Glenn Maxwell, the man behind some of Australia's most memorable one-day moments has called time on a 13-year ODI career.
The Australian allrounder on Monday announced he was retiring from the first format he played his country in, all the way back in 2012, having scored almost 4,000 runs from his 149 ODIs.
The 36-year-old, who continues to manage the left leg he broke in an horrific 2022 accident, told selection chief George Bailey during February's Champions Trophy tournament he did not think he would make it to the 2027 ODI World Cup.
"I said to him right then and there, 'I don't think I'm going to make that'," the two-time ODI World Cup winner told the Final Word podcast.
"I think it's time to start planning for people in my position, to have a crack at it and try and make that spot their own for the for the 2027 World Cup. Hopefully they get enough of a lead-in where they can have success in that role."
Maxwell is understood to have made his mind up on his ODI retirement well before the finger injury that ruled him out of this year's Indian Premier League, as per Cricket Australia.
Maxwell will be as difficult to replace as any of Australia's recent ODI retirees.
The mercurial right-hander occupies a unique position among the ODI batting greats; of batters to have maintained a strike-rate above 120 (Maxwell finishes with a career mark of 126.70) only one other has scored more than 400 runs (Andre Russell – 130.22).
In fact, Maxwell goes out with the highest batting strike-rate in ODI history among any batter to have scored at least 2,000 runs.
Add in his two World Cup crowns (2015 and 2023), his off-spin bowling that netted him 77 wickets at 47.32, as well as his status as one of the game's best fielders, and it is clear Maxwell will go down as one of the format's legends.
His miracle ODI double-century against Afghanistan at the 2023 World Cup will be remembered as one of the best white-ball innings ever.
"This was a moment, like Steve Waugh's Ashes ton on the last ball of the day, or Michael Bevan's final four to beat the Windies. One of those events that makes you ask ‘Where were you when...," Maxwell wrote in 2024 book, The Showman.
"It was crazy to think that I now had one of these, a moment when Australia was all on board."
The Australian allrounder on Monday announced he was retiring from the first format he played his country in, all the way back in 2012, having scored almost 4,000 runs from his 149 ODIs.
The 36-year-old, who continues to manage the left leg he broke in an horrific 2022 accident, told selection chief George Bailey during February's Champions Trophy tournament he did not think he would make it to the 2027 ODI World Cup.
"I said to him right then and there, 'I don't think I'm going to make that'," the two-time ODI World Cup winner told the Final Word podcast.
"I think it's time to start planning for people in my position, to have a crack at it and try and make that spot their own for the for the 2027 World Cup. Hopefully they get enough of a lead-in where they can have success in that role."
Maxwell is understood to have made his mind up on his ODI retirement well before the finger injury that ruled him out of this year's Indian Premier League, as per Cricket Australia.
Maxwell will be as difficult to replace as any of Australia's recent ODI retirees.
The mercurial right-hander occupies a unique position among the ODI batting greats; of batters to have maintained a strike-rate above 120 (Maxwell finishes with a career mark of 126.70) only one other has scored more than 400 runs (Andre Russell – 130.22).
In fact, Maxwell goes out with the highest batting strike-rate in ODI history among any batter to have scored at least 2,000 runs.
Add in his two World Cup crowns (2015 and 2023), his off-spin bowling that netted him 77 wickets at 47.32, as well as his status as one of the game's best fielders, and it is clear Maxwell will go down as one of the format's legends.
His miracle ODI double-century against Afghanistan at the 2023 World Cup will be remembered as one of the best white-ball innings ever.
"This was a moment, like Steve Waugh's Ashes ton on the last ball of the day, or Michael Bevan's final four to beat the Windies. One of those events that makes you ask ‘Where were you when...," Maxwell wrote in 2024 book, The Showman.
"It was crazy to think that I now had one of these, a moment when Australia was all on board."
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