{"id":232807,"date":"2025-02-06T02:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/only-after-chris-gayle-alex-hales-leaves-kieron-pollard-behind-to-become-second-highest-scorer-in-t20-history\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T02:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:57:18","slug":"only-after-chris-gayle-alex-hales-leaves-kieron-pollard-behind-to-become-second-highest-scorer-in-t20-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/only-after-chris-gayle-alex-hales-leaves-kieron-pollard-behind-to-become-second-highest-scorer-in-t20-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Only after Chris Gayle! Alex Hales leaves Kieron Pollard behind to become second highest scorer\u00a0in\u00a0T20\u00a0history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2025\/02\/alex-hales-1-1738805804.webp?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Only after Chris Gayle! Alex Hales leaves Kieron Pollard behind to become second highest scorer\u00a0in\u00a0T20\u00a0history\" title=\"Only after Chris Gayle! Alex Hales leaves Kieron Pollard behind to become second highest scorer\u00a0in\u00a0T20\u00a0history\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : DESERTVIPERS X<\/span> Alex Hales scored a quickfire 32-ball 67 for the Desert Vipers in the first qualifier but his side lost the match<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/alex-hales\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Hales<\/a> continued to march towards breaking <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/chris-gayle\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Gayle<\/a>&#8216;s all-time T20 record as he left the likes of Kieron Pollard and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/shoaib-malik\" rel=\"noopener\">Shoaib Malik<\/a> behind to become the second-highest run-getter in the shortest format. Hales needed just two runs to go past Malik and 47 to leapfrog Pollard and he surpassed both of them during his 32-ball 67 for the Desert Vipers in the ILT20 qualifier against the Dubai Capitals, however, couldn&#8217;t get his team across the line as Sam Billings and Co made the final for the second consecutive season in a row.  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>Hales now stands just behind Gayle on the T20 leading run-getters list with 13,558 runs in the format having been a T20 globetrotter for a number of years and consistently scoring runs wherever he has played, whether it was for England, in the Big Bash League for Sydney Thunder, the CPL, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/ipl\" rel=\"noopener\">IPL<\/a> and in England&#8217;s local competitions T20 Blast and the Hundred. Hales is still 1,004 runs away from surpassing Gayle, however, with the way he is going, it won&#8217;t be that far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most runs in T20 cricket<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chris Gayle (2005-2022) &#8211; 14,562 (in 455 innings)<\/p>\n<p>\nAlex Hales (2009-2025) &#8211; 13,558 (in 488\u00a0innings)*<br \/>Kieron Pollard (2006-2025) &#8211; 13,537 (in 617 innings)<br \/>Shoaib Malik (2005-2024) &#8211; 13,492 (in 510 innings)<br \/>David Warner (2007-2025) &#8211; 12,909 (in 397 innings)<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/virat-kohli\" rel=\"noopener\">Virat Kohli<\/a> (2007-2024) &#8211; 12,886 (in 382 innings)    <\/p>\n<p>Hales, combined with cameos from Max Holden and Dan Lawrence guided the Vipers to a very good total of 189 runs batting first in a playoff match, however, the Capitals knew what they had to do and came out all guns blazing. Gulbadin Naib, the Afghan all-rounder was the star of the show with a 39-ball 62 but there were important contributions around him with Adam Rossington playing a quickfire 44 off just 31 deliveries while skipper Sam Billings made a 16-ball 38.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Capitals needed to knock off 21 in the final two overs and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/dasun-shanaka\" rel=\"noopener\">Dasun Shanaka<\/a> and Sikandar Raza provided finishing touches to take their side to the final. The Vipers will take on the winner of the eliminator between MI Emirates and Sharjah Warriorz.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/cricket\/only-after-chris-gayle-alex-hales-leaves-kieron-pollard-behind-to-become-second-highest-scorer-in-t20-history-2025-02-06-974867\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : DESERTVIPERS X Alex Hales scored a quickfire 32-ball 67 for the Desert Vipers in the first qualifier but his side lost the match Alex Hales continued to march towards breaking Chris Gayle&#8216;s all-time T20 record as he left the likes of Kieron Pollard and Shoaib Malik behind to become the second-highest run-getter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2025\/02\/alex-hales-1-1738805804.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[21999,64732,181850,181847,181849,181848,2790,8230,70284,173948,181852,4735,64739,3083,64734,70276,181851,2014,2011,5872,136834,2015,181853,25427],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232809,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232807\/revisions\/232809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}