Glenn James Maxwell is an Australian professional international cricketer. He currently plays ODI and Twenty20 cricket for Australia. In February 2013, the Indian Premier League team the Mumbai Indians bought him for USD 1 million US. In March 2013, he made his Test debut against India in the second Test at Hyderabad. On 24 November 2017 he scored his maiden double century in the Sheffield Shield competition. In October 2019, he announced an indefinite break from the game to deal with mental health difficulties.
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Glenn James Maxwell is an Australian professional international cricketer, who currently plays ODI and Twenty20 cricket for Australia. He is known for his dramatic shot making and improvisation in the short form of the game. In February 2013, the Indian Premier League team the Mumbai Indians bought him for USD 1 million US. In March 2013, he made his Test debut against India in the second Test at Hyderabad. On 24 November 2017 he scored his maiden double century in the Sheffield Shield competition. On 28 March 2018, Maxwell was urgently recalled to the Test squad, along with Matthew Renshaw and Joe Burns, following the suspensions of Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft for ball tampering. In October 2019, he announced an indefinite break from the game to deal with mental health difficulties. Glenn Maxwell was born in Kew, Victoria, and played his junior cricket for South Belgrave CC. He began his cricket as a pace bowler, before remodelling his run-up and becoming an off spin bowler. Maxwell played in the 2010 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes tournament and was named Player of the Tournament as Australia became champions for the first time. In 2011, he set the record for the fastest ever half-century in Australian domestic one day cricket, scoring 50 runs off 19 balls. He also scored an unbeaten 145* from 65 balls against Sri Lanka in 2016, the fourth highest score in Twenty20 Internationals. He was called into the FDR squad in November when Andrew McDonald was injured.
In January 2013, Maxwell went to England to play for South Wiltshire Second XI and Hampshire Second XI. He then played for Hampshire in the Twenty20 competition in the summer of 2012. In the Young Cricketers’ Cup, he scored 178 runs and a strike rate of 178 at 59.13. He has also played for Victoria and Melbourne Stars in domestic cricket and Lancashire County Cricket Club in English County Cricket. Maxwell made his first-class debut for Victoria against NSW in 2010–11. He took two catches, two wickets and scored 38. He leapt to national attention when he scored a match winning 51 off 19balls in a Ryobi Cup game against Tasmania. He followed this with an excellent Shield game against South Australia, scoring 63 and 103, and taking three catches, and winning the Man of the Match Award. He made 61 and 72 against Western Australia and took two wicket. Maxwell began the 2011–12 season well against Queensland, making 4 and 32 and took three wickets. He scored 65 and 43 against New South Wales. In the Ryobi cup game against Queensland he took 26 and 43 and took 2 wickets against Queensland. He played for the Melbourne Renegades in the BBL in January 2013. In November 2013, Maxwell scored 65 in six innings for the Renegades against South South Africa. In 2014, Maxwell scored 50 off 37 balls in a BBL match against South South Australia.
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