Difficult one really. Here's my Made in Queensland all-time XI:
1-M.Hayden
2-B.Brown*
3-P.Burge
4-T.Vievers
5-S.Watson
6-K.Mackay
7-I.Healy+
8-M.Johnson
9-R.Archer
10-B.Ironmonger
11-C.McDermott
Bit light on the batting - next three up were Martin Love, Ken Archer and Greg Ritchie. Picking Brown is a bit cheeky - but he was born in Queensland before moving to NSW in his early teens and always considered himself a Queenslander (he returned there to finish his FC career). If ineligible, you'd have to sub in Ken Archer.
Decent pace bowling stocks with Kasper, Bichel, Rackemann, Dale and Dymock missing the cut. I feel like if he'd ever been given a crack in a baggy green, Eddie Gilbert would have been a lay down misere for the side.
The 'spinner' is nominally Ironmonger - would be my pick of one of the two best players in the side alongside Brown - but so many sources vary as to whether he was a left arm orthodox tweaker or a slow-medium swing bowler. He's backed up by Vievers, who was a batting all-rounder. In any case the options after him are Hauritz, Hohns and Murray Bennett. Hardly inspiring.
Keeping was tough - three Australian greats available in Healy, Grout and Tallon. Healy just cinched it from Grout.
