Zoom News : Apr 10, 2021, 09:36 AM
IPL 2021 | The 14th season of the Indian Premier League has begun. In the first match of the tournament, the team of Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Mumbai Indians by 2 wickets in the last ball last match. Glenn Maxwell, playing his first season for RCB, appeared in a good rhythm and played a crucial innings of 39 runs in 28 balls. After the win, Captain Kohli called Maxwell a game changer and praised his inning. Meanwhile, former India cricketer Irfan Pathan has made a big prediction about Maxwell, saying that he will score around 400 in IPL 2021.In fact, after seeing Glenn Maxwell's debut batting against Mumbai, Irfan Pathane wrote on his Twitter, 'Maxwell will score around 400 this season. He has looked very confident in the seven balls he has played so far. Maxwell took over the team's innings with captain Virat Kohli after Washington Sundar and Rajat Patidar's wickets fell early, and shared a 52-run partnership for the third wicket. He hit 3 fours and two long sixes during his 39-run innings.Batting first after losing the toss, Mumbai Indians scored 159 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs thanks to Chris Lynn's innings of 49 runs. Mumbai did not have a good start and skipper Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion in an unfortunate runout. After this, Suryakumar Yadav and Chris Lynn shared a 70-run partnership for the second wicket. Kyle Jamieson broke the partnership by dismissing Suryakumar for a score of 31. After this, Mumbai lost wickets at frequent intervals and the team could only score 159 runs.