IPL 2014: 5 Features of Glenn Maxwell School of Dominance

Glenn Maxwell has been the star of the show so far in IPL 2014. 7 Matches, 435Runs, averaging 62.14, striking at over 203, 27 sixes, 41fours: those are eerily outrageous numbers, to say the least.After their ordinary campaign last year, who would have thought that Kings XI Punjab would be the side to beat in the very next season? Now that it is, a lions share of credit must go to The Big Show', who single-handedly won his team three games on the trot.Here are a few characteristic features of Maxwell's destructive batting:

#5 Contempt for the bowlers

Maxwell loves intimidating the bowlers. He seems to be fully aware of the fact that once he punishes a bowler, the bowler fears getting hit again, no matter how good he may be. This incites him to further kill the confidence, if any, left in the bowler by going all out attacking.

In an interview with Alternative Cricket, he reveals his reading of a bowler’s mentality, saying, "I think when a bowler knows he’s got someone on top of him, they just go underwater. Especially the Indian side, I don’t think they deal too well with someone being on top of them.”

In the opening fixture of this year’s IPL, the duel between Maxwell and Ravichandran Ashwin was revealing of what he had meant; once Maxwell started picking Ashwin’s carrom deliveries, the latter had nowhere to hide as he was outfoxed time and again with the Australian's improvisation.