Though the big score has eluded him thus far at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019, Australia batsman Glenn Maxwell said that he feels like he has never hit the ball better.
Maxwell has totalled 143 runs in eight innings at the tournament, but that has largely been down to Australia’s top order doing the heavy lifting. Maxwell has often walked into solid platforms and had to tee away from the get-go. And he hasn’t disappointed on that front, lighting up the tournament with his brief, but destructive cameos. In all, Maxwell’s 143 runs have come off just 75 balls, giving him a strike-rate of 190.66.
“I feel like I haven’t hit the ball better in my career, I just haven’t got runs,” Maxwell said in Manchester, where Australia face South Africa in their final league fixture on Saturday, 6 July. “It’s nice to be relaxed when I go out in the middle. Runs just haven’t come the way I would have liked, but I don’t think they’re far away.”
