Melbourne, Sept. 4 -- Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell named former Australian cricketer Brad Hodge as an 'underrated' cricketer, admitting that he had "posters of him on his wall" growing up and that, had he been born in some other era, he would have played more Test cricket for Australia.

Maxwell was speaking on the 'Keeping it Cricket' podcast. Hodge, despite being one of the finest red-ball cricketers of his era, could play just six Tests, scoring a double hundred. He could not make it to the team in an era of a stacked line-up of Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden etc.

Speaking on the podcast about some of the most 'underrated' players, Hodge, a fellow Victorian crickete...