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All-round ace: Glenn Maxwell has set his sights on playing white and red-ball cricket with Lancashire this summer

Glenn Maxwell is being interviewed on the Lord’s balcony. It is Sunday evening and he has just taken a career-best 5-40 to steer Lancashire to an impressive seven-wicket victory over Middlesex. A few feet away, on the away dressing-room balcony, a couple of his team-mates have celebratory beers in their hands and they disrup...