Moises Henriques, Australian Cricketer, Once Considered Suicide During New South Wales vs Tasmania Sheffield Shield Match

Australian cricketer Moises Henriques has revealed that during his battle with depression, he once thought about suicide during a match. The Portuguese-born cricketer was diagnosed with clinical depression in 2017. And it was during a Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and Tasmania that he contemplated suicide. “If you looked up the depression symptoms on Google, I was ticking off every single one of them, and quite severely. There were probably two to three months where I was in a really bad place, trying to function on one or two hours sleep. I lost about ten kilos in maybe four weeks. I went from 98 kilos to 88 kilos in the space of four weeks. You don’t wish it on your worst enemy. I was an absolute mess,” Henriques told Neroli Meadows on the Ordineroli Speaking Podcast. Gloucestershire's George Hankins Arrested for Drunk-Driving Incident After Car Crash in Surrey.

“I won the toss at Bankstown Oval in a Shield game against Tasmania, and we elected to bowl on what I thought was going to be a green seamer. At the end of the day, they were 2/290. Come day two, they get 450, declare, and we’re 5/90 going into the end of day two. I got out for like 20-odd,” the cricketer said.

“I remember driving down the M5 back home, doing 110 km/h, and I remember thinking to myself in the car, ‘If I just ran straight into this pole here, what would happen? What would be the consequence of what would happen?’ I can’t do that. It’s not fair on my brothers, it’s not fair on [my partner] and it’s not fair on all these people who are there for me. I can’t leave my team with ten men for the next two days. I ended up having to pull over because I was crying so heavily and I was shaking. I had to pull over, just took five minutes,” he added.

“That wasn’t even at my worst, that was just a fleeting moment … Even at that stage, I didn’t think I had a really bad problem,” the 33-year-old added.

Henriques has been out of Australia team since 2017 and last time he played an International match was a T20I against India. The all-rounder has represented Australia in four Tests, 11 ODIs and as many T20Is. He has two half-centuries each in Tests and T20Is. In limited appearances, he managed to pick only two, seven and four wickets in Tests, ODIs and T20Is respectively.

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