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Alex Hales

Kolkata Knight Riders· latest contract 2022

BATIPL

CricOptics rating

3.1 / 5

Rated as a batter · 14 matches in the last year, newest weighted most

How is this rated?

Batter

Role

England

Country

pace · Right-arm medium

Bowling

₹1.50 Cr

Latest price

auction · 2022 · IPL 2027 not announced yet

₹1.50 Cr

Highest price

auction 2022

2018

Seen in our data

6 matches

Price history

What this player was paid, season by season.

Latest: ₹1.50 Cr

Highest: ₹1.50 Cr (auction 2022)

0₹1 Cr₹2 Cr2022

Auction prices and retention or trade salaries share the line. A retention is a negotiated salary, not a bid.

Season summary

Their own figures in each season, one season at a time.

Season rating /10
5.9
Matches
6
Runs
148
Strike rate
125.4
Average
24.7
Wickets
–

Recent matches

Their last matches in our data, newest first, each rated out of 10.

DateOpponentResultBatBowlRating /10
17 May 2018RCBL14 runs37 (24)–6.8
13 May 2018CSKL8 wkts2 (9)–4.4
10 May 2018DDW9 wkts14 (10)–6.1
7 May 2018RCBW5 runs5 (5)––
5 May 2018DDW7 wkts45 (31)–6.7
29 Apr 2018RRW11 runs45 (39)–5.4

Career stats

Career-to-date through the 2018 season, from ball-by-ball match data.

BattingPrimary

Matches
6
Runs
148
Average
24.67
Strike rate
125.42
Fours
13
Sixes
6

Bowling

Wickets
0
Economy
—
Average
—
Strike rate
—

Fielding

Catches
2
Stumpings
0

All T20 cricket

Every T20 and T20 international in our match archive, not only the IPL or WPL. Men's domestic T20 is included; Indian domestic women's T20 is not in the data.

Matches
480
Internationals
73
Runs
13233
Average
30.2
Strike rate
145.1
50s / 100s
83 / 8
High score
119
Years
2011–2026

Where this comes from and how current it is. Match records are from Cricsheet, a free ball-by-ball archive. Ours runs to 25 October 2026. It refreshes by itself every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, so matches from the last few days may not be in yet. The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is only partly covered: seasons 2015/16 and 2017/18 to 2024/25, about 58% of its matches, and nothing after December 2024. Indian domestic women’s T20 is not covered at all. A match missing here does not mean the player did not play it.

Auction history

Every auction this player was sold at, from the dataset.

Auction history
2022
Kolkata Knight Riders
₹1.50 Cr

Retentions, trades and releases

How this player arrived at (or left) a team when it was not an auction. A retention is a negotiated salary capped by the retention rules — it is not an auction price, and the two are not comparable.

2023ReleasedKolkata Knight Riders₹1.50 Cr
2019ReleasedSunrisers Hyderabad₹1.00 Cr

Season by season

Career-to-date totals at the end of each season they played.

Career-to-date stats by season
2018614824.67125.420—

This season's stats

What they actually did in that season alone — not the career-to-date total above. Click a season for the full breakdown.

This season's own stats, by season
201814824.67125.42——

About Alex Hales

Written from our own data: date of birth and birthplace from Wikidata, figures from ball-by-ball match data, prices from the auction and retention tables.

Alex Hales is a 37-year-old batter from England, born in Hillingdon on 3 January 1989. Their most recent auction on record is with Kolkata Knight Riders (2022).

Across 6 IPL matches in 2018, Alex Hales scored 148 runs at an average of 24.7 and a strike rate of 125.4.

The highest price on record is ₹1.50 Cr (auction, 2022, Kolkata Knight Riders). They have been sold at auction 1 time.

IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Alex Hales's 2027 contract is not on record.

Auction value

What this player would likely go for in the next auction, from the same market model as the Predictor page.

If Alex Hales were in the IPL 2027 auction

₹0.82 Cr

likely range ₹0.75 Cr to ₹1.35 Cr

Rank
#161 of 168 active players
Current salary
none on record

Not in the active pool (no contract or recent season), so this is priced from their last record: low confidence.

An estimate of the market price, not a promise. How it is built and how accurate it was is on the Predictor page.

Sold for
₹1.50 Cr
IPL 2022
CricOptics rating
3.1 / 5
overall, newest matches weighted most