Glenn Maxwell reveals the best bowler he has faced

The 36-year-old star Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell is a nightmare for every bowler. Recently, the right-handed batter revealed the name of the best bowler he faced. 

In limited-overs cricket, Glenn Maxwell is one of the greatest middle-order batters. Players with 100 ODIs, Maxwell records the highest batting strike rate (126.82). Similarly, he is also on top of the list of players with the highest T20I strike rate after playing 100 T20Is (154.76).

Maxwell has played 447 T20s, where the right-handed batter has a strike rate of 153.66, the second-best strike rate in the list of at least 400 T20s. 

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Glenn Maxwell named Jasprit Bumrah

Recently, in a video shared by ESPNcricinfo, Maxwell revealed that the Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah would be the best bowler he faced. The Aussie cricketer believes that Bumrah can be the best all-format bowler of all time. 

Maxwell said, “I think the best bowler I would have faced would probably be Bumrah. I think he’s probably going to go down as the best all-format bowler of all time. His release point, because he releases it from so far out in front of himself, almost feels like he can change where he’s bowling right at the last moment.

“Unbelievable slow ball, great yorker, has the ability to swing it both ways; he’s got a brilliant wrist, and he’s got a good sniff. It feels like he’s got all the tricks of a really good fast bowler.”

Maxwell's performances against Bumrah

While Maxwell has the dominating strike rates in the ODIs and T20 cricket, his record against Bumrah isn’t the same. Maxwell’s ODI strike rate against Bumrah is 101.4, where the right-handed batter has scored 70 runs off 69 balls and has been dismissed twice. 

In the T20 format, Bumrah dismissed Maxwell seven times, including twice in the T20 international. The right-handed batter has scored 75 runs off 65 balls in T20 cricket with a strike rate of 115.4.

In his entire career, Maxwell has hit only two sixes against Bumrah, once in an ODI and the other one in a T20I match. 

The record clearly shows Bumrah’s dominance against Maxwell in every format.