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Alex Hales
- Age
- 37y 313d
- Bats
- Right-hand
- Bowls
- Right-arm medium
- From
- Hillingdon
- Age
- 37y 313d
- Bats
- Right-hand
- Bowls
- Right-arm medium
- From
- Hillingdon
Alex Hales, a tall top-order batsman standing 6'5", built his name on attacking, enterprising strokeplay. Sport runs in the family: his grandfather Dennis Hales was a tennis player who once took Rod Laver to five sets at Wimbledon. Hales first drew attention at 16, when, at the London County Cricket Club's Founders Day at Lord's in 2005, he struck 52 runs in one over on the way to an unbeaten 114. Three years later Nottinghamshire signed him, and in 2009 he made 150 from 102 deliveries against Worcestershire in a Pro40 fixture. He also scored three fifties on England Under-19 duty in New Zealand in 2008, joined the English Performance squad for 2009-10 and spent the 2011 summer with the England Lions.
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His county output grew quickly. He was Nottinghamshire's leading scorer in the Friends Life T20 with 544 runs at a strike-rate of 147, and his 1,000 first-class runs that season, including 184 against Somerset, earned him the PCA young player of the year award. He added 857 first-class runs with two centuries in 2012.
His England T20 career opened with a duck against India in 2011, but he soon answered with 62 off 48 balls against West Indies at The Oval. In 2012 he fell one short of a hundred with a match-winning 99 against West Indies at Trent Bridge, and he made 124 runs in five innings at the World T20 in Sri Lanka. A 94 off 61 balls against Australia followed in August 2013, and on debut for Melbourne Renegades in the 2012-13 Big Bash he hit 89 off 52 at the SCG. Ranked the ICC's No. 1 T20I batsman, he became England's first T20I centurion against Sri Lanka at the 2014 World T20, the only hundred of that event.
His ODI start, beginning in Cardiff against India, was modest, and at the 2015 World Cup he opened only against Afghanistan. After England's rebuild he thrived alongside Jason Roy, collecting a Man of the Series award for four successive fifties in South Africa and a 171 against Pakistan at Trent Bridge in 2016 as England posted 444, the highest ODI total. His Test stint lasted 11 matches. He helped Nottinghamshire win the Royal London Cup and the T20 Blast, and after a hand injury in India in January 2017 he returned with a century in the West Indies.
In 2019 a failed recreational drug test brought a 21-day ban and his removal from the World Cup squad, and under Eoin Morgan he was not considered again. Recalled under Jos Buttler for the 2022 T20 World Cup after Jonny Bairstow was injured, he made a player-of-the-match 86 in the semi-final and finished his England career as a champion. He has also played franchise cricket in the BBL, IPL, PSL, BPL, CPL, ILT20 and The Hundred.
