It was a stellar bowling effort by RCB, particularly Harshal Patel, to limit five-time winners MI to simply 159 in the opening encounter of the IPL 2021. The all-rounder returned with figures of 5/26 in his 4 overs and managed to select his first fifer in the match. With this, he is the present holder of the purple cap in the match. Next on the checklist is Jasprit Bumrah with two wickets.
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Maxwell had did not hit a six in the entire of final season. He confronted 106 deliveries throughout 13 matches however couldn’t ship a single shot over the boundary for a six. He hit simply 9 fours and aggregated simply 108 runs at a strike charge of 101.88 and a mean of 15.42.
No surprise, Punjab Kings launched him forward of this season’s IPL mini-auction. However, RCB picked him up for a whopping Rs 14.25 crore with skipper Virat Kohli displaying immense religion in the Aussie.
“He’s a good guy, we’ve caught up in the past as well when I was in Australia on a tour. He’s just very happy to be in RCB and I see a different energy about him this time,” Kohli mentioned in a video uploaded by the franchise on its Youtube web page.
“We wanted Maxi, specifically targeted him at the auction in February. You obviously feel great when things end up happening to where you thought they would,” Kohli mentioned.
And Maxwell, pushed up the order to bat at No. 4, responded with a pleasant cameo, hitting two sixes and three fours.
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