3rd ODI: Glenn Maxwell Impressed With Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja's Clean-Hitting Skills | Cricket News
Known for his brutal strokeplay himself, Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell was on Wednesday left impressed with a clean-hitting display from India’s Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik Pandya in the third ODI. Hardik (92 not out) and Jadeja (66 not out) shared an unbeaten 150-run stand which effectively won the game for India. Asked whether the Hardik-Jadeja partnership changed the game in India’s favour, Maxwell said, “Yes, certainly, I think, the way the wicket was probably behaving through out, we had them 5 for 150 and one wicket away from I suppose the bowling line-up, so we knew we were one wicket away.”
“But, unfortunately, the way they were able to play, they put pressure on, they (Hardik and Jadeja) accelerated and took the game away from us with some really clean hitting,” Maxwell said at the virtual post-match press conference.
Maxwell, who hit 59 off 38 balls, also felt that the run out of wicket-keeper Alex Carey (38) was a key moment of the game that his team lost by 13 runs.
“…I thought probably the changing point was the run-out of Carey, which was probably 100 per cent my fault. “Unfortunately, when you sort of leave yourself with, we were six down at that stage, makes it little bit tougher, because you know one mistake, it can turn all-around pretty quickly, I think that (Carey run-out) was probably a key moment of the game,” he said.
