Glenn Maxwell - Test matches

[Atif]

Was it me or did Maxwell look clueless out in the middle today?

I don't believe he's ready for test matches yet.

What are your views?

 

[Gollum]

Maxwell will turn out to be a right-handed Michael Bevan for Australia. Terrific limited overs player but failure as a Test batsman. And to throw him as a number 3, Bradman, Ponting, Chappell, Maxwell (!?)...

 

[Adil_94]

Maxwell can be a good Test match number 6 or Number 7. But he is too much of a hack to bat in the top 5 of the Test team. The Aussies tried to put the pressure back on Pak by having another aggresive bat. But when that bat can just last 50-60 balls its not really a great decision in hindsight.

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

The way he goes about batting he looks more like the Australian variant of Shahid Afridi to me, but yes if they want to utilize him then he should bat at 6. The position will suit his game and not to forget that he plays spin better than the most Australians. He'll get his side useful quick runs before the new ball is taken.

 

[Jabo]

He was never right for a test match especially at 3

but they didn't have anyone else, Phil Hughes should have came in for Doolan and Maxwell should have only came in if they wanted to replace Marsh

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

He was never right for a test match especially at 3

but they didn't have anyone else, Phil Hughes should have came in for Doolan and Maxwell should have only came in if they wanted to replace Marsh

I thought Steve Smith would have been a good option for the number 3 spot. If I remember correctly then he played there against England and did well.

 

[Savak]

He should model himself and play the Andrew Symonds role.

 

[ares1000]

Bring back Khawaja.

 

[Convict]

Career killer

 

[Varun]

‘Still got some really good cricket in me’ – Glenn Maxwell

Glenn Maxwell may have been omitted from the Australia squad to face Pakistan in the upcoming Test series, but he believes he’s “still got some really good cricket years ahead”.

Australia named a 15-man squad on Tuesday, 11 September, for the two-Test series in the United Arab Emirates, including five uncapped players.

With Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft serving bans, there is a dearth of senior batsmen in Australia, something which was expected to work in Maxwell’s favour as far as selection was concerned.

However, the selectors left him out, suggesting he needed to score big hundreds in first-class cricket. "(Trevor Hohns, the chairman of selectors, explained) the fact that my numbers at Test level don't stand up over the last few years when I've been included," Maxwell told SEN Radio.

“Now I just need to make more runs. Hopefully I can pile on enough runs this summer to keep pushing my case forward. I had a pretty good year last year, so now I've just got to have another good year this year and hope selections go my way at some stage.”

Maxwell didn’t play any cricket in the lead-up to the squads being announced as he was under the impression Cricket Australia wanted him to rest ahead of Australia A’s tour of India, and then ahead of the Tests against Pakistan.

Eventually, it seemed to count against him. “I suppose the disappointment from my side is I didn't get an opportunity to play any cricket over the last couple of months," he said.

“I had a few offers to play county cricket in England and they were initially knocked back with an opportunity to go and play in India in the A series. To get told not to play in the A series and have a rest, and I was understanding of that and their reasoning behind that ... I was hoping that was a positive note to go to Dubai (to play Pakistan). But obviously that wasn't the case.”

Despite all that, Maxwell remained positive on his chances of playing, and impressing, in Tests in future. “I feel like I've still got some really good cricket years ahead of me,” he said. “If I continue to play the way I have been in the last 12 months, the selections will eventually go my way. I feel like I'm getting better and better. Hopefully this is another year where I can prove people wrong and put a lot of runs on the board.”

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/847769

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Maxwell eyes off shock red-ball return for World Test Championship series​

Limited overs specialist Glenn Maxwell has not given up hope of making a return to Test cricket and is eyeing off an away series on the sub-continent at the end of the current ICC World Test Championship cycle as his best opportunity to do so.

Maxwell has played just seven Tests for his country, with every one of those red-ball contests coming outside Australia and his most recent appearance more than six years ago.

that time Maxwell played a major role in helping Australia claim their inaugural ICC Men's T20 World Cup title in Dubai in 2021 and then starred once again during the Aussies' recent successful ICC Men's Cricket World Cup campaign in India.

While Maxwell knows he is better suited to the limited-overs format of the game, the 35-year-old still feels he can make an impact at Test level and wants to continue to put his name forward for selection ahead of Australia's final series of the current World Test Championship cycle.

Australia are scheduled to travel to Sri Lanka at the start of 2025 to battle it out for the Warne-Muralitharan Trophy in what looms as a crucial series in the run into the World Test Championship final later that year and Maxwell harbours aspirations to be involved.

“I'm quite understanding the circumstances of the current side. They're playing some really good cricket, they’re World Test champions," Maxwell said on Australian radio station SEN on Tuesday.

“There's not a lot of spots up for grabs as far as Tests at home, but I know that when it does come to a sub-continent tour I can be a real viable option to hopefully fill a role in that side.

“I don't think there's another sub-continent tour until early 2025. So, I'll keep trying to plug away and hopefully get an opportunity at that stage."

Source: ICC