All-rounder in disbelief over Ashes snub

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NSW all-rounder Moises Henriques has revealed his daze astatine being snubbed by selectors for the Ashes and Australia A squads, declaring helium has "a antithetic view" and labelling his omission "a immense fall".

Henriques, who's played each 1 of his 4 Tests successful India and Sri Lanka, went tantalisingly adjacent to pulling connected the baggy greenish connected Australian ungraded past summer.

But portion Henriques was selected successful Australia's squad for past summer's four-Test bid against India, and again for the three-Test circuit of South Africa, which was abandoned owed to COVID-19, the middle-order batter is abruptly connected the outer.

Of the 19-player radical picked to circuit South Africa successful February and March, Henriques, James Pattinson (retired) and Will Pucovski (concussion) were the lone members not selected for the Ashes and Australia A squads.

"I person a antithetic presumption to what the selectors do," Henriques said.

"To beryllium picked connected 1 Test circuit and beryllium told that I was determination and thereabouts to beryllium playing connected that tour, past the adjacent Test circuit rolls astir and you're not successful the champion 25 ...

"It's a immense fall, considering I hadn't played immoderate different four-day games oregon (Sheffield) Shield games successful that break.

"I didn't hold with the process of it all. I didn't truly recognize the logic (of being omitted).

"But it's not my occupation to recognize the logic, either; it's conscionable my occupation to spell retired and support playing arsenic good arsenic I can."

Henriques' enactment lawsuit was hindered by Indian Premier League commitments with the Punjab Kings.

Matthew Wade batted astatine 5 successful Australia's astir caller Test, against India astatine the Gabba successful January, but was booted for the slated circuit of South Africa and again overlooked for this summer's fixtures.

Travis Head and Usman Khawaja look to beryllium successful a two-man combat for Australia's No.5 spot, portion middle-order batters Nic Maddinson and Matthew Renshaw earned enactment successful the Australia A squad.

National enactment seat George Bailey said Henriques' omission didn't needfully mean his Test vocation was done.

"Unfortunate for him, that we haven't been capable to spot him play immoderate cricket up until this point," Bailey said.

"I've been successful bully interaction with Mo and helium knows that not being here, surely arsenic portion of the A squad, is not needfully the extremity for him.

"We cognize he's a prime subordinate and he's been peculiarly consistent, but I conjecture it's a flimsy quality of our Ashes absorption of trying to triumph the present and present versus the equilibrium of the Australia A game."

Henriques played 3 Tests connected Australia's 2013 circuit of India and made 1 much quality successful Sri Lanka successful 2016.

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"I inactive judge if I people capable runs, support banging the doorway down and support doing what I cognize I tin bash well, past I'll inactive play different Test lucifer for Australia," Henriques said.

The Brisbane Test, the archetypal lucifer of the Ashes, volition commencement connected December 8.

Henriques volition again skipper the Sydney Sixers successful the Big Bash League this summer, opening with a tournament-opening crippled against the Melbourne Stars astatine the SCG connected Saturday.

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