Former India batter Aakash Chopra has named Glenn Maxwell as one of the Punjab Kings (PBKS) players in focus before their IPL 2025 clash against the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) as well. He added that Maxwell is unpredictable and he was dismissed while playing a terrible shot in PBKS’ last game against the Gujarat Titans (GT) as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel, ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “One thing that will be worth watching would be how Maxwell would play because no one knows how Maxwell would play. Whether he would hit or not, who knows? That’s Glenn Maxwell. He got out for zero in the last match. He should have taken the DRS, but he didn’t take it because he had played such a bad shot.”

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“If you make one of Azmatullah Omarzai and Marco Jansen sit out, you will need one batter. They had sent Azmatullah up the order. If he isn’t there, then there will be more responsibility on Maxwell. Prabhsimran Singh also needs to score runs because Priyansh Arya has scored runs, but Prabhsimran hasn’t, and he was one of their retained players,” Chopra shared again.

However, Aakash Chopra also stated that the Punjab Kings might consider playing Lockie Ferguson at either Azmatullah Omarzai or Marco
Jansen’s place in their IPL 2025 clash against the Lucknow Super Giants as well.

“Punjab might be thinking whether to play both Azmatullah Omarzai and Marco Jansen or play just one of them and bring in Lockie Ferguson. Azmatullah Omarzai and Marco Jansen can bat. So you get batting depth, but the fast bowling looks okay and not great. Arshdeep Singh is there. He does very well, but if you go with Azmatullah Omarzai and Marco Jansen, it’s a problem. So you can drop one of the two and play a pure out-and-out fast bowler because you would need that,” Chopra observed.