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Why Did Australia’s Cricket Hero Retire? 🏏

Glenn Maxwell announced he will stop playing for the Australian national cricket team. 🏏

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Age: 38 years

Retiring from international cricket and top‑level domestic cricket

Career highlights: 3,990 runs in One Day Internationals, 2,897 runs in Twenty20, 128 wickets

Only two players ever scored five centuries in Twenty20 cricket

He hopes to play a few more tournaments before fully stopping

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He played 149 One Day International matches and 130 Twenty20 matches, scoring many runs.

He helped Australia win the One Day World Cup in 2015 and 2023 and the Twenty20 World Cup in 2021.

Now he will focus on staying healthy and playing a few local games.

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retirement

stopping a sports career

international

games played between countries

cricket

a bat‑and‑ball sport played on a field

One Day International

a cricket match that lasts one day

Twenty20

a short cricket match that lasts about three hours

run

a point earned by hitting the ball

World Cup

the biggest tournament for many countries

century

scoring one hundred runs in a single game

wicket

when a bowler gets a batter out

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