Glenn Maxwell’s miserable t20 run reached a new low today.
The former Hampshire big-hitter was out first ball playing for Melbourne Stars in a KFC Big Bash clash against the Brislabe Heat.
Maxwell was clean bowled when he amazingly shouldered arms to a Ryan Duffield delivery that clattered into his stumps.
Aussie Test great Adam Gilchrist, commentating on the game for TV, called it the “most extraordinary dismissal I’ve ever seen in the game.”
Maxwell has now scored just 310 runs at an average of 11.07 and a strike rate of 127.00 in his last 28 t20 games for the Stars, Kings XI Punjab, Hampshire and Australia.
Playing for Hampshire in last summer’s t20 competition, he arrived with big expectations but only scored 127 runs in 11 innings with a top score of just 30 and an average of 11.54.
That contrasts sharply with the 813 runs he scored in the preceding 23 Twenty20 matches in 2014 at an average of 40.65 and a massive strike rate of 194.50.
Melbourne lost to Brisbane by just one run.
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