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Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag has reignited his long-running feud with Glenn Maxwell, accusing the Australian batter of treating the Indian Premier League as a “holiday”. Maxwell was dropped from the Punjab Kings’ starting XI last week having contributed 41 runs across five knocks, averaging 8.20 with a strike rate of 100.
00 this season. It comes after the Victorian, who was signed by Punjab for $770,000, accumulated 52 runs at 5.77 during last year’s IPL campaign with the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Despite making some valuable contributions with the ball — taking four wickets at 27.50 — Punjab coach Ricky Ponting sidelined Maxwell for the franchise’s two most recent games against the Royal Challengers. FOX CRICKET, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of the 2025 Indian Premier League exclusively LIVE | New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1.
Limited time offer > Speaking to Cricbuzz , Sehwag declared that Maxwell and England batter Liam Livingstone, having also struggled with the bat, had “no hunger anymore” in the glamorous T20 tournament. “They come to India to spend their holidays,” Sehwag said. “It’s not like they love their teams, or that they are passionate about winning games for them.
That they have not won a trophy yet and they have to get it done this year. “I have played with a lot of overseas players, out of which maybe one or two of them had the hunger. These other guys only talk and do not show any performance on the field.
” Maxwell and Sehwag had a falling out eight years ago when the former Indian opener, part of Punjab’s high-performance team at the time, called the Australian a “big disappointment” during a press conference. “It was unpleasant, especially when I thought we had parted on good terms,” Maxwell recalled in his book The Showman . “I texted him to say how much it hurt to read those comments and added that he had lost a fan in me for the way he had conducted himself.
Sehwag’s response was simple: ‘Don’t need fan like you.’ “We never spoke again.” Punjab will next face the Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens on Sunday morning at 12am AEST.
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