Glenn Maxwell calls time on international cricket career
MELBOURNE, Australia — Glenn Maxwell announced his retirement from international cricket on Tuesday, saying the decision was "a little bit sad and a little bit inevitable" after being overlooked for Australia's upcoming Twenty20 series against England.
The 38-year-old explosive batsman, who had not played a Test match since 2017, had previously retired from one-day international cricket but kept the door open for T20 selection. Selectors bypassed him for the series against Bangladesh in June and the England series, preferring younger players.
Maxwell played 130 T20 Internationals, scoring 2,897 runs at a strike rate of 154.42, making him Australia's third-highest run-scorer in the format after David Warner and Aaron Finch. He also featured in 149 One Day Internationals, accumulating 3,990 runs.
Maxwell called time on his first-class career with Victoria but will continue playing for the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League.
"If you had offered me that career when I first walked into the Victoria change rooms in 2009-ish, I would have bitten your hand off," Maxwell said.
Maxwell's retirement concludes a career that began in 2009 and established him as one of Australia's most dynamic limited-overs players.
"There wasn't any pressure from (Australia team management), and we decided to sort of leave the door open," Maxwell said of talks with selectors. "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."
