IPL 2022
Glenn Maxwell Survives Despite Ball Clipping The Stumps
By CricShots - May 20, 2022 12:21 am
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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) is locking horns with Gujarat Titans (GT) in the 67th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. In the second innings, Glenn Maxwell on the very first ball of the innings against GT as a ball from Rashid Khan just clipped the stumps but the bails didn’t come off.

Glenn Maxwell
Glenn Maxwell suffered a close call

Earlier, GT skipper, Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bat first. Both the teams made one change in their respective XIs as for RCB, Siddharth Kaul replaced Mohammed Siraj, whereas, Lockie Ferguson came in for Alzarri Joseph in GT’s XI. Despite scoring 14 runs in the first over, GT had a shaky start as they lost Shubman Gill in the third over owing to a brilliant catch by Glenn Maxwell in the second innings.

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Hardik Pandya scored a half-century and owing to the fiery knock from Rashid Khan, GT managed to register the score of 168/5 in their quota of 20 overs. Chasing 169 was never going to be easy against GT with the kind of bowling attack they have got.

However, both RCB openers, Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis gave a dream start.  Especially, Kohli went on to play some brilliant strokes and completed his half-century in 33 balls. After Faf du Plessis was dismissed, Glenn Maxwell walked in to bat at No. 3. Rashid Khan was bowling the 15th over of the innings and Maxwell attempted a slog.

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Maxwell missed the shot completely and the ball just licked the stumps. Surprisingly, the bails didn’t come off and Maxwell survived in the luckiest incident of the innings. After getting a lifeline on the first ball, Maxwell played a destructive knock.

Here is the video of the incident: