Alex Hales spent the end of last season playing for Nottinghamshire’s Second XI after averaging just 13.94 in 18 County Championship innings. Now, less than 12 months on, he is being talked up as a potential opening partner for Alastair Cook in next summer’s Ashes and hailed as the answer to England’s pedestrian progress in one-day cricket in the run-up to the 2015 World Cup. It has been quite some turnaround but the man watching his pyrotechnics from the opposite end believes that Hales has what it takes to bring his approach in the county game...
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