Jim Maxwell is the most experienced cricket commentator on ABC Radio as well as one of Australia’s most versatile sports broadcasters.
In a career with the national broadcaster spanning more than three decades, Jim Maxwell has covered 233 Tests, including seven tours to the West Indies and three to India and Pakistan, five World Cups and numerous Ashes series.
He has also edited the ABC Cricket Magazine, Australia’s longest running cricket publication, since 1988.
His knowledge of sport is legendary and his commentary experiences, both on radio and television, vast.
From 1996 until 2008, he called the Saturday Club Rugby Union matches on ABC TV and has variously turned his hand to television commentary on rugby league, golf, show-jumping, cricket and table tennis.
On radio, Jim has covered hockey at three Olympic Games, and from 1981 to 1990 he was the main rugby league commentator alongside one of the original Immortals, former champion centre Reg Gasnier.
Jim Maxwell has written three cricket books, The First Sixty Years (a history of the ABC cricket book), Stumps (an anecdotal account of his experiences following the successful Australian team) and The Ashes, from Bodyline to Waugh.
And he has produced an assembly line of ABC audio cassettes, from a series of Cricket Flashbacks, through to a History of Australia West Indies Cricket, Classic Sports Interviews and various Great Days In Test Cricket.
Currently his golf handicap is 11, and like many post-adolescent sportsmen, Jim Maxwell’s worst fear is that he has played his best golf.