Glenn Maxwell Retires From International Cricket: Career Stats, His Best Days in India and What Comes Next

Glenn Maxwell retires from international cricket at 38. He announced on The Final Word podcast on Monday (2 November) that he is done with T20Is for Australia and is also leaving first-class and List A cricket with Victoria. He will keep playing franchise T20s, starting with the Melbourne Stars in BBL|16, where his contract now runs to the 2027-28 season.

Maxwell had already left ODIs in June 2025. His last game for Australia turns out to be the T20 World Cup match against Oman in February 2026, when he took 2 for 13 from three overs and did not bat. Australia went out in the group stage of that tournament.

Career figures below are from ESPNcricinfo, cricket.com.au and Cricbuzz, as of 3 November 2026.

Glenn Maxwell's international career in numbers

Two numbers stand out. His ODI strike rate of 126.71 is the highest of any batter with more than 2,000 ODI runs, according to ESPNcricinfo. And his five T20I hundreds are a joint world record, shared with India's Rohit Sharma.

He also held 62 catches in T20Is and 91 in ODIs, which only hints at how much his fielding was worth to Australia.

The India connection: his biggest days came here

Maxwell played much of his best cricket in India, and Indian fans will remember most of the highlights first-hand.

• 104 in Ranchi, 2017. His only Test hundred came against India at the JSCA Stadium. He played just seven Tests, the last of them in 2017.
• 40-ball hundred vs Netherlands, Delhi, 2023 World Cup. The fastest century in men's ODI World Cup history and Australia's fastest ODI hundred, beating his own 51-ball effort against Sri Lanka in Sydney at the 2015 World Cup.
• 201 not out vs Afghanistan, Mumbai, 2023 World Cup. Australia were 91 for 7 chasing 292 at the Wankhede. Maxwell, batting at No. 6 and later barely able to move because of cramp, finished the chase on his own. It was the first ODI double hundred by an Australian man, the first by a non-opener and the first in a run chase.
• IPL. He played 141 IPL matches and scored 2,819 runs at a strike rate of 155.15 (Cricbuzz figures), so he was a familiar face for Indian crowds well beyond the international game.

Australia won the 2023 World Cup final against India in Ahmedabad less than two weeks after that Mumbai innings. Maxwell also won the 2015 ODI World Cup and hit the winning runs when Australia won the 2021 T20 World Cup final in Dubai.

Why now, and what he said

Maxwell said the talks with Australia's selectors were open-ended and that there was no pressure on him to go. He had hoped for one last game at his home ground, the MCG, where England play a T20I later this month, but said he understood why the selectors want to look at younger players before the 2028 Olympics, where cricket returns.

In his own words on the podcast, he had "a small hope" of "a send-off game at the MCG", but could "completely understand the direction they're going with this squad". He also said he chose knee treatment and "eight weeks of solid rehab" to be ready for the BBL instead of rushing back for England.

That fits the wider picture. Australia have just rested Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood for the England white-ball series and handed chances to new players; we covered that in Australia's squads for the England ODIs and T20Is.

An all-format rarity

According to Sky Sports, Maxwell is one of only five Australian men to have scored a hundred in all three international formats. The others are Shane Watson, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh and Josh Inglis, whose Newlands hundred we covered in our SA vs AUS 3rd Test day 3 report.

What it means for Australia's T20 side

Without Maxwell, Australia lose a finisher who could also bowl off-spin and was one of the best fielders in the world. The England series in late November is the first chance to see who fills that role. Young hitters and part-time spinners will get the overs Maxwell used to take, which is exactly the plan he described.

For India fans, the main loss is a rivalry. Maxwell's battles with India's spinners and his World Cup innings in Delhi and Mumbai were among the best white-ball cricket played in this country in the last decade.

Where to watch him next

Maxwell will play the BBL for Melbourne Stars this summer. He also led Belfast Wolves to the final of the first European T20 Premier League in September, so the franchise circuit will still see plenty of him.

For more records like this, see India's record 400 T20I sixes in a calendar year, and keep an eye on our stats page.

Sources: ESPNcricinfo, ABC News, Sky Sports, The Guardian/AAP, Cricket Victoria, cricket.com.au and Cricbuzz.