Queanbeyan batsman Henry Hunt has been named to make his Comets debut. Photo: Matt Bedford <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Hunt then spent a couple of years commuting from Grenfell to Canberra for cricket until he finished high school. <\/p>\n
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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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
He didn't think he would be as nervous making his Futures League debut as he was that day. <\/p>\n
\"That game I was nervous, I didn't know many of the players,\" Hunt said. <\/p>\n
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