Victorian Glenn Maxwell has officially announced his retirement from one-day cricket at 36 years old.
Maxwell has played in 149 ODI matches since his debut in 2012 and has managed two World Cup victories during his tenure. He will also depart the format having scored four centuries and a miraculous double century against Afghanistan.
Maxwell will continue to be available for both Test cricket and T20 cricket, although making a Test appearance at this stage in his career is very unlikely.
The next major international tournament will be the T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka next year, where he will remain available for selection. Maxwell says his body just can't handle the pressures of 50-over matches anymore.
"My decision to retire from one-day international cricket was probably more so on the back of the first couple of games in the Champions Trophy," he said.
"I felt like I gave myself a really good opportunity to be fit and ready for those games.
"The first game in Lahore, we played on a rock-hard outfit. Post that game, I was pretty sore … the following game against Afghanistan, we fielded for 50 overs on a really, really wet outfit. It was slippery (and) soft, I just didn't pull up that well.
"I started to think about (how) if I don't have the perfect conditions in 50-over cricket, my body probably struggles to get through that. It's a tiring affair just to get through the basics … almost surviving the 50 overs, let alone being at my best for the 50 overs.
"I felt like I was sort of letting the team down a little bit with how my body was reacting to the conditions."
Maxwell will go down as one of Australia's greatest ever ODI cricketers, and his 200-run haul against Afghanistan in the 2023 ODI World Cup will live on in cricketing folklore.
Over the course of his career, Maxwell tallied up a total of 3,990 runs at an average of 33.81 and 77 wickets to go along with that.
