"He was trying to attack me": How Yuzvendra Chahal and MS Dhoni planned against Glenn Maxwell

With no doubts, Australia's Glenn Maxwell is one of the finest batsmen in limited-overs cricket. But a coin has two sides and so does every good cricketer.

In the 2017 series in India, Maxwell was dismissed four times - in the first three ODIs and first T20 between the two teams - by leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal.

In a recent interaction, Yuzvendra Chahal recalled how he and MS Dhoni planned to counter Glenn Maxwell in that series.

“I always tried to bowl outside the stumps to Glenn Maxwell. I also tried to keep mix-up my deliveries. I would mostly bowl to him outside the stumps, and sometimes I would bowl to him in the middle,” Chahal said in a video interaction with Mayank Agarwal and Kuldeep Yadav on BCCI website.

Speaking about Glen Maxwell's stumping dismissal in the 3rd ODI at Holkar Stadium in Indore,  Yuzvendra Chahal said, "The plan between me and Mahi bhai was to bowl to him outside the stumps. I knew he was about to charge on my bowl, so I bowled this one even further outside the off stump."

“He (Maxwell) was lacking patient in this series. He was always trying to attack on my deliveries, and he would start hitting shots against me. So I spoke to Mahi bhai, what to do. So Mahi bhai said, ‘we will mix-up the deliveries. We will not show him that we are about to bowl to him outside off-stump, so that it will create chances to get him out’,” the bowler added.

“Maxwell kept getting out on my deliveries. I have also dismissed him a few times in the IPL,” Chahal said.