Maxwell often plays his best innings under pressure. As he did once again. Australia won the three-match T20 series 2-1 with 1 ball in hand on the back of his brilliant innings against South Africa. As a result, the Aussies won the three-match T20 series. Australia won the first match of the series by 17 runs and South Africa won the second match by 53 runs.
After losing the toss in Cairns, Australia, on Saturday, South Africa lost 3 wickets after scoring 49 runs. Dewald Brevis, who came out for four, played a great innings and brought the Proteas a good collection. He scored 53 runs in just 26 balls. The famous baby batsman hit six sixes and a four.
Among others, opener Rickleton scored 13 runs off 13 balls, Luhan Pretorius, who came out at three, scored 24 runs off 15 balls and Tristan Stubbs, who came out at five, scored 25 runs off 23 balls. Lower's Reese van der Dussen played an unbeaten innings of 38 runs off 26 balls. Nathan Ellis took three wickets for Australia, while Josh Hazlewood and Adam Zampa took two wickets each.
In the chase, Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh added 66 runs in 8 overs to the opening pair. Head scored 19 runs off 18 balls and Marsh scored 54 runs off 37 balls. Cameron Green scored 9 and Tim David scored 17 runs. Australia were under pressure after losing wickets at regular intervals. From there, Glenn Maxwell won the match for the team.
Maxwell played an unbeaten innings of 62 runs off 36 balls. He took the entire responsibility on his shoulders in the last over and left the field with the team winning. South Africa's Corbin Boch took 3 wickets for 26 runs in 4 overs. Kagiso Rabada took 32 runs in 4 overs and Mapaka took 2 wickets for 36 runs in 3 overs.
