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Follow UsGlenn Maxwell’s hopes of making a comeback into Test cricket with Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka 2025 have been jeopardised by the latest bout of injury. The all-rounder has been ruled out for at least a month with a hamstring injury he picked during the last T20I against Pakistan in Hobart.
Due to this, he will not be able to take part in either of Victoria’s two Sheffield Shield matches against Queensland. This would hamper his chances of showing it to the selectors that he is more than capable of playing red-ball cricket.
Maxwell, who last played Test cricket in 2017, narrowly missed out on a game during Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka in 2022, had said that he has yet not given up on the Test dream that his youngerself had envisioned.
"I think if I gave up on that Test dream now, I don't think I'd be doing justice to that younger Glenn Maxwell who was dying to put on the baggy green when he was a kid. I think while there's still a glimmer of hope, I'll keep going for it,” ESPN cricinfo quoted the Big Show as saying earlier this month.
However, Aaron Finch, former Australia captain thinks that it won't matter if Maxwell plays in the Shield or not. The reasoning behind it according to Finch is Maxwell’s skillset.
"The very little red-ball cricket Maxi's played over the last probably five years, if they want to pick him, they'll pick him regardless, and it's not about if he goes and gets runs in Shield cricket.
I don't think that comes into it at all because it's the skillset he has got - he's very good against spin, he's very versatile, [and] his off-spin is better than part-time,” Finch told ESPN cricinfo.
The first match against Sri Lanka starts on January 29. But Maxwell might miss the Big Bash League matches as well.
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