Glenn Maxwell has been hailed by Australia's coach as a game-changing talent who can inspire a generation with his brilliance.
Andrew McDonald, left amazed like the rest of cricket by the match-winning double hundred that a hobbling 'Maxi' smashed against Afghanistan on Tuesday, described the allrounder as stretching the possibilities in the batting art, just as Ricky Ponting and South Africa's AB de Villiers did before him.
Suggesting it might take a long time for the true magnitude of Maxwell's unbeaten 128-ball 201 in Mumbai to be properly appreciated, McDonald couldn't help smiling as he related how, back home in Australia, he'd heard players were now imitating the 35-year-old's outrageous inventions.
