When it rains, it pours. The adage holds true for Glenn Maxwell who’s on a run-making spree on this version of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2021) after lower than common performances with the bat over the previous couple of years.
The Aussie scored his first IPL half-century on Wednesday (April 14) after three barren seasons and it got here towards Sunrisers Hyderabad. This comes after he broke his drought of sixes, hitting two in his knock of 39 towards Mumbai Indians on Friday, after he had gone with out a most hit within the 2020 season.
Maxwell, who aggregated simply 108 in 13 matches at a mean of simply over 15 in IPL 2020 and was due to this fact launched by the Punjab franchise, has been relishing the No. 4 batting slot this season for his new workforce Royal Challengers Bangalore.
In the primary match, his 39 performed a key function in serving to RCB win. In his second match of the season, Maxwell top-scored for RCB with 59 off 41 balls. While he hit two sixes within the match opener towards Mumbai Indians, he hit three sixes on Wednesday evening.
Just the BIG SHOW we would have liked.
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— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) April 14, 2021
The final time Maxwell hit a half-century was again in 2016. Since then, his highest had been 47 every in 2017 and 2018 and 32 in 2020. He did not play the 2019 version.
Maxwell had a day again mentioned on RCB official video that he wasn’t shocked that the Bangalore franchise would decide him regardless of peculiar outing final season. He mentioned RCB skipper Virat Kohli had been exhibiting curiosity in him.
“We had been texting a fair bit. We obviously caught up. We chatted after the ODI and T20I series in Australia. He talked to me about potentially playing for RCB. If I got the opportunity, he said ‘we would love to have you’. But obviously, there was an auction,” Maxwell mentioned in a video tweeted by RCB.
“He said it would be wonderful to have you. He floated the idea back even then. There was a long process in work. Thankfully, I am playing for RCB now,” he added.
Kohli would not be disenchanted along with his catch of the season.
