XtraTime Web Desk – Glenn Maxwell had a mixed of a year. While scoring a century against England in September to failing miserably in IPL, Maxwell has been positive throughout his whole journey.
After taking a break in the last year because of his mental health reasons, Maxwell feels that helped him to grow and that break has helped him to stay positive in the bio-bubble. Speaking to Cricket Australia, Maxwell said, “I think in hindsight it was probably a pretty good time to go through something like that, where I was able to put some groundwork in to deal with adversity. This year has certainly been a massive test of it, and to put (in place) some of my learnings and help other people with it and be a shoulder for other people to lean on, that’s probably been something I didn’t expect last year”.
Maxwell added, “But to be able to help people through different tough periods and be able to help myself through those has been really key as well”.
He also appreciated his captain from Kings XI Punjab, KL Rahul. He thinks the only way to stop KL is to run him out. He said, “He is a gun. We had a team meeting the other day and they came to me and asked how I thought we should get him out, and one of things I said was try and run him out. So I think that’s what we’re going to try and do the whole way through the series, try and run him out and hope for the best”.
Maxwell didn’t stop as he continued to speak about his captain from the Kings XI camp. “He’s a great performer … got a great temperament, great head on his shoulders and is extremely calm in pressure situations”.
Maxwell also highlighted on why he couldn’t perform well in this year’s IPL. “I’ve probably overdone it a bit, as far as training goes in the UAE (where the IPL was staged).
“I went pretty hard there, so came back and felt like I needed a bit of a break and the Cricket Australia staff here have been really good, having a talk through that and making sure each individual has the best plan going into the next series”.
Maxwell also talked about the importance of Adam Zampa in the upcoming series. The leg spinner is also to be vital in order to get Virat Kohli’s wicket. Maxwell said, “He’s been very good against Virat, and one of the key things is having good match-ups against their batsmen”.
“Adam’s obviously had a pretty good time against Virat in recent history, but you can guarantee that Virat’s working just has hard to combat that”. He added.
“He’s an incredibly hard trainer and hard worker, and you know he’s putting in all the work to combat our attack in any way possible.”
The 28 year old Australian however said that he has no problem in playing in the empty stands. “It should be really cool, but even during the IPL we had the fake noise which actually helped a little bit. Having that slight atmosphere to it was quite nice. But to have actual, real people there will be even better”.
India’s series against Australia will be starting on 27th of November when India takes on Australia in an ODI match at Sydney.