Depression low to double-ton high, Glenn Maxwell powers Australia victory
Glenn Maxwell looked broken. He was crawling on his knees between overs, gasping in pain, but his spirit remained intact. The Aussie kept swishing his bat around to score an unbeaten 201 to script possibly the greatest ODI knock of all time. It was certainly the greatest innings in a World Cup chase, the one that dealt a heartbreaking blow to Afghanistan.The tournament’s giant-killers had reduced Australia to 91/7 while chasing 292. After beating England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, they had another former World Champion in their stranglehold and only the formality of pulling the trigger remained. But, in a game for the ages, the hunter became the hunted as a limping Maxwell carried his team across the finishing line.
Maxwell’s double hundred was a throwback to Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar’s epi...