Maxwell retires from ODI's

[cricketnut14]

a bridge to far and just couldn't make it to the world cup 2027.

integral part of the 2015 & 2023 winning world cup squads.

will never forget his 201* v afghanistan in the 2023 world cup.

he will probably stay on the T20 circuit as long as he can and let's hope he can play an integral role in the upcoming T20 world cup.

 

[StFly]

a bridge to far and just couldn't make it to the world cup 2027.

integral part of the 2015 & 2023 winning world cup squads.

will never forget his 201* v afghanistan in the 2023 world cup.

he will probably stay on the T20 circuit as long as he can and let's hope he can play an integral role in the upcoming T20 world cup.

So you would say...

The no show?

But yes, he will forever be remembered for cramping up horribly and making everyone look stupid all at the same time.

 

[Moonwatcher]

His bowling might be missed more than his batting.

 

[Del125763]

His batting for large parts of the IPL and BBL got found out a bit in recent seasons. Yes he did play the occassional good innings chucked in there but there were alot more failures than successes in his last 2 years in franchise cricket.

Still should be good enough to retain his national T20 spot but there is a reason why Australia have struggled in the past 2 T20 World Cups. Maybe the selectors might look to new faces to reinvigorate that middle to low order.

There are vast opportunities in T20 circuit so we won't be hearing the last of him. With Steve Smith, Warner and Maxwell all departing within a short time frame , the future (in ODI) probably lies with the next gen thinking: Cam Green, Sam Konstas and maybe a Fraser McGurk/ Harry Dixon/ Aaron Hardie or someone from the leading runscorers in Marsh Cup last season: Mackenzie Harvey, Renshaw or GIlkes.

Id like to see Renshaw given a go again at International level. He would come back a better batsman.

 

[toml]

Id like to see Renshaw given a go again at International level. He would come back a better batsman.

Same, while his red ball batting has never really kicked on he has become a very handy white ball batsman in the last 4 or 5 years, and has done it mostly batting 4/5 which is a spot we seem to struggle to find quality white ball batsman compared to other positions.

 

[Westend]

Onya Maxie great ODI player

 

[Westend]

His bowling might be missed more than his batting.

His all round ODI play batting bowling fielding......when on he was one of the best

 

[revo333]

Just never been the same since he broke his leg.

Hearing about the rehab he has to do just to keep playing, it sounds very mentally draining.

It makes his 200 in the World Cup even more remarkable in hindsight.

 

[Del125763]

ust never been the same since he broke his leg.

Hearing about the rehab he has to do just to keep playing, it sounds very mentally draining.

It makes his 200 in the World Cup even more remarkable in hindsight.

Not sure if Australian cricket will see another Maxwell in our generation. He was unique in a lot of ways.


If this is maybe one regret I feel, Australian fans probably didn't get to see him rep the whites in test cricket. Alot of it wasn't due to his fault, it was just the scheduling cycle.

 

[Gough]

I have said it before and will repeat."Biggest waste of talent I have seen"should have played more test cricket.Selectors focused to much importance on him playing white ball cricket and rarely got the chance to play shield cricket.Similar with T20 and 1 day they focused on him batting in the later overs and the message was need quick runs.People also forget what a brilliant fieldsman he was and his handy spin bowling.

Part of the problem with his bowling was Lyon, if they were to pick a second spinner the selectors look for variation.

 

[Voice of the G]

Part of the problem with his bowling was Lyon, if they were to pick a second spinner the selectors look for variation.

Murphy has the same problem although he had a ordinary shield season 24/25.

 

[Del125763]

I have said it before and will repeat."Biggest waste of talent I have seen"should have played more test cricket.Selectors focused to much importance on him playing white ball cricket and rarely got the chance to play shield cricket.Similar with T20 and 1 day they focused on him batting in the later overs and the message was need quick runs.People also forget what a brilliant fieldsman he was and his handy spin bowling.

He wanted to play test cricket, I think you can blame that on 2 things, the Australian cricketing calendar and 2) the evoltion of these T20 league franchies popping up around the world. From memory, Maxwell has played in BBL, IPL, The Hundred and Im assuming he spent his off season playing cricket in the UK.

And its a future problem for white ball specialists who get picked early, someone like: Fraser-McGurk, Nathan Ellis potentially as well. They may not see very early on their careers time-wise to be working on test cricket.

We slowly so the drift with : Stoinis and Tim David as case examples.

 

[Voice of the G]

He wanted to play test cricket, I think you can blame that on 2 things, the Australian cricketing calendar and 2) the evoltion of these T20 league franchies popping up around the world. From memory, Maxwell has played in BBL, IPL, The Hundred and Im assuming he spent his off season playing cricket in the UK.

And its a future problem for white ball specialists who get picked early, someone like: Fraser-McGurk, Nathan Ellis potentially as well. They may not see very early on their careers time-wise to be working on test cricket.

We slowly so the drift with : Stoinis and Tim David as case examples.

I think Maxwells, non shield selections was more because of Australian white ball cricket selections then BBL,IPL etc.

 

[DIG]

His best batting was unbelievable, on a whole other level the way he could destruct fielding sides no matter where they bowled.

Will miss him from the ODI team, was always fun to watch, and a favourite of mine even when he copped flak thru his less successful times (he could be so frustrating too!)

 

[PhatBoy]

I really liked Maxwell, thought he was a charismatic bloke and never got his fair dues in red ball cricket and was a supreme talent.

But gee I’ve heard some strange takes in the last few days. Watching The Back Page tonight James Hooper tried to claim that he was Australia’s best ever ODI player.

Bit of a stretch.

 

[corbies]

901 runs @ 47.42 with a strike rate of 160.32 in ODI World Cups.

There have been 111 players score 500+ runs in ODI World Cups and the next best strike rate is 120.84 (McCullum).

One of those players where you won't realise how important he is until you don't have him.

 

[Cleavy]

I really liked Maxwell, thought he was a charismatic bloke and never got his fair dues in red ball cricket and was a supreme talent.

But gee I’ve heard some strange takes in the last few days. Watching The Back Page tonight James Hooper tried to claim that he was Australia’s best ever ODI player.

Bit of a stretch.

who is James Hooper?

 

[PhatBoy]

who is James Hooper?

Don’t laugh. An NRL journalist. But for what it’s worth Brad Johnson more or less echoed him.

To me he was a player of what could have been status who just gave enough glimpses of his genius to remind everyone that he was awesome. Like a Shane Watson or someone. Watson’s excellence wasn’t as sporadic as Maxwell’s; he had a relatively condensed period where he was actually consistently excellent, but you get the idea.

Ie. his World Cup record that Corbies posted earlier - well he only passed 50 2 times against ‘proper’ test nations (once against Sri Lanka, once against England) but his cameos were so swift and devastating that they alone were a brief glimpse of what he could do, and his big innings were obviously one of the greatest innings of all time against Afghanistan, a century at a strike rate of better than 200 against the Dutch, and 102 off 53 against Sri Lanka. It was worth the failures for the successes in some cases.

 

[010203]

I really liked Maxwell, thought he was a charismatic bloke and never got his fair dues in red ball cricket and was a supreme talent.

But gee I’ve heard some strange takes in the last few days. Watching The Back Page tonight James Hooper tried to claim that he was Australia’s best ever ODI player.

Bit of a stretch.

Good old cueball, he has a bit of a clue about rugby league and quoting Jack Gibson but like most on The Back Page, he struggles when not discussing his sport of choice.

Maxy was phenomenal but I'd rank him below Dean Jones, Gilly, Davey, Ponting, Andrew Symonds and Shane Warne.

 

[PhatBoy]

Good old cueball, he has a bit of a clue about rugby league and quoting Jack Gibson but like most on The Back Page, he struggles when not discussing his sport of choice.

Maxy was phenomenal but I'd rank him below Dean Jones, Gilly, Davey, Ponting, Andrew Symonds and Shane Warne.

McGrath, Mark Waugh had a fantastic record - averaged a bee’s dick under 40, hit nearly 20 hundreds, passed 50 every 3.5 innings, took nearly 100 wickets, plus his fielding. Martyn’s strike rate probably lets him down just a tad but he had a great record too (averaged over 40 across 180 games) and won a few world cups taking over a sort of Bevan role. Probably wouldn’t put Martyn above Maxy but the others I would.

Lee and Starc’s records are phenomenal too.

Don’t get me wrong I genuinely like him and think he’s one of the most naturally gifted players I’ve seen. This isn’t a Phatboy being anti Aussie thing - I’m comparing him to other Aussies. Just think his downright explosiveness came at the expense of consistency (as it tends to do I guess when you are THAT attacking) which probably cost him

 

[Voice of the G]

901 runs @ 47.42 with a strike rate of 160.32 in ODI World Cups.

There have been 111 players score 500+ runs in ODI World Cups and the next best strike rate is 120.84 (McCullum).

One of those players where you won't realise how important he is until you don't have him.

If Maxwell had batted in the top 4 more often in white ball he could have been even better.Sadly we will never know that because the selectors wanted him batting in the last 10 overs.

 

[Cleavy]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/maddening-and-magnificent-glenn-maxwell-walks-off-into-the-sunset-1488748

this quote sort of sums of Maxwell to a tee:
Maxwell's outstanding chasing record is instructive about his mindset. For all the moments you wondered 'how did he do that', there were just as many thoughts of 'why did he do that' when the game was set up for him.

 

[corbies]

If Maxwell had batted in the top 4 more often in white ball he could have been even better.Sadly we will never know that because the selectors wanted him batting in the last 10 overs.

Why would you want him to? He played an incredibly difficult role at 6 or 7 in ODIs that not many people can play (see Tim David, Marcus Stoinis, Liam Livingstone trying to play it in ODI cricket) and I'd say it's highly unlikely he'd have played a top 4 role better than any the players who played there during his career.

The selectors were absolutely spot on to play him there.

 

[PhatBoy]

Why would you want him to? He played an incredibly difficult role at 6 or 7 in ODIs that not many people can play (see Tim David, Marcus Stoinis, Liam Livingstone trying to play it in ODI cricket) and I'd say it's highly unlikely he'd have played a top 4 role better than any the players who played there during his career.

The selectors were absolutely spot on to play him there.

He did, but I thought they could have batted him at 5 more. His record there was virtually identical without having as many not outs. His strike rate was never impacted. I guess it means you then need to find someone else after him though

 

[magpiemaniac44]

When he was on, was arguably the best player to watch in the world