‘We should run him out’ Glenn Maxwell feels it’s tough for Australian bowlers to dismiss KL Rahul

India wicket-keeper batsman KL Rahul was in incredible form in IPL 2020 and his brilliant performance was rewarded with him earning a place in all the three squads for the Australia Tour.

The batsman was the top-scorer in the Indian Premier League and earned the Orange Cap by scoring 670 runs in 14 matches. He also hit a scintillating century and smashed 132 runs off just 69 deliveries against the Royal Challengers Bangalore, also posting the highest individual score by an Indian in IPL history.

His KXIP team-mate Glenn Maxwell, who had a poor season in IPL 2020, will now be up against him in the T20 series between India and Australia starting in exactly a week’s time. Maxwell praised KL Rahul for the kind of form he is in, and said that the player has a great temperament and can stay calm in pressure situations. “He was a gun [in the IPL],” Maxwell told cricket.com.au of the 28-year-old right-hander.

“We [Australia] had a team meeting the other day and they came to me and asked how I thought we should get Rahul 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.

“He’s a great performer got a great temperament, great head on his shoulders and is extremely calm in pressure situations,” Maxwell added.

Maxwell admits to a frustrating IPL season

Glenn Maxwell also admitted that he has had a frustrating IPL season, and said that he now looked forward to the long Australian summer ahead. “I was hitting the ball fine [in the IPL], I just wasn’t getting much of a crack but that can happen.

“I’m now looking at the bigger picture and understanding my role in the Australian side, trying to put the IPL aside and thinking about what I need to do to get ready for every game,” he said.