About Moises Henriques
Moisés Constantino Henriques ( MO-ses hen-REE-kez; born 1 February 1987) is a Portuguese-Australian cricketer who is the current captain of the Portugal national cricket team, having also previously played for Australia. Henriques played the majority of his career as an Australian cricketer, where he played for New South Wales and the Sydney Sixers. He is the player to have played the most matches in Australian domestic cricket history, across the Sheffield Shield, One-Day Cup and Big Bash League. An all-rounder, he became the first cricketer born in Portugal to play for Australia in an international match. == Under-19s career == At 16 years of age, Henriques was selected for the Australian U-19 cricket team's squad for the 2004 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Bangladesh, where he took 11 wickets at 19.27 and scored 95 runs at 19.00. In September 2005, Henriques was named in Australia's U-19 squad to tour India for a One Day series against the Indian U-19 cricket team. Whilst Australia lost the series, Henriques was a stand out. He scored 132 runs at an average of 44.00 and claimed 8 wickets at 18.25. Henriques was named captain of the Australian U-19 team for the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka, and performed to great acclaim as he led the Australians to a semi-final berth. He was a stand out player of the tournament, scoring 150 runs at 37.50 and finished as the World Cup's leading wicket-taker, claiming 16 wickets at 10.52 in 5 matches.
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