Hardik and Maxwell are both destructive batsmen and their very style of playing scares the bowlers to bowl. At the point when India’s tour of Australia began the attention was on enormous names like Virat Kohli, Steve Smith, KL Rahul, David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan. Be that as it may, from what we saw on in the ODIs and the T20s, there is substantially more to this arrangement than those large names. A decade back, if a batsman walks in at a stage where most of the top-order batsman is back in the pavilion and there is still a lot more runs to get, the batsman would take his time, play some dot balls and analyse his inning.
But with players like Maxwell and Hardik playing at number 5, the only thing we can expect from them is to play it in their own fashion. Being explosive batsman, they both start hitting boundaries without wasting any deliveries and by doing so they manage to put the pressure back on the opponent. Maxwell scored 45 of 19 in first ODI, 63 of 29 in the 2nd, and 59 of 38 in the 3rd ODI. Hardik on the other hand scored 90 of 76, 28 of 31 and 92 of 76 in the three ODIs against Australia. Looking at their scores, it is anything but difficult to conclude which player is the most destructive one.
Maxwell did not have a very good IPL season and in fact, this IPL season might be his worst. However, he made an excellent comeback in the international form of cricket playing for his country and played an important part in his country’s ODI series win. Hardik’s performance in IPL has just carried on with him to Australia in the ODI and T20 series. To decide who is the best among these two is up to the fans!!