Moises in, Warner back

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moisesMy Portuguese cousin Moises Henriques has been called up for the single Twenty20 match against New Zealand! He’ll make his debut for Australia in Sunday’s match at the SCG.

Curiously the selectors have waited for his form to wane before selecting him, in this years (victorious!) Twenty20 campaign he scored 62 at 12.4 and took 3 wickets at 40.33. His one innings of note was 42 off 25 when he opened against Tasmania.

  • v QLD – 3(4) and 4 overs 2/26

  • v WA – 9*(5) and 2 overs 0/14
  • v SA – 6(6) and 3 overs 0/27
  • v TAS – 42(25) and 2 overs 1/24
  • v VIC – 1(4) and DNB
  • v VIC – 1(9) and 3 overs 1/30

Whatever, he’s made the cut and I fully support the inclusion of more young players from Australia’s best domestic Twenty20 team. An added bonus is his name is so similar to my own that it’s almost as if I’m playing for Australia, just look for the drunk, overweight and unfit guy (no, not Jesse Ryder) on Sunday.

Aussie Squad for Twenty20 on Sunday

Michael Clarke (c) – NSW , 27
Brad Haddin (vc) – NSW , 31
Nathan Bracken – NSW , 31
Callum Ferguson – SA , 24
Moises Henriques – NSW , 22
Ben Hilfenhaus – TAS , 25
James Hopes – QLD , 30
David Hussey – VIC , 31
Mitchell Johnson – WA , 27
Peter Siddle – VIC , 24
Adam Voges – WA , 29
David Warner – NSW , 22
Cameron White – VIC , 25

Hussey and Ponting have been “rested”, I suspect Rick’s never played a T20 against New Zealand.

They’ve name a 13 man squad, which is a bit rude for the one discarded player who’ll also miss this round of the Sheffield Shield. Hopefully they’ll give him a bucket to collect donations.

3 thoughts on “Moises in, Warner back”

  1. It would be nice if Henriques actually did something, be it in Australian colours or NSW. I’m getting just a little tired of all the hype around him, which seems to have been around since he was in the Australian u/19 team. When he made a 50 earlier this season I heard people saying what a great sign it was, and hopefully now he’d start to fulfil all that promise.

    Of course he’s still only 22, but it’d be nice if the media and selectors would stop talking about him until he starts making runs or taking wickets.

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  2. Moises doesn’t deserve it a call up but good luck to him,

    For the record Punter played against NZ 1st ever T20i on Auckland in Feb 2005,

    You may remember it was match where all the Kiwi’s played with Moe’s’ & in their Retro uniform

    Punter cracked 30 from penultimate over (Darrel Tuffey) to race 93 and was on target for Ton but loss strike with 2 balls to go from Australian Debutant Mike Hussey who hit a six instead going for single to get punter back on strike, Punter finished 98NO