{"id":59648,"date":"2025-08-11T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59648\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:33:08","slug":"cricket-2025-news-glenn-maxwell-catch-off-ryan-rickelton-in-australia-v-south-africa-t20-in-darwin-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59648\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket 2025 news, Glenn Maxwell catch off Ryan Rickelton in Australia v South Africa T20 in Darwin, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cricket<\/a> fans should be accustomed to seeing Glenn Maxwell<\/a> bend the rules of physics.<\/p>\n

But the Aussie veteran is still finding ways to stun viewers.<\/p>\n

He did it again late in Sunday’s Twenty20 match against South Africa in Darwin<\/a>, when the Proteas were desperately searching for runs in the final over.<\/p>\n

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Top-order batter Ryan Rickelton thought he had belted a six off the bowling of Ben Dwarshuis, but his fatal mistake was hitting it in the area Maxwell was patrolling.<\/p>\n

The ball sailed over the boundary rope but Maxwell somehow leapt over, caught it and flung it back over his shoulder before his feet hit the ground.<\/p>\n

He then turned and jumped back into the field of play while completing the catch, dismissing Rickelton for 71 and essentially ending South Africa’s hopes of victory.<\/p>\n

\"Glenn<\/p>\n

Glenn Maxwell flies over the boundary rope to dismiss Ryan Rickelton.\u00a0Fox Cricket<\/p>\n

“Maxwell does something amazing down there,” Fox Cricket commentator Mark Howard proclaimed.<\/p>\n

“Only Maxwell can do it. Brilliant, simply brilliant.”<\/p>\n

Australian great Mark Waugh – considered one of the best slip fielders of all time – was amazed at the 36-year-old’s athleticism.<\/p>\n

“How many times (can he do it)?” Waugh said.<\/p>\n

“How many times has Glenn Maxwell done this?<\/p>\n

“He’s jumped quite a long way over the rope here. That is freakish.<\/p>\n

“To have the skillset to lob it just the right distance away from yourself so that you can get there… perfect weight on the throw.<\/p>\n

“That’s just a great bit of fielding. The hard things he makes look easy.<\/p>\n

“Not many players can do regularly what he just did then.”<\/p>\n

Maxwell has made a habit of executing such boundary catches in recent years.<\/p>\n

Former Australian Test player Kerry O’Keeffe pointed out Maxwell’s ability actually increases the size of the field for batters.<\/p>\n

“He’s said ‘I stretch the boundary, it might be 67 metres but I make it 71 metres’, and he does,” O’Keeffe said.<\/p>\n

“This was a six until his hands lurked under it. He toys with ground dimensions.”<\/p>\n

Australia won the match by 17 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket fans should be accustomed to seeing Glenn Maxwell bend the rules of physics. But the Aussie veteran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-59648","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\/59648","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=59648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}