Maxwell Thomas Bennett Bonnell (born 3 February 1962) is an Australian lawyer and cricket historian.
He was a partner in the Sydney office of the law firm King & Wood Mallesons for 18 years until he joined White & Case in 2017.
[1] Alongside his legal career Bonnell has been a prolific sports historian since he published Currency Lads in 2001, concentrating on Australian cricketers in the period between the mid-19th century and World War II.
He has received the Jack Pollard Trophy, awarded for the best Australian book on cricket each year, three times (most recently for Black Swan Summer in 2023).
[7] He has also written a biography of John Walpole Willis, a 19th-century judge in New South Wales, as well as numerous articles for law journals.