Cricketing greats are saying Glenn Maxwell’s stunning 201 against Afghanistan is the greatest One Day International innings of all time.
“The greatest ODI knock of all time, without any doubt,” said former England skipper Michael Vaughan on the BBC.
It’s hard to disagree.
“I’ve never seen anything like that. Australia had no right at all to win that game,” Vaughan added.
Indian great Sachin Tendulkar crowned it “the best ODI knock I’ve seen in my life,” one of numerous greats that have hailed it as such.
Aside from leading Australia to an incredible victory, that Maxwell roused himself, Tyson Fury-like off the canvas to do it after suffering cramps mid-way through the innings, only adds to the mystique.
The plain numbers of Maxwell’s knock are absolutely bonkers.
Scoring 201 runs from just 128 balls, with 21 fours and 10 sixes, Maxwell’s innings was the 11th ODI double-century scored by a man in history, and 13th overall.
For context, the match was the 4,696th men’s ODI ever played, which, in theory at least, accounts for over 100,000 possible individual knocks.
Incredibly, Maxwell’s is the only double-century to be scored in the second innings of a match.
It is also the only double-century ever scored in ODI cricket that was not compiled by an opening batter.
It’s the highest-ever score by an Australian man in ODI cricket, second only to Belinda Clark‘s unbeaten 229 against the Netherlands at the 1997 Women’s Cricket World Cup — which coincidentally also took place in Mumbai, although not at the Wankhede stadium.
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