Melbourne: Glenn Maxwell called time on his international career on Tuesday, closing a 14-year run that produced three World Cup medals, 10 centuries and one innings in Mumbai that no one who saw it has forgotten.
The 38-year-old played 7 Tests, 149 one-day internationals and 130 T20 internationals for Australia, scoring 10 international centuries and taking 136 wickets. He had already retired from ODI cricket in 2025; the announcement ends his T20I career and his first-class and List A commitments as well.
The honours list is short and heavy: the 2015 and 2023 ODI World Cups and the 2021 T20 World Cup. In the 2023 final in Ahmedabad, Australia's chase was in trouble before his innings steadied it. But the knock that defined him came earlier in that tournament, an unbeaten double century against Afghanistan in Mumbai, made while cramping so badly that he could barely run, which rescued a game Australia had no business winning.
That was Maxwell in one innings: a batter who could look technically undone for an hour and then take a match away in twenty minutes, and a part-time off-spinner good enough to be used in every phase.
He will continue to play T20 franchise cricket, including for Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League, which keeps him in front of Australian crowds in a format built for exactly what he does.
For Australia, the question now is the middle order in white-ball cricket and the all-rounder's slot in Test squads on the subcontinent, where his off-spin once gave selectors a second spinner without weakening the batting.
His retirement lands in a week when Australian cricket has been reworking its white-ball plans, and it removes a player who had been in and out of squads on fitness rather than form. The 2027 ODI World Cup, which Australia will defend, will be played without him.
Maxwell's numbers will be read two ways: modest as a Test record, exceptional as a white-ball one. The 149 ODIs and 130 T20Is are where the career actually lived.