Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell introduced his retirement from ODI cricket on Monday, calling time on an illustrious 13-year profession for the nationwide facet within the 50-over format.
The 36-year-old Maxwell stated he had made up his thoughts to retire from the format throughout Australia’s Champions Trophy 2025 marketing campaign that finally ended with a semi-final exit following a loss to India in Dubai.
Maxwell, who first performed for Australia in worldwide cricket in an ODI in 2012, was a part of the World Cup-winning groups in 2015 and 2023. Maxwell revealed that he had a chat with Australia’s choice committee chair and former teammate George Bailey through the Champions Trophy about his resolution.
Maxwell, who endured a torrid time within the ongoing IPL 2025 season with the Punjab Kings earlier than being dominated out with an damage, stated that he believed he let the workforce down in his middle-order function through the 50-overs event in Pakistan and the UAE.
“I stated to him (Bailey) proper then and there, ‘I don’t suppose I’m going to make that’,” the two-time ODI World Cup winner advised the Remaining Phrase podcast.
“I feel it’s time to start out planning for folks in my place, to have a crack at it and attempt to make that spot their very own for the for the 2027 World Cup. Hopefully, they get sufficient of a lead-in the place they will have success in that function.”
“My resolution to retire from one-day worldwide cricket was in all probability extra on the again of the primary couple of video games within the Champions Trophy,” he stated.
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Maxwell joins Marcus Stoinis and Steve Smith in saying their retirements from ODIs after his compatriots stepped down on both facet of the Champions Trophy. Nonetheless, Maxwell will stay out there for choice in T20s.
“I felt like I gave myself a very good alternative to be match and prepared for these video games. The primary sport in Lahore, we performed on a rock-hard outfield. Submit that sport I used to be fairly sore.
“We had been fortunate sufficient to have a washout in opposition to South Africa, the place I had a bit extra time to have a little bit of relaxation and get myself prepared for the subsequent sport.
“I began to (realise) that if I don’t have the right circumstances in 50-over cricket, my physique simply struggles to get by means of that. It feels prefer it’s a tiring affair simply to get by means of – and nearly surviving – the 50 overs, not to mention being at my finest all through that fifty overs, after which going on the market and attempting to carry out with the bat as nicely.
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“I felt like I used to be letting the workforce down somewhat bit with how my physique was reacting to the circumstances,” Maxwell revealed.
Maxwell steps away from the format because the batter with the best strike fee amongst all ODI gamers to have recorded no less than 2000 runs, holding a shocking 126.70 strike fee in his profession.
Maxwell’s mercurial feats had been finest exemplified by his jaw-dropping 201 not out in opposition to Afghanistan on the 2023 World Cup battling cramps.
“This was a second, like Steve Waugh’s Ashes ton on the final ball of the day, or Michael Bevan’s last 4 to beat the Windies. A type of occasions that makes you ask ‘The place had been you when…’,” Maxwell wrote in his 2024 ebook, The Showman.
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“It was loopy to suppose that I now had considered one of these, a second when Australia was all on board.”