In only his second game of the Pepsi IPL 2015, Moises Henriques played an important role in Sunrisers Hyderabad’s successful outing against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali. He helped consolidate the SRH innings first and then returned to bowl in the crucial middle-phase of the run-chase to keep his side in the reckoning. Coming in to bat at No 4, he stitched a crucial 45-run partnership with Naman Ojha, and later accounted for the wicket of George Bailey to put the hosts under pressure. The visitors did have a few nervy moments but the team put forth a commendable performance to claim a much needed victory. While speaking to iplt20.com, Henriques talked about executing his role as an all-rounder for the side and also credited his teammates, especially Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Trent Boult, for their roles in pulling off a win. Excerpts from the interview: Was it a little difficult to bat on in the middle earlier? It was a strange wicket. It wasn’t doing anything sideways and unless you were really trying to hit big, it wasn’t actually too bad. It was a tough kind of wicket to get under the ball and to accelerate because it was quite low and slow, but there weren’t any tricks in the wicket or anything like that. If you bowled badly you got hit, but they bowled well and we bowled equally well too. Your partnership with Naman Ojha was crucial. Can you talk us through that? We set up a good foundation to start going there at the end. Probably at one stage we thought that we were going to get about 160 runs on the board but they started hitting all their yorkers really well and we couldn’t really get some away. And then Ashish Reddy hit a couple of big sixes in that last over just to get us to 150, which we knew on that wicket if we bowled well enough and fielded well, we would be able to defend. When you came on to bowl, George Bailey was batting well. Was there a plan that led to his dismissal? Not much. The first two balls that I bowled to him were sort of back-of-length and because I had all my fielders there (in the same place) I thought he would be expecting that again. So I just tried to get a little bit fuller - I probably over pitched it a little bit, but luckily for me he mistimed it and got caught at mid-off. But on another day that might have gone over mid-off or whatever; so I will take my luck. Slower balls are something that bowlers are using lot more, but batsmen too are learning to pick them. You had David Miller surprised. How do use them effectively? I guess it’s about keeping batsmen guessing about what’s coming; so one has to try not to be too predictable and try and bowl the same length whether it is a slower ball or a faster ball. And when you are not bowling a slower ball, to make sure you are giving it everything, you got to surprise them a little bit even on a low and slow wicket. Try and hit the bat hard and bowl that good length - that probably is the most important thing; when you are bowling slower balls or anything, one has to make sure that it’s on the right length. An all-rounder plays a vital role in T20. How do you see the responsibility and how much work goes into developing both skills? I know that you are not always going to be able to go out there and score runs and take wickets. So to make sure whatever you do first (do it well). If that doesn’t go well, (you have) to make sure you make up for it in the second innings and not let it bother you too much because you’ve still got a job to do with either the bat or the ball. I think one of the main things you do is to stay levelled and no matter what happens you have a job to do. And to not worry too much about what’s gone in the past and focus more on what’s coming up in the future. The way Wriddhiman Saha and Axar Patel were going towards the end, the match looked poised for tight finish. Did you feel nervous at the end? Yes! When they were batting there they just started to get a little bit of momentum and they hit a couple of more boundaries and (were lucky to get away with) couple of dropped catches. The crowd started to enjoy the game and that’s good for cricket. It wasn’t very good for us (smiles) but it’s good for the fans to get them involved. I am sure if we had our time again we would much rather take those catches and we might have won by 30 or 40 runs but we will take the win. Our bowlers executed really well. We dropped a couple of catches which hopefully in another game we might be able to take. However they were really difficult chances and you’ve got to give credit to both the guys for getting in a position to take those catches because you need to have the courage to run up. Ravi (Bopara) covered a lot of ground to even to get to that; so that was a good effort. Holding your nerve is the key to success in T20, you reckon? Exactly right! You always want to back yourself and keep backing your own skills and what you do. To be able to absorb pressure longer than the other team can do it; we did that tonight and Bhuvneshwar (Kumar) was fantastic again under pressure. He just bowled six perfect yorkers there and it shows how well he is holding his nerve at the moment. At this juncture with winning everything being crucial, how much confidence would SRH take, especially from an away win? Yes it is. We have had a couple of games that could have gone either way and it’s nice to get over the line. At one stage when they needed to get 30 odd runs off three overs, it was in the balance and they got away with a couple of boundaries. But then Trent (Boult) bowled a good over and Bhuvneshwar (Kumar) followed it up with an equally good over. So hopefully if we will start winning more of those games than we lose, then we should be in good stead.