I probably went in overconfident in those first couple of games says Glenn Maxwell

I probably went in overconfident in those first couple of games says Glenn Maxwell: By now we are all in a position to admit the fact that being cricket fans sometimes we are too demanding, nothing lesser than a win from the team and a match winning knock from the players we support is acceptable to us. Not everyone but many of us. And that is where the cricketers who not only go out to play for their own self or for the banner they are playing under but in the larger sense for the fans, get hit hard.

Who doesn’t like to perform? Stealing the show every time is the intent every sportsperson likes to carry while going out to play. But there are times, when not just your form, but the touch and the confidence evaporate. It is a moment when we need some support but looking outwards what one finds is out right criticism and blames darting inwards.

Imagine the situation this man termed Big Show, Glenn Maxwell must be in at the moment? One can easily call him the pioneer performers for Kings XI Punjab last season and it was him who almost singlehandedly on most occasions took them through the finish line. This season of the IPL has been something he would want to burry off and forget. 7 matches and just 75 runs are certainly not the numbers we expect from Maxie.

He seems distressed as well, who would be happy with their team being at the bottom of the table and already pushed off the race for the next stage.

Maxwell was quoted by Wisden India saying:”I’ve been through plenty of highs and lows so it’s nothing I’m not used to, “I know T20 cricket can be like that sometimes, where it’s a bit hit-and-miss. Especially the way I play. I try to be a match-winner. It’s not going to happen all the time. But I’m pretty fine with where my form is at. I’d like more runs. I’m hitting the ball well so it’s not bothering me too much.”

It is not about what people think of me, or say but I struggle to deal with my own self-expectations says Maxwell, “It’s more of the self-expectations I struggle to deal with, “I think that frustrates me more than anything. I want things to happen quickly. I want things to continue on the way they did last year. I would have loved to start this year the way I did last year, but you have to understand you can’t always produce Man-of-the-Match performances as frequently as I did last year.

“I think I got the first three of the tournament which is extremely rare, and that was extremely surprising for me. I came into this IPL with a lot of confidence after the World Cup, and I might have expected it to continue on. I probably went in overconfident in those first couple of games.”

He believes in living in the present, looks at his good performances to try and reflect them and likes to forget the bad ones, “I try to look at my good innings and reflect on those and ignore all the bad innings I play, “I have a lot of people that doubt me, that say I need to work on certain things and say I need to be more consistent. But I just back the fact that if I get in, my team is going to be on the winning side of the ledger.” Glenn Maxwell said.

The thundering Australian batsman said he does not need critics to point him out where things are going wrong as he is his own critic.”Comfortably, I am my own worst critic,” I have exceptionally high standards of what I expect to produce in a game. When I don’t reach that, I get disappointed. I train harder and do everything I can to rectify that.”