Glenn Maxwell Looking Forward to Play in IPL

With the ICC T20 World Cup for this year finally cancelled by the International Cricket Council (ICC), Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell shared that he is preparing for the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) in September. As many as 17 Australia players will play in the cash-rich league.

Although he said that he was disappointed as the T20 World Cup has cancelled which was scheduled to take place in Australia, he was "pretty excited" to play in the IPL.

“Any time you have a home World Cup you are certainly looking forward to it. We felt like we had been building towards it as a T20 side,” he told Foxsports. “You wait and see (with the IPL), waiting on the judgments of other people, what you can and can’t do with travel and quarantine times and all that, if everything gets ticked off there I have no real reason no to go.”

He further added, “The overseas guys get a hell of a kick playing in it, some of the best players in the world rubbing shoulders, similar to a World Cup, but on a smaller scale. If everything gets ticked off I would love to be available for it.”

Glenn Maxwell took a break from cricket last year in October owing to his mental health. But he returned with the last years Big Bash League and did fairly well. Since the entire world has been fighting against the global pandemic novel coronavirus and it postponed all the sporting events across the globe including the 13th edition of IPL which was earlier scheduled to be held in March.

However, its imposed lockdown has affected players’ a lot and Maxwell said that he has been in touch with the coach Justin Langer and preparing himself mentally and physically as well to get back in action soon.

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Kapil Dev's Advice Helped Rahul Dravid Take Coaching After Retirement

Batting legend Rahul Dravid said that legendary India captain Kapil Dev helped him to think about coaching options after his retirement. That certainly worked for Dravid as he eventually took up the coaching job of India A and Under-19 teams. Under his guidance, India U-19 team won the World Cup in 2018 and reached the final in 2020 as well.

"After I finished (playing), there were quite a few options and I was not sure what to do. It was Kapil Dev who gave me this advice actually when I was coming to the end of my career," Dravid told the head coach of India women's team, WV Raman, on his chat show 'Inside Out'. "I bumped into him somewhere and he said 'Rahul, don't commit to doing anything straightaway, go out and spend a few years just exploring and doing different things and see what you really like'. I thought it was good advice."

While he said that he started liking commentary but later he felt like disconnect" from the game and being connected with the players give him satisfaction. And he shared that he liked to get involved through coaching when he got the opportunity of India A and Under-19 team.

The great batsman, who amassed 13288 runs from 164 Tests between 1996 and 2012 and currently the Head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru said that te BCCI took a right decision on their U-19 teams. With that, a pool of 45 to 50 players can get the exposure to the facilities at NCA where they can have good coaches, good physios, good trainers and whatever required.

However, Rahul Dravid also revealed that he had doubt on himself as an ODI player when he was dropped from the squad in 1998 owing to his strike rate. He was not in the circuit for a year and he got insecure as well. But he came back with a bang to the ODI side before the 1999 World Cup in England and became the highest run-getter (461) of the tournament. He later played in the 2003 World Cup and also led the team in the 2007 World Cup.

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Gautam Gambhir Believes MS Dhoni Was Lucky for India

Former India opener Gautam Gambhir thinks India’s wicketkeeper-batsman as well as former captain MS Dhoni, who successfully led Team India to two ICC World Cups victories, one ICC Champions Trophy and also took the side to the number one ranking in Test cricket, was 'very lucky' as a captain.

Gambhir believes Dhoni got the benefit of an experienced team as the hard work to make the team was done by his predecessors, most specifically current BCCI president and former India captain Sourav Ganguly.

"Dhoni has been a very lucky captain because he got an amazing team in every format. Captaining 2011 World Cup team was very easy for Dhoni because we had players like Sachin (Tendulkar), (Virender) Sehwag, myself, Yuvraj (Singh), Yusuf (Pathan), Virat (Kohli) so he had got the best teams," Gambhir said on Star Sports show Cricket Connected. "Ganguly had to work very hard for it, and as a result, Dhoni won so many trophies."

MS Dhoni is considered as one of the best captains of world cricket. Even under his captaincy, Team India has a quite good record in Test cricket - especially at home and it was under him only that India achieved the top rank in the ICC rankings for the very first time. However, India hardly did well away from home under his reign in the longer format of the game.

However, Gautam Gambhir believes that MS Dhoni's success in the longer format of the game came on the back of one important player who was made by none other than Ganguly - Zaheer Khan.

"The reason Dhoni became such a successful captain in Test cricket is because of Zaheer Khan. He was a big blessing that Dhoni got, for which credit goes to Ganguly. According to me, Zaheer has been India’s best world-class bowler," he concluded.

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Nasser Hussain Comments on Virat Kohli’s Captaincy

Former England captain Nasser Hussain has referred India captain, Virat Kohli, a 'tinker man', said that at times he tinkers a little bit too much with his captaincy. While speaking on Star Sports show Cricket Connected, Hussain said how Kohli has emerged as a captain over the years.

"First thing I would say is he’s his own man. It’s very easy coming after MS Dhoni and think, well, I’ve got to be like MS Dhoni, I’ve got to be this calm, calculated finisher, cool, ice man. Virat Kohli could never be the cool ice man. Virat Kohli wears his heart on his sleeve," Hussain said.

He again added, "If you watch Virat Kohli play football in the morning, I worry about some of his own players because he’s so keen to win, he could do a double-footed tackle at waist height to be honest because he just wants to win and that’s why in a run chase in white-ball cricket, if you ask me to name one person I want in a run chase in white-ball cricket, it would be Kohli because he sees that winning target and that’s all he’s interested in.”

Husain also opened up about India's 'selection plan', saying that India made a mistake in the World Cup 2019 by not researching properly for the No. 4 position. India lost to New Zealand in the semifinal of 2019 Cricket World Cup. And since then, former India captain MS Dhoni has been out of the action.

He added that while coming to a World Cup, they need to know about the crucial No. 4 position when they got so many great batsmen in the team. But they lacked in that position which was needed to be sorted out. However, that might have cost them the game as well. Notably, India have tried many players in that position but hardly a few did well.

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