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Glenn Maxwell

Glenn James Maxwell is an international cricketer, who plays ODI and Twenty20 cricket for Australia. He has also played Test cricket for Australia. Stuart Alford recalls handing a questionnaire to his players upon taking charge as captain-coach of South Belgrave Cricket Club, in Melbourne's Dandenong Ranges, early last decade. One question called for the boys and men to detail their ambitions for the season ahead.

"He was still in under-14s when I first came to the club," Alford said of a precocious teenager by the name of Glenn Maxwell.

"His first comments to me really stood out – 'I want to play some games in the ones this year'.

"I actually asked who Glenn was because I only had the sheet. This little kid stuck his hand up. I sort of baulked and went, 'You're fairly confident with your own abilities'. He just sat back and smiled at me. He said. 'I had a good year last year'."

"In saying that, he always had the correct attitude, if that makes sense. He was always looking at playing as high as he possibly could and he was ambitious. He probably wasn't quite ready at that time but, four games later, he played his first game in the ones."

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