AD Hales

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

AD Hales is a top-order batter who has played for England Cricket, Nottinghamshire and franchise sides across the globe, accumulating 14,378 runs in 492 matches. His primary format is T20, and the T20 Blast is where he has spent the most time, playing 121 matches for Nottinghamshire at a strike rate of 156.13. His overall career batting average is 31.12. On recent form, he has been involved in the 2025/26 ILT20 season with Desert Vipers, recording one half-century in ten outings across December 2025 and early January 2026.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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Sunrisers Hyderabad

ADHALES

Bat Avg

31.1

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Sunrisers Hyderabad · All-Rounder

Recent form

Hales scored 53 off 37 balls against Desert Vipers on 5 December 2025 but managed just 164 runs across the other nine innings in the ILT20 season opener, with scores of 46, 40 and 29 representing the

Strongest format

T20 Blast — Hales has played 121 T20 Blast matches for Nottinghamshire, scoring 3,274 runs at a strike rate of 156.13. That strike rate is the highest across any

Career stats overview

11 Test · 65 ODI · 416 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

Test

11 matches

573

Runs scored

Wickets taken

Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.

ODI

65 matches

2,330

Runs scored

Wickets taken

The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.

T20I

416 matches

11,475

Runs scored

Wickets taken

Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Home record

215

wickets

Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.

Fourth-innings force

112

wickets

A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.

Lower-order resilience

38.4

batting avg

At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.

Elite opposition

198

wkts in 48 M

Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.

Consistency

five-wicket hauls

Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.

WTC presence

finals played

In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.

Career threads

Beyond the numbers

14,378 runs across 492 career matches

Hales has accumulated 14,378 runs from 492 appearances across Tests, ODIs, T20 Internationals and a string of major franchise competitions. His overall batting average sits at 31.12, with a career strike rate of 123.79 across all formats.

T20 Blast: 3,274 runs at a strike rate of 156.13

In 121 T20 Blast appearances for Nottinghamshire, Hales has scored 3,274 runs at a strike rate of 156.13. That figure is his highest across any competition and reflects how effectively he operates in the domestic T20 format he knows best.

Trent Bridge: 2,835 runs at an average of 36.35

Across 87 matches at Trent Bridge, Hales has made 2,835 runs at an average of 36.35 and a strike rate of 152.67. No venue comes close in terms of both volume and consistency across his career.

Sri Lanka his strongest international opponent

Against Sri Lanka Cricket across 17 matches, Hales averages 41.82 with a strike rate of 74.68. His returns against West Indies (average 41.35 in 19 matches) are comparably strong, particularly given the higher strike rate of 118.75 in those contests.

ILT20 2025/26 season: one fifty from ten outings

Hales managed one half-century (53 from 37 balls) in his most recent ten matches, all in the International League T20 during December 2025 and early January 2026. The Desert Vipers suffered that fifty; six of the ten outings ended in defeat for his side.

Head-to-head

Vs opponents

Career totals broken down by the teams AD Hales has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Australia

Matches: 28
Runs: 696

Pakistan

Matches: 24
Runs: 739

South Africa

Matches: 20
Runs: 808

West Indies

Matches: 19
Runs: 703

New Zealand

Matches: 18
Runs: 596

Worcestershire

Matches: 18
Runs: 520

Derbyshire

Matches: 17
Runs: 519

Sri Lanka

Matches: 17
Runs: 711

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where AD Hales has turned out most often.

Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Matches: 87
Runs: 2,835

Dubai International Cricket Stadium

Matches: 28
Runs: 790

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches: 24
Runs: 607

County Ground

Matches: 23
Runs: 555

Manuka Oval

Matches: 17
Runs: 361

Old Trafford, Manchester

Matches: 16
Runs: 309

Adelaide Oval

Matches: 14
Runs: 520

Sharjah Cricket Stadium

Matches: 14
Runs: 449

Historical aggregates derived from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org) under ODC-BY licence. 2001/02–2026 IPL seasons. Batting average uses dismissals as the denominator; bowler wickets are credited only for bowler-kind dismissals (bowled, caught, lbw, caught-and-bowled, stumped, hit wicket). Venue and opposition splits are rebuilt after every ingest from the Cricsheet archive.