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Surprised Glenn Maxwell determined to return

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Published : Aug 1, 2016, 6:23 am IST
Updated : Aug 1, 2016, 6:23 am IST

Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell is determined to prove that he deserves a place in Australia’s ODI squad after being axed for Sri Lanka tour.

Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell is determined to prove that he deserves a place in Australia’s ODI squad after being axed for Sri Lanka tour.

Speaking with cricket.com.au, Maxwell said his omission from Australia’s ODI squad for the upcoming five-match series in Sri Lanka did come as a surprise, but pledged he would “do whatever it takes” to regain his place.

The 27-year-old stressed that his commitment to the cause has never waned, however the seemingly never-ending run of cricket over the past nine months had gotten the better of him. “I’ve never questioned my commitment to my country and trying to do as well as I possibly can, I think just going from tournament to tournament to tournament, and playing so much cricket, all you’re thinking about is game day,” he explained to cricket.com.au.

“You’re probably not concentrating so much on training days or gym days or recovery days, and (instead) just making sure you’re ready for game day.

“I was so much in game-day mentality that I was probably starting to miss those little things — I wasn’t quite as focused on those little things as much as I should’ve been.”

Maxwell, Australia’s reigning ODI Player of the Year after a superb 2015 year that included a spectacular World Cup, also found himself an unfortunate victim of circumstance when he firstly received a phone call from National Selection Panel member Trevor Hohns late last week; with Steve O’Keefe injured in the first Test in Sri Lanka, the all-rounder was naturally hopeful of a call-up.

“It was a strange feeling, knowing that O’Keefe was injured, and when I got the phone call from Trevor, I wasn’t sure if I was going to Sri Lanka to replace him, or coming up here (to Brisbane for the Australia A series).”

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