Alex Hales attains major T20 landmark after inventive knock in The Hundred

Alex Hales in English colours back in 2018

Out of favour English batsman Alex Hales continues to shine as a T20 freelancer. Quite recently, the dynamic opener clubbed a 29-ball 59 for Trent Rockets in The Hundred game at Nottingham.

His inventive boundary-laden knock turned out to be a match-winning one as his side claimed a 25-run win and crucial points off the Oval Invincibles.

Alex Hales scales 10,000 in T20s, becomes first Englishman to do so

During the course of his match-winning innings, Hales also exceeded the 10,000-run mark in T20 cricket. The 33-year-old currently sits at 10,044 runs across 355 matches at an average of 30.90, with five tons and 63 half-centuries to his name.

He is the eighth cricketer in T20 history to cross the 10,000-run barrier, behind the likes of West Indies’ T20 barbarians Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard, Pakistan’s Shoaib Malik, Australian openers David Warner and Aaron Finch and India’s batting mavericks Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, all in that order.

Notably, among all eight batters, the Englishmen holds the second-best strike-rate (147.81) after Pollard’s 151.17.

He is also the first player from his country to reach the coveted milestone, with the next best being Luke Wright’s tally of 8,526 runs. Jos Buttler, James Vince and Ravi Bopara are next on the list of most proficient English T20 batters, all with more than 8,000 runs to their name.

Alex Hales in The Hundred 2022

The right-handed opener has piled up 199 runs across five innings for Trent Rockets in the ongoing hundred-ball competition. The cricketer’s next assignment includes a match-up against London Spirit on August 20.

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