{"id":27113,"date":"2026-08-11T19:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=27113"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:19:35","slug":"henriques-to-captain-portugal-in-wc-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=27113","title":{"rendered":"Henriques to captain Portugal in WC qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Former Australia all-rounder Moises Henriques will captain Portugal as they bid \u200bto qualify for the Twenty20 World \u200cCup for the first time, Cricket Portugal said on Tuesday on Instagram.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Henriques, who \u200bplayed four tests, 16 one-day internationals \u200band 24 T20s for Australia, will \u2060lead a 14-man Portugal squad \u200bat the T20 World Cup Europe Sub-Regional \u200bQualifier C in Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 39-year-old all-rounder, who was born in Madeira, the birthplace of Portuguese \u200bfootballer Cristiano Ronaldo, retired from \u200bAustralian domestic cricket last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Portugal face Israel, Germany, \u200cGreece \u2060and Czech Republic in Group B of the tournament, which runs from August 14-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group winners will advance to \u200ba final, \u200bwith \u2060the overall winners progressing to the European regional final alongside \u200bScotland, Jersey and Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The top \u200btwo \u2060teams from that event will secure places in the global qualifier for \u2060the \u200b2028 T20 World Cup \u200bin Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australia all-rounder Moises Henriques will captain Portugal as they bid \u200bto qualify for the Twenty20 World \u200cCup for the first time, Cricket Portugal said on Tuesday on Instagram. Henriques, who \u200bplayed four tests, 16 one-day internationals \u200band 24 T20s for Australia, will \u2060lead a 14-man Portugal squad \u200bat the T20 World Cup Europe Sub-Regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440","service":"facebook","timestamp":1786457998,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27115,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27113\/revisions\/27115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}