Australia’s master blaster said he had not felt like batting on Wednesday night, but once he got going, he had an eye out for a record and duly broke it.
Glenn Maxwell, again the holder of the record for fastest one-day century for Australia, said he felt so ill and unslept before hisat Arun Jaitley stadium on Wednesday that he had not wanted to bat.
“I was sitting in the changing room and I didn’t really want to bat, which is a bit different than last game where I was way too eager to get out there,” he said. “We talked about over-arousal levels and I probably reached double maximum if you couldn’t tell. “Yeah, I reversed a couple of times but that’s only because I had a read on what they were trying to do. I didn’t really try and take a fielder on. I knew if I could play one or two, I’d get a different type of ball. Then I could cash in on that. And I just felt really clear at the back end. I was able to stand quite still. And I felt I hit the ball where it needed to be hit.”Altogether, Maxwell hit nine fours and eight sixes. One was especially memorable, to himself as well as spectators.
Maxwell’s onslaught culminated in the 49th over when he smashed 28 from Bas de Leede’s medium pacers, including three successive sixes, the last delivering him to his century.“I think if you can put pressure on a certain bowler and get a hold of them a couple of times in a row, you can produce mistakes,” he said.“I felt that was what I did in the 49th over. I was able to put pressure on his good balls to get bad balls, where I could actually hit for sixes.
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