The Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has opened up on his experience of facing new sensational pacer Mayank Yadav after Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the match against Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2024.
Glenn Maxwell Opens on Mayank Yadav
Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the match against Lucknow Super Giants by 28 runs difference.
Australian Cricketer who plays for RCB in the Indian Premier League has described the pace of Mayank Yadav as “pretty formidable” and suggested that his bowling speed equals the former Australian pacer, Shaun Tait.
Glenn Maxwell was sent out by Mayank Yadav during the 16th match of the IPL 2024 season on Tuesday. Mayank stunning display earned a Player of the Match as he dismissed Australian player Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Green with two deliveries above 150 kph.
While speaking in the post-match conference, “I thought it was really impressive,” Maxwell said.
“He hurried on a few of the Punjab batters and I certainly did a little bit of homework before coming up against him. But it’s nothing doing homework against someone until you see it coming out of the hand and have to try and pick up the length.
“He bowled me the first one which was just a high bouncer and the wicket that we’ve been producing at [Bengaluru] has been a little bit two-paced and it sort of came through a bit slower than I thought it was going to. And I was like, ah, that wasn’t too bad.
“And then the next one was hard length and skidded on probably faster than I thought it was going to be and as you saw I went to pull thinking that I picked up the length really well and before you know it, it’s on you, hitting the shoulder the bat and ballooning up in the air.
“He has some real extra speed that you don’t really see a lot of around world cricket at the moment. You see guys bowl pretty consistently around the 140s [kph] or high 140s. But to have mid-150s consistently in your arsenal is pretty formidable.”
He also added that Mayank’s pace was equal to that of Tait. “It’s such a beautiful smooth action,” Maxwell said.
“He [Mayank] sort of glided through the crease really nicely. I think pace-wise, the only one that I can sort of really resemble it to is a little bit like Shaun Tait when he was in his heyday.”
“I think when he was at the peak of his powers it was extremely hard to pick up the extra zip it feels like it has off the wicket. I think that’s as close as it probably comes to it.”
“It obviously hasn’t been a great start for us or myself individually,” Maxwell said. “It’s been a little bit of a struggle. I think we’ve been probably caught a little bit behind with the conditions that we’ve probably produced in the first few home games as well.”
“I think last year we had a beautiful even wicket that we were able to I suppose get ourselves into the game, get our top batters going and I’ve felt that those two-paced wickets it’s just been a bit of a struggle for our overseas players to get into the game and get that sort of consistency of performance.”
“And when you start slow in T20 cricket it can be a hard thing to come back and find rhythm to get back into it. So hopefully this little away trip does us some good,” concluded Glenn Maxwell.
After this defeat, Royal Challengers Bangalore secured 8th position in the IPL 2024 points table. Royal Challengers Bangalore will be playing their next match against Rajasthan Royals on April 06 at Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium.
