Glenn Maxwell

The arrival

Glenn Maxwell's first IPL season was 2012, with Delhi Daredevils, a signing made outside the auction. That debut came after going unsold once (2011).

That first season brought 2 matches, 6 runs and 1 wicket. The best was still to come.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2014, for Kings XI Punjab: 552 runs at an average of 34.5, striking at 187.8 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 129.1, with 4 fifties, and a highest score of 95. There were three seasons of 400 runs or more in all (2014, 2021 and 2023).

With the ball, the best season was 2017, for Kings XI Punjab: 7 wickets at 6.58 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 8.23, with best figures of 2 for 15.

Franchise by franchise

2012, Delhi Daredevils. 2 matches, 6 runs and 1 wicket.

2013, Mumbai Indians. Bought at the 2013 auction for ₹5.40 cr. 3 matches and 36 runs; champions in 2013.

2014 to 2017, Kings XI Punjab. Bought at the 2014 auction for ₹6 cr. 52 matches, 1,187 runs and 10 wickets.

2018, Delhi Daredevils, second time round. Bought at the 2018 auction for ₹9 cr. 12 matches, 169 runs and 5 wickets.

2020, Kings XI Punjab, second time round. Bought at the 2020 auction for ₹10.75 cr. 13 matches, 108 runs and 3 wickets.

2021 to 2024, Royal Challengers Bangalore. Bought at the 2021 auction for ₹14.25 cr. 52 matches, 1,266 runs and 18 wickets.

2025, Punjab Kings, second time round. Bought at the 2025 auction for ₹4.20 cr. 7 matches, 48 runs and 4 wickets.

7 spells with four franchises in all. The longest was with Kings XI Punjab, 2014 to 2017. 2019 is missing from the record: a season without an IPL appearance.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, Glenn Maxwell struck at 155.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 133.3, so Glenn Maxwell scored about 22 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 68% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 238 fours and 161 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 35.6% of the balls Glenn Maxwell faced were dot balls, a lower share than 54% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 11.3 balls, the 18th-best rate in that group, and a four every 7.6.

With the ball, 41 wickets in 1,022 deliveries, at 8.30 runs an over against a league rate of 8.42 for the same seasons, right on the going rate.

32.1% of the balls Glenn Maxwell bowled were dots, a lower share than 79% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 24.9 balls.

The fielding record: 52 catches and 7 run-outs.

At the auction

Glenn Maxwell went under the hammer seven times, bought six times and left unsold once. The highest price was ₹14.25 cr, paid by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2021, more than 7 times the base price. Unsold in 2011, Glenn Maxwell was bought in 2013 by Mumbai Indians.

Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.

The legacy

Glenn Maxwell made 141 IPL appearances, the last for Punjab Kings in 2025, and won 9 player-of-the-match awards.