Hales left Pollard behind in T20 cricket, the record of West Indies veteran was found for a few hours

Samira Vishwas

Tezzbuzz|31-08-2025

Main point:

Hales has taken a big record in T20 cricket. Hales has now become the third batsman in the world to complete 14,000 runs in this format.

Delhi: England batsman Alex Hales has taken a big record in T20 cricket. Hales has now become the third batsman in the world to complete 14,000 runs in this format. Before that, only former West Indies veteran Chris Gayle and Karen Pollard were able to achieve. Significantly, Pollard recently did this feat. However, Hales left him behind in a few hours.

List of most runs scorers in T20

With this achievement, Hales has now finished second in terms of scoring runs in T20 cricket.

  • Chris Gayle – 14,562 runs (463 matches)
  • Alex Hales – 14,024 runs (509 matches),
  • Kiren Pollard – 14,012 runs (713 matches)
  • David Warner – 13,595 runs
  • Shoaib Malik – 13,571 runs

It is clear that in the coming time, both the players will have a chance to break the record of Chris Gayle.

Great performance in CPL 2025

These days Alex Hales Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is playing for Trinbago Knight Riders in 2025. He achieved this special achievement in the match against Guyana Amazon Warriors. Hales batting quickly hit 74 runs off 43 balls, which included 3 fours and 7 sixes. His strike rate was 172.09.

Munro’s fast innings made it easier to win

Apart from Hales, Trinbago batsman Colin Munro also batted amazing. He scored 52 runs in just 30 balls. With the help of both batsmen, Trinbago Knight Riders achieved the target of 164 runs by losing 6 wickets in 17.2 overs.

Amazon Warriors’ innings

Earlier, Guyana Amazon Warriors won the toss and batted and scored 163 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. For the team, Shai Hope, playing the biggest innings, scored 39 runs off 29 balls.

At the same time, in this way Alex Hales not only won its team, but also achieved a historic place in T20 cricket.