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Glenn Maxwell Retirement: Glenn Maxwell, a veteran all-rounder for Australian Cricket, announces retirement from ODI format after 13 years of glorious career. Maxwell on Monday, stated that he was retiring from this format after his debut in 2012, where he scored almost 4,000 runs from his 149 ODIs. Known for his middle-order blitz in the middle, Maxwell was finding it difficult to manage his leg-injury after a horrific 2022 accident, as he informed Cricket Australia's Chief Selector about this decision.

"I said to him right then and there, 'I don't think I'm going to make that'," Maxwell told the Final Word podcast about his participation in 2027 ODI World Cup.

"I think it's time to start planning for people in my position, to have a crack at it and try and make that spot their own for the for the 2027 World Cup. Hopefully they get enough of a lead-in where they can have success in that role."

Maxwell decision was finalized well before the finger injury that sidelined him from this year's Indian Premier League. His last ODI appearance was against India in the ICC Champions Trophy earlier this year.

Maxwell's retirement also makes him join the group of Marcus Stoinis and Steve Smith, who also retired from ODIs around the recent Champions Trophy campaign, and David Warner, who previously pulled stumps from the format. This means four members of Australia's 2023 World Cup-winning squad have now stepped away from ODI cricket, leaving the reigning champions with the task of finding new match-winners for their title defense in two years' time.

The all-rounder stated that the physical demands of the 50-over game had become too arduous for him. He will, however, continue to represent Australia in Twenty20 Internationals and has not retired from his first-class career. Maxwell informed Australia's chief selector, George Bailey, during the Champions Trophy in February about his decision, indicating that he didn't believe his body would be able to sustain the demands until the 2027 World Cup.

"My decision to retire from one-day international cricket was probably more on the back of the first couple of games in the Champions Trophy," he said.

"I felt like I gave myself a really good opportunity to be fit and ready for those games. The first game in Lahore, we played on a rock-hard outfield. Post that game I was pretty sore.

"We were lucky enough to have a washout against South Africa, where I had a bit more time to have a bit of rest and get myself ready for the next game.

"The following game against Afghanistan, we fielded for 50 overs on a really, really wet outfield. It was slippery, it was soft, and I just didn't pull up that well.

"I started to (realise) that if I don't have the perfect conditions in 50-over cricket, my body just struggles to get through that.

"It feels like it's a tiring affair just to get through – and almost surviving – the 50 overs, let alone being at my best throughout that 50 overs, and then going out there and trying to perform with the bat as well.

"I felt like I was letting the team down a little bit with how my body was reacting to the conditions."