NEW DELHI: Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell spilled the beans on the workforce infighting throughout his stint with Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) within the IPL, the place he performed from 2014 to 2017.
Maxwell had an excellent 2014 season, amassing 552 runs with a strike charge exceeding 187. Nonetheless, his fortunes declined through the 2017 season, and his function got here underneath scanner on account of shifting of energy construction, as he revealed in his newest ebook.
Virender Sehwag was roped in as mentor of Punjab and it was the time when Maxwell was named the aspect’s captain. Nonetheless, the duo discovered themselves at loggerheads with Sehwag asserting his authority and taking management of choices, together with deciding on the enjoying XI.
“When it got here to choice, I believed it is likely to be a good suggestion to deliver the coaches right into a WhatsApp group to make our selections. Everybody agreed to this and shared their groups, except Sehwag,” Maxwell wrote in his ebook, the excerpt of which was revealed on ESPNCricinfo.
“On the finish of the method, he made it clear that he would choose the beginning XI, finish of story. We have been shedding on and off the sector by now, with Sehwag on a couple of event making selections that did not essentially make sense.”
Maxwell revealed that his relationship with Sehwag deteriorated additional after he publicly criticized him. This public criticism deepened the rift between the 2, worsening their already strained dynamic.
“The season got here right down to our remaining group sport towards Pune away from house, and we had a shocker batting first on a moist wicket, rolled for 73. It was throughout. Within the context of what was occurring, I am nonetheless fairly pleased with how we have been capable of broadly preserve the present on the street till that stage,” Maxwell wrote.
“I used to be additionally pleased with how I carried out, doing the precise factor as chief by giving myself the prospect to affect video games on the proper time with bat and ball. In fact, we have been all flat to not make the postseason, nevertheless it may have been a lot worse.
“I volunteered to do press that night time, however Sehwag mentioned he would as an alternative. Upon getting onto the workforce bus, I discovered I might been deleted from the principle WhatsApp group. What was occurring right here? By the point we reached the resort my cellphone was blowing up, with Sehwag having unloaded on me as a “massive disappointment”, blaming me for not taking duty as captain, and all the remaining. It was disagreeable, particularly after I thought we had parted on good phrases.”
“I texted him to say how a lot it harm to learn these feedback and added that he had misplaced a fan in me for the way in which he had performed himself. Sehwag’s response was easy: “Do not want fan such as you.” We by no means spoke once more. I knew my time was at an finish and instructed the homeowners as a lot: if Sehwag was going to stay round, they have been making a mistake and to not trouble with me. He solely lasted yet another season,” Maxwell wrote.
