London: Having received his maiden call-up in the England ODI squad, hard-hitting batsman Alex Hales feels that the IPL snub he got during last edition, helped him turn into a better player.

In 2013, Nottinghamshire refused to release him for the IPL and during the last edition, dashing batsman was not picked up by any of the franchises. "Had I got picked up in the IPL who knows whether we would have been having this conversation now," Hales told the Daily Telegraph in an interview.