The England batsman believes his side contain what it takes to win the World T20 and is determined to improve his Test form after disappointment in South Africa‘And it’s all over,baby … because this guy just sent it to the moon!” So hollered Danny Morrison on the commentary two years ago as Alex Hales launched his sixth and final six into the night sky in Chittagong, completing a thrilling chase of 190 by England that resulted in the eventual champions Sri Lanka’s only defeat at the 2014 World Twenty20. For once, or the manic Morrison was being restrained,with Hales’s unbeaten 116 from 64 balls not just the first and only international Twenty20 hundred by an English batsman but up there with the most blistering assaults unleashed by one in a global tournament.
Hales recalls this stratospheric knock in more bashful tones when we meet before his departure to India for the 2016 World Twenty20. “That’s my proudest moment for England,” he says. “But I sound like I’m blowing my own trumpet; there were plenty of slogs in there.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com