Glenn Maxwell

Glenn James Maxwell (born 14 October 1988) is an Australian professional cricketer.

Maxwell joined the Victorian squad in 2009–10 following an injury to Andrew McDonald in November.

Maxwell made his professional debut in 2010.

He also became the first and only batsman to complete a century in his 100th T20I match.

Maxwell was born in Kew, Victoria, and played junior cricket for South Belgrave Cricket Club.

He initially played as a fast bowler, before moving to bowl off spin.

He made his senior debut for the one-day side in February 2010 and was selected to play for the Australian Institute of Sports in the 2010 Emerging Players Tournament.

He scored 69 against India in the final.

Known for his dramatic shot making and improvisation in short forms of the game, in 2011, he set a new record for the fastest ever half-century in Australian domestic one day cricket, scoring 50 runs from 19 balls.

Maxwell has played domestic Twenty20 cricket in both India and England and has scored centuries in all three international cricket formats, one of only 25 cricketers who have achieved this feat.

Maxwell attracted national attention in February 2011 after scoring a match winning 51 from 19 balls in a Ryobi Cup game against Tasmania, the fastest half-century in Australian domestic one-day history, and made his first-class debut for Victoria against New South Wales later in the month, taking two wickets and scoring 38 runs on debut.

The following month he scored his debut first-class century, making 103 runs against South Australia.

In the 2011 Emerging Players Tournament, Maxwell scored 59 from 23 balls against India and 110 from 52 balls against South Africa.

He has played for the Australia national cricket team in all formats of the game since 2012, although he is primarily a One Day International and Twenty20 International specialist.

Maxwell is an all-rounder who is known for his sometimes unorthodox batting and bowls right arm off-break deliveries.

Domestically he played for Victoria and Melbourne Stars.

In 2012, Maxwell went to England to play club cricket for South Wilts Cricket Club and Second XI cricket for Hampshire before appearing in the T20 Blast for the county.

In the domestic Big Bash League he played for Melbourne Renegades in 2012–13 and has since played for Melbourne Stars.

During the 2021–22 season he scored 154 not out against Hobart Hurricanes, breaking the record for the highest individual score in the league and leading his team to the highest team total in league history.

In India he played for Delhi Daredevils in 2012 before being bought in the 2013 IPL auction by Mumbai Indians, becoming the most expensive purchase at the auction, commanding a price of US$1 million.

Maxwell was selected for Australia's series against Pakistan in the UAE in 2012, with head selector John Inverarity saying that he was "a versatile and lively off-spinning allrounder and brilliant fieldsman" who "will provide another spin bowler option on the slow, low, turning wickets" expected in the country.

He made his debut against Afghanistan in the one-off One Day International (ODI) which took place ahead of the matches against Pakistan, before going on to play in five of Australia's six fixtures against the Pakistanis.

Scores of 38, 28 and 56 not out in the three ODIs on the tour, saw him selected for two of the three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches, scoring four on T20I debut and 27 from 20 balls in the final match of the tour; he also took his first international wicket.

In 2014 he was bought by Kings XI Punjab, making scores of 95, 89, 95 and 90 runs during the season.

In 16 games he had the season's third highest aggregate of runs scored with 552 runs at an average of 34.50 runs per innings and was retained by the side for the following two seasons.

He was part of the Australian squads that won the 2015 Cricket World Cup, the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup, and the 2021 T20 World Cup.

His ability to make unconventional shots like reverse sweeps and pulls often makes it hard to set fields that cover all of his scoring areas.

Maxwell attempted to transfer to New South Wales ahead of the 2016–17 summer but was refused permission and was dropped from the Victorian side for the first match of the Sheffield Shield season.

Maxwell was picked in the next Shield game and scored 81.

Maxwell has played in Twenty20 cricket franchises leagues in Australia, India and England.

In November 2017 he scored his maiden double-century, scoring 278 in the Sheffield Shield and in October 2023 set a new record for the fastest century scored at a Cricket World Cup, reaching his century in 40 balls against the Netherlands.

In November 2023, he also set a new record for the fastest double century scored in a World Cup, becoming just the third person to do so.

He also became the first male batsman to score a double century for Australia in ODIs and scored the winning runs against India in the 2023 Cricket World Cup final.

In the same month just after the World Cup, he equaled Rohit Sharma's world record for having scored the most number of centuries in T20I cricket when he slammed his fourth career T20I century against India.

He also became the first batsman in men's T20Is to complete three centuries while chasing.

He returned to play for Delhi ahead of the 2018 season He again had a poor season, scoring 142 runs at an average of 14 and not passing 50 once.

before being the subject of a bidding war between Delhi and Punjab ahead of the 2020 season, eventually being bought by Punjab.

In 2021, he was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore after another bidding war, this time with the Chennai Super Kings, and finished the season as the team's highest scorer, with 513 runs.

He was retained by the side for the 2022 season.

In England, Maxwell has played for Hampshire, Surrey, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Warwickshire County Cricket Clubs in the T20 Blast and for London Spirit in the 2022 season of The Hundred.