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| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA webdesk |Updated: Sep 19, 2017, 12:41 PM IST
Cricket Australia has posted a video featuring Glenn Maxwell while he was recording his movements to capture his shots and skill set for a new cricket game. The video shows him not only displaying his large variety of shots but also imitating many other cricketers.
Cricket Australia is coming up with a fully fledged Ashes cricket game in association with gaming studio Big Ant. The game which will be released in November will consist of both the men's and women's Australian cricket teams.
In order to capture the appearance and playing style of each cricketer, the movements of each cricketer were captured with a complex recording process.
Cricket Australia have released the video of Maxwell's motion capture recording. The video begins with Maxwell displaying some of his shots including the cover drive, hook, pull, and his famous reverse sweep as well.
Then Maxwell decides to imitate a few of his teammates for the camera.
He started off by imitating the 26 year old Peter Handscomb who has a unique batting style. Maxwell then moved on to his captain Steve Smith, who is quite fidgety and likes to move around in the crease. He imitated Smith's defense and his famous pull shot as well. He also imitated Smith's 'leave' making everybody in the studio laugh.
He was then asked to imitate a lot of world stars including Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sanath Jayasuriya, Brian Lara, Virender Sehwag, and Ravindra Jadeja.
He mimicked all their famous shots - Dilshan's 'Dilscoop', Jayasuriya's flick over point, Lara's pull shot, Sehwag's cover drive, and Jadeja's famous sword celebration which the Indian star does after scoring a half-century or century.
He, however, could not perfect Jadeja’s celebration. Maxwell tried to imitate sword celebration with the bat, but ended up dropping the bat and the whole crew started laughing. An embarrassed Maxwell just smiled.
He also went on to imitate the former Australian opening batting pair of Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer as well.
