The x-factor allrounder, who also retires from List A cricket, bows out of the international scene with three World Cups to his name<\/p>\n
Glenn Maxwell has drawn a line under his wonderful Australian career with retirement from T20 International cricket.<\/p>\n
Maxwell, who retired from ODI cricket in June last year, was the oldest player in Australia’s disappointing T20I World Cup campaign at the beginning of this year, with those matches now the last of a 13-year, 130-game career in the format at international level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Australia have played just three T20Is since, in Bangladesh, where some younger players were introduced to the setup.<\/p>\n
“We probably had numerous discussions before and after the T20 World Cup,” Maxwell said on the Final Word podcast. “And it was pretty open-ended. There wasn’t any pressure from (Australia team management), and we decided to sort of leave the door open. There was a couple of series that were coming up (in which) they were going to look to the future, and we saw that in Bangladesh with guys getting their opportunity and performing really well.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Art of the run chase: Maxwell’s tactics for reaching the target<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old will continue his quest for a maiden Big Bash title with Melbourne Stars, with whom he is contracted until the end of the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n
He leaves T20 International cricket as Australia’s third-highest run scorer (2,897) behind David Warner and Aaron Finch, and as one of just two batters, alongside India’s Rohit Sharma, to have scored five T20I centuries.<\/p>\n
The first of those came a touch over a decade ago when, opening the batting in Pallekele, he blazed a stunning 145no from 65 balls, with nine sixes. The four that followed (two in Australia, two in India) were all scored from number four in a six-year window between 2018 and 2024, when the Victorian was perhaps at his most consistently damaging for his country in the format.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Maxwell, who also boasts a classic catches catalogue to rival anyone’s, hit the winning runs in Australia’s triumphant 2021 T20 World Cup campaign, and his extraordinary 360-degree hitting capabilities added an extra dimension to an Australian side that was slow to move into the T20 world.<\/p>\n
Every ball of Maxwell’s magic T20 ton from 2018<\/p>\n
\u00a0The right-hander most recently turned out for Victoria in a couple of one-day matches but has also called stumps on his List A career. He has not played a first-class match since 2023.<\/p>\n
“Post the last one-day game for Victoria, speaking to my team-mates and letting them know that that was going to be my last game for the state was probably harder than I thought it was going to be,” he said. “Knowing that they’ve played such a huge role in my whole career, every time I’ve come back, had great team-mates there and a lot of support from the state, I certainly got a little bit choked up speaking in front of the group.<\/p>\n
“It’s probably a time where I need to spend a little bit more time investing in the body to make sure I can get through the remaining couple of tournaments I’ve got in my career.”<\/p>\n
Maxwell said he would be managing his knee to ensure he is ready for the BBL, with the Stars’ opening match on December 18 against Adelaide at the MCG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The x-factor allrounder, who also retires from List A cricket, bows out of the international scene with three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,83],"class_list":["post-950409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950409","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=950409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}