Alexander Daniel Hales is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batter who currently plays for Nottinghamshire and the England cricket team in a white ball, limited-overs formats.
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He made his One Day International debut against India in August 2014 and his Test cricket debut against South Africa in December 2015. Hales is the first English batter to score a T20I century. He is also the first batter to be dismissed for 99 in an ODI and a T20I.
On 29 April 2019, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced that Hales had been dropped from England’s preliminary World Cup squad and all England squads ahead of the international season.
Hales was not called up for England for the rest of England captain Eoin Morgan’s tenure, with Morgan stating that Hales had lost the trust of the team.
In September 2022, Hales was called back to the English T20 squad for the T20 World Cup, as a late replacement for the injured Jonny Bairstow.
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He has no children. He attended the Westbrook Hay School as well as the Chesham High School in Buckinghamshire. In 2005, Hales was first noticed after scoring a smashing 55 off an over at the age of 16 years in the Cricket Idol T20 tournament at Lords.
In 2006, Hales represented Buckinghamshire in the Minor Counties cricket season and played for the MCC Young Cricketers in the 2007 Second XI Championship.
In the same year, he scored an impressive 218 runs in his second county appearance playing for Nottinghamshire and followed it up with a century and two 95s.
For his international cricket debut, Hales represented the England Under-19 team in 2008, for a series of youth Test and ODI matches against a touring New Zealand Under-19 side.
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