Season 14 of the Indian Premier League has begun. Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Mumbai Indians by 2 wickets in the first match of the tournament. Glenn Maxwell, playing his first playing catch for RCB, appeared in good rhythm and played a crucial innings of 39 off 28 balls. After the win, Captain Kohli called Maxwell a game changer and praised his innings. Meanwhile, former Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan has made a big prediction about Maxwell, saying he will hit 400 in IPL 2021.
Maxwell will score some 400 runs in this season. He has confidence in these first 7 balls he faced. # IPL2021
– Irfan Pathan (r Irfanpathan) April 9, 2021
In fact, after watching Glenn Maxwell’s debut against Mumbai, Irfan Pathan wrote on his Twitter, ‘Maxwell will score almost 400 this season. He is very confident in the seven balls he has played so far. Maxwell’s captain Virat Kohli took the team’s innings and shared a 52-run partnership for the third wicket after Washington Sundar and Rajat Patidar’s wickets fell early. He hit three fours and two long sixes in his 39-run innings.
RCB defeated MI, while Kohli credited the victory to the two players
After losing the toss, Mumbai Indians batted first and scored 159 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. Thanks to Chris Lynn for his 49th run. Mumbai did not get off to a good start and captain Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion in an unfortunate runout. After that, Suryakumar Yadav and Chris Lynn shared 70 runs for the second wicket. Kyle Jamison broke the partnership by dismissing Suryakumar for 31 points. After this, Mumbai repeatedly lost wickets and the team was able to score only 159 runs.
