Last Updated: December 05, 2023, 10:31 IST
Glenn Maxwell has performed seven Tests thus far. (AFP Photo)
Glenn Maxwell final performed a Test in 2017 however is hopeful of taking part in some function within the present WTC cycle for Australia.
Fresh from his world cup exploits, Glenn Maxwell has his eyes set on making his Australia Test comeback as he continues to pursue red-ball dream.
While Maxwell has carved a profitable limited-overs profession profitable a number of world cups throughout codecs, he has managed simply seven Tests thus far and the final of it got here manner again in 2017.
He has scored 339 runs at 26.07 together with a century and together with his offbreaks, has clinched eight wickets as properly.
The 35-year-old admits there aren’t many spots up for grabs within the present Australia Test aspect however feels he supplied a viable possibility on the subject of taking part in within the subcontinent.
“I’m quite understanding the circumstances of the current side. They’re playing some really good cricket, they’re World Test champions,” Maxwell stated 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,” he added.
In the continued ICC World Test Championship cycle (2023-2025), Australia will probably be in Sri Lanka for the Warne-Muralitharan Trophy in 2025 and Maxwell is hopeful he might be half of the tour.
“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,” he stated.
Australia Test stars are gearing up for the upcoming sequence towards Pakistan at residence and the build-up has been dominated by the potential retirement of David Warner.
Mitchell Johnson in an explosive column had questioned why Warner is being given a hero’s send-off regardless of his below-par kind and function within the 2028 ball-tampering scandal.
While a number of present and former Australia stars have since weighed in on the controversy, Maxwell has refused to touch upon it though he did name Warner ‘an absolute champion’.
“I’m not going to throw my name into some headlines about this,” Maxwell stated.
“But Davey’s been an absolute champion of Australian cricket for a long period of time and the selectors were pretty clear on what they thought of it (selecting him). I’m looking forward to seeing Davey in that first Test and him making a lot of runs this summer,” he added.
