Queanbeyan batsman Henry Hunt has been named to make his Comets debut. Photo: Matt Bedford

Canberra cricket legend Peter Solway played a massive role in the Comets' past. Now coach Mark Higgs is hoping he has played a role in shaping their future.

Grenfell's Henry Hunt will make his debut for the Comets against a NSW second XI at Warwick Farm in Sydney on Monday that could contain former international cricketers Ben Rohrer and Trent Copeland.

Two years agoSolway put the 18-year-old in contact with coach Kyle Piper to get involved with the ACT under-17s after Solway spotted him at a NSW Combined High Schools carnival at Penrith in 2012.

Hunt then spent a couple of years commuting from Grenfell to Canberra for cricket until he finished high school.

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Now he is studying exercise and sports science at the University of Canberra and lives in Bruce with his sister Clare, who plays soccer for the ACT Academy of Sport.

While Hunt will make his debut for the Comets next week, he played for the ACT against Afghanistan in a pre-Cricket World Cup friendly at Manuka Oval in September.

He didn't think he would be as nervous making his Futures League debut as he was that day.

"That game I was nervous, I didn't know many of the players," Hunt said.

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ACT Comets name Henry Hunt to make his Futures League debut