IPL 2021: Scott Styris feels that paying Maxwell anything around 10 crores isn’t that worthy

Former New Zealand all-rounder, now a commentator Scott Styris spoke about Australia’s hard-hitter Glenn Maxwell ahead of the IPL 2021 mini-auctions. Maxwell was released by Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) after the franchises announced their respective list of retained and released players on Wednesday.

The former Kiwi player thinks that Maxwell’s slump performance has superseded the talent that he possesses.

Talking on the same lines, Styris said on Star Sports Network, “The answer is if anybody pays anything close to that sort of 10-crore mark, they have got rocks in their head. It is that simple. We all know how good a player he is, and that is not the question. The talent is there, but the talent has outweighed the actual performances we have seen from Glenn Maxwell.”

Maxwell will be available for trade in IPL 2021 auctions

“I think there will be someone who takes a chance on Maxwell, but it should only be something like base price. And you hope you strike lightning in a bottle and you get lucky and that he is in good form and he somehow manages to turn around what has been a pretty disappointing five or six years in the IPL,” Styris added.

KXIP bought the swashbuckling Australian hitter for Rs. 10.75 Crores during the IPL 2020 auction. Maxwell aggregated just 108 runs in the13 matches that he featured for KXIP.

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