ODI Knocks Of Glenn Maxwell: Following the ODI retirements of Marcus Stoinis and Steve Smith on either side of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, the power-hitting all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has also bid adieu to the ODI format.
A two-time ODI World Cup winner, Maxwell revealed that he had informed the chief selector, George Bailey, that he doesn’t see himself playing in the 2027 World Cup in South Africa due to the physical toll of ODI cricket.
Maxwell leaves ODI cricket with a thunderous record for a middle-order batsman and a finisher. He hammered 3990 runs at an average of 33.81 and a strike rate of 126.70; among batsmen who scored over 2000 ODI runs, nobody had a better strike rate than Maxwell’s, and among those who faced more than 500 balls in the format, only Andre Russell had a higher strike rate of 130.22, but Russell scored almost only one-fourth of Maxwell’s career ODI runs.
Making his ODI debut in 2012, Glenn Maxwell notched up four centuries and 23 fifties in 149 innings. He played a crucial role in Australia winning the 2015 World Cup at home and the 2023 World Cup in India. He also took 77 wickets with his more than handy off-spin while maintaining a fine economy of 5.46.
Let us look at three of Glenn Maxwell’s best ODI innings.
Top 3 ODI Knocks Of Glenn Maxwell
3. 106 (44) vs Netherlands, Delhi, 2023
It was a typical Maxwell barnstorming innings as he smoked the Dutch bowlers in a mind-blowing display of hitting boundaries. On a flat surface at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, Maxwell hammered a 40-ball century against the Netherlands to record the fastest hundred at a men’s ODI World Cup and beat his own record for the fastest ODI ton by an Australian men’s cricketer.
Maxwell hit nine fours and eight sixes in his sizzling knock to propel Australia’s total to 399. Australia won by a whopping 309 runs, with Maxwell’s innings going down in the record book.
2. 108 (90) vs England, Manchester, 2020
Played in the backdrop of COVID-19 with no fans in the stadium, each hit off Glenn Maxwell’s middle of the bat resounded in the empty Old Trafford Stadium as the ‘Big Show’ went about his way to pull Australia out of trouble in a tall run chase against the then-reigning ODI world champions, Eoin Morgan’s England.
Chasing 303, Australia suffered an early slide to 73/5. Maxwell joined Alex Carey in the middle, and both produced an outstanding partnership of 212 runs, with both knocking off their respective centuries. The right-hander clattered four fours and seven sixes, raising his century off 84 balls. Australia won with only two balls to spare and sealed the series 2-1.
1. 201* (128) vs Afghanistan, Mumbai, 2023
In Australia’s clash against Afghanistan in the 2023 World Cup at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Glenn Maxwell produced an innings that has been hailed by many, not least by Sachin Tendulkar, as the greatest ODI innings of all time.
Chasing 292 against Afghanistan in virtually a must-win contest for Australia, Maxwell walked in at the score of 4/49, which soon turned 91/7, and a massive upset looked set on the cards. However, this brought Glenn Maxwell the opportunity to defy all odds—including the heat and humid Mumbai conditions that left him cramping for more than half of his innings—and deliver an iconic innings.
He could barely walk or stand on two legs. This liberated him further, and with no option but to go for the boundaries, Maxwell kept swinging and kept hitting from the middle of the bat. With Pat Cummins blocking out most of the balls he faced, Maxwell bludgeoned one boundary after another.
All in, Maxwell whacked 21 fours and 10 sixes in his unbelievable innings of 201* off 128 balls, finishing the chase with a meaty six as well. This victory gave Australia the momentum they needed after two early losses in the competition, which they used to fuel their title-winning campaign.
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