Having gone through a rough patch with the bat in recent times, Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell was happy to put up an all-round show in his team's dominating performance against England in the tri-nation cricket tournament final, here on Sunday. Maxwell scored 95 in Australia's total of 278 and then took four wickets with his off-breaks.
"My batting has let me down a fair bit. I thought I have been bowling pretty well in the last 12 months. It was nice to put in a good all-round performance. I thought the whole team was pretty much outstanding. After the little collapse at the start, from then on, we really dominated the game all the way through," Maxwell said.
Maxwell admitted that a bit of luck at the start of the innings is always helpful after a collapse led the home team to being reduced to 60 for four. "I think when you have those situations, when you get out early you think all the bad luck you had. I think the last two times that I have had the opportunities early at the WACA, I chopped on both occasions really early for a duck. You sort of think about that, if you just get past that a little bit of bad luck. "I had a couple of chop-ons that went close to stumps. They miss the stumps and all of sudden, you are away. So it's a little of luck in the game, I felt it was with me today." Maxwell said.