{"id":298588,"date":"2023-11-08T08:23:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T08:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=298588"},"modified":"2023-11-08T08:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T08:23:56","slug":"how-cricket-legends-have-raved-about-glenn-maxwells-double-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/%d1%81ricket\/how-cricket-legends-have-raved-about-glenn-maxwells-double-century\/","title":{"rendered":"How cricket legends have raved about Glenn Maxwell&apos;s double century"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>See how cricket legends from Sachin Tendulkar to Ricky Ponting have raved about Glenn Maxwell&#8217;s unbelievable World Cup double century<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aussie rescued World Cup game vs Afghanistan with 201 not out\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Skipper Pat Cummins hailed it as the greatest ODI knock ever\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Several of the biggest names in the sport agree with him\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sachin Tendulkar has labelled Glenn Maxwell&#8217;s innings against Afghanistan the best he&#8217;s seen in one-day international cricket, headlining a long list of praise for Australia&#8217;s explosive allrounder.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell&#8217;s unbeaten 201 from 128 balls has been widely endorsed as one of the greatest white-ball knocks of all time and helped Australia wrap up a World Cup semi-final spot.<\/p>\n<p>After watching his side slump to 7-91 from the non-striker&#8217;s end, a clearly cramped-up Maxwell took charge in a 202-run, eighth-wicket partnership with Pat Cummins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/04\/77538619-12723491-image-a-46_1699418458793.jpg\" height=\"429\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Maxwell&#8217;s stunning knock came despite the batter suffering cramps so severe he could hardly walk &#8211; prompting high praise from some of the biggest names in cricket history<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/04\/77539709-12723491-image-a-47_1699418566995.jpg\" height=\"278\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s &#8216;Little Master&#8217;, Sachin Tendulkar, branded the ODI innings the best he&#8217;s ever seen\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell&#8217;s innings included 21 fours and 10 sixes, often dispatching the ball despite limited movement in his legs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;From Max pressure to Max performance! This has been the best ODI knock I&#8217;ve seen in my life,&#8217; Tendulkar tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian batting legend was far from alone in his praise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve watched and played a lot of cricket, and I have seen nothing like that,&#8217; former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting said in commentary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Unbelievable scenes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He was done, down and out. He couldn&#8217;t move. His whole body had cramped up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He stayed out there because he knew he had to get his team across the line, and he&#8217;s done it. Unbelievable effort.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/04\/77538623-12723491-image-a-48_1699418603241.jpg\" height=\"838\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Maxwell was coming back from a concussion he suffered in a freak golf cart accident when he saved the day against Afghanistan in Mumbai<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/04\/77539711-12723491-image-a-49_1699418608905.jpg\" height=\"173\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Aussie cricket great Adam Gilchrist didn&#8217;t hold back as he raved about the innings<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/04\/77538637-12723491-image-a-50_1699418612592.jpg\" height=\"398\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Former skipper Ricky Ponting (pictured before the match against Afghanistan) said he&#8217;d never seen anything like the knock in all his years of playing and watching cricket<\/p>\n<p>Adam Gilchrist, long regarded as one of Australia&#8217;s greatest white-ball batsmen, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Clearly the best ODI innings ever,&#8217; Gilchrist tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Has always been the most exciting player in the world to watch in my opinion.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Former international stars Michael Vaughan, Virender Sehwag and Wasim Akram were among others to class Maxwell&#8217;s Mumbai miracle among the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Former India allrounder and coach Ravi Shastri compared Maxwell&#8217;s knock to that of Kapil Dev against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Dev&#8217;s match-saving 175 helped India recover from 5-17 to 8-266.<\/p>\n<p>Cummins, who had arguably the best view of the innings from the non-striker&#8217;s end, was definitive in his praise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s the best I&#8217;ve ever seen, probably the greatest ODI innings ever,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re just chatting about it, all the players, and we&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s one of those days where you just go, &#8216;I was there in the stadium the day Glenn Maxwell chased down that total by himself&#8217;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12723491\/Glenn-Maxwell-double-century-Afghanistan-World-Cup-Ponting-Tendulkar-Gilchrist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See how cricket legends from Sachin Tendulkar to Ricky Ponting have raved about Glenn Maxwell&#8217;s unbelievable World Cup double century <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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