{"id":108447,"date":"2025-08-31T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108447\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:23:07","slug":"cpl-2025-results-alex-hales-overtakes-kieron-pollard-for-most-t20-runs-as-knight-riders-beat-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108447\/","title":{"rendered":"CPL 2025 results: Alex Hales overtakes Kieron Pollard for most T20 runs as Knight Riders beat Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s T20 World Cup-winning opener Alex Hales crashed 74 to set up Trinbago Knight Riders&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-226833\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">six-wicket win<\/a> over Guyana Amazon Warriors in the Caribbean Premier League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hales, 36, smashed three fours and seven sixes off 43 balls to help break the back of a chase of 164.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He shared 116 with Colin Munro (52 off 30) for the first wicket, before the New Zealander became the first of three wickets to fall in the 11th over to Imran Tahir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicholas Pooran and Keacy Carty both fell without scoring but Hales put on 20 with Kieron Pollard to settle any nerves. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hales was dismissed with 27 required but Pollard (12* off 14) and Andre Russell (27* off 14) got Knight Riders over the line with 16 balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hales has now overtaken Pollard to become the second-highest run-scorer in T20 history. Hales has 14,024 runs, with Pollard 12 runs behind in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Indies great Chris Gayle leads the way with 14,562 so Hales is 538 behind. He has a minimum of four CPL games remaining, but Knight Riders are well positioned to reach the play-offs. He is also set to play in the International League T20 in December. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Warriors posted 163-9 after being asked to bat first. Shai Hope top-scored with 39 before he was out hit wicket, while Akeal Hosein was the pick of the bowlers with 3-27. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win sees Knight Riders consolidate top spot, while Warriors are fourth with two wins in four matches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s T20 World Cup-winning opener Alex Hales crashed 74 to set up Trinbago Knight Riders&#8217; six-wicket win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-108447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}