The veteran Nottinghamshire white ball cricket player Alex Hales will not play for County in 2025 and will play no English domestic cricket after 17 seasons. His decision was probably influenced by the ruling body of English and Welsh cricket the ECB to restrict the ability of players to appear elsewhere around the globe during the English domestic season from April to September (with the exception of the Indian Premier League which in effect rules world cricket)
Hales has a contract with the Knight Riders franchise and will in US Major League cricket and the Caribbean Premier League as well as, possibly, the Sri Lankan Premier League.
Hales may be the first Franchise cricketer from England but he is very unlikely to the last. Good news for him, less good for English cricket
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