel Doran
• Ryan Broad
• Nick Kruger
• Grant Sullivan
• Nathan Rimmington
• Chris Simpson
• Craig Philipson

Rookie Players - Ben Cutting, Ryan Le Loux, Nathan Reardon, Worrin Williams

• The Homepage of Queensland Cricket
• The Homepage of the Brisbane Cricket Ground
• Australian Cricket Discussion Forum