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Our Sunil's selected to play for Australia
Moonee Valley's Sunil Bhandari will be representing Australia at an Over 55s tournament in New Zealand in February.
Sunil has an excellent tournament representing Victoria in Perth earlier this season, and was rewarded with the Baggy Green for the Christchurch tournament. A left arm orthodox spinner, Sunil (pictured right) has been a big wicket taker for Moonee Valley across his 67 games, first playing with us in 2013/14. Up to the start of this season he had taken 131 wickets @ 8.87 - the second-best bowling average in our history. Sunil will become the sixth Moonee Valley player to take the field for Australia. Rex Bennett and Neil King played in the Australian Over 60s Ashes in England in 2015 and did something the Aussies were unable to do at that time - beat the Poms and bring home the trophy! International star Fawad Ahmed played two Twenty20 games for Moonee Valley. He has represented Australia at Twenty20 and One Day International level and toured England and the West Indies as part of our Test squad. Andrew Payton, who played 79 games for Moonee Valley starting in 2004/05, was a key member of the Australian team at the Special Olympics in India in 2006, where we won the bronze medal. And Damien Clarke, who played 24 games with Moonee Valley starting in 2017/18, played for Australia in a disabilities tournament.

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