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Trying to be ultra-positive: Special Glenn Maxwell performance gives lifeline to RCB in IPL 2022
India Today
IPL 2022: Glenn Maxwell put up a special performance for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Gujarat Titans to keep their team alive in the race for the playoffs. While the fate of RCB might be in MI's hands, Maxwell's performance on the night was one for the ages.
Royal Challengers Bangalore kept their playoff hopes alive after beating table-toppers Gujarat Titans by a big margin of eight wickets on Thursday night, 19 May. The Faf du Plessis side put in an impressive performance with both bat and ball clinching a must-win game in their final group stage match in the Indian Premier League.
While Virat Kohli was adjudged man of the match for his 54-ball 73 in a tricky batting wicket, his Australian teammate Glenn Maxwell was praised by opposition captain Hardik Pandya.
On the night, Maxwell, bowled a maiden over, took a wicket, scored an 18-ball 40 innings and took a breathtaking catch that dropped the jaw of Shubman Gill.
Speaking after the game, Maxwell said that all of that has come after years of practice and he is just trying to be ultra-aggressive in mindset.
"I didn't want to soak up any time. If I could get those first couple away and try to take the pressure off Virat at the other end, we can keep the momentum going. If I got out first ball, it wouldn't have made a difference but if I soaked up a few dots, it could have given them some momentum back. Just trying to be ultra-positive and obviously leave the game with no doubt because we felt like we dominated with the bat in that innings," Maxwell said.
The RCB batter was fairly lucky on the day as he could have been dismissed in the first ball of the innings, with the ball clipping his stumps. He was not called out since the bails did not fall off the stumps, something that is turning out to be a repetitive issue in the IPL.
Asked if he had heard the stumps being clipped or not, the batter said, "I didn't, but when I missed it I thought that's going to be pretty close to them. The worst thing is picking a wrong-un and missing it and thinking it's going to hit the stumps. You get those times when you need a bit of luck. Sometimes, throughout this tournament, it's been a bit up and down. You gotta take the good with the bad. It's like a run out of the bowler's hand. Some things you can't do anything about but at least the bails stayed on for me this time."