{"id":2725,"date":"2021-09-09T13:14:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T07:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=147815"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T07:44:42","slug":"glenn-maxwell-returns-to-dubai-as-he-joins-rcb-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/glenn-maxwell-returns-to-dubai-as-he-joins-rcb-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Maxwell returns to Dubai as he joins RCB squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Premier League as well as the Royal Challengers Bangalore have officially announced that Glenn Maxwell of Australia has joined the RCB squad as he can\u2019t wait to get back to his impeccable performance shown in the first half of the IPL conducted in India. It was unfortunately decided by the BCCI that the rest of the tournament won\u2019t be held in India due to the surge in COVID-19 cases. Many players as well as a coaching staff were detected with COVID-19, and with quarantine periods it was a major headache for most of the players. The rest of the tournament will begin from September 19 till October 10 in Dubai and UAE onwards.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the form of Maxwell in the first half of the biggest cricket tournament, it is seen that he\u2019s one of those batsmen who can shine throughout the entire season. He has an eye to watch by many cricketing experts all around the world. He was impressive in the first half of the tournament with half-centuries and match-winning knocks.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussie put the centre stage ablaze with his sensational drives and hard-hitting shots as he scored 223 runs in 7 games with a strike rate of 144.80. He scored two half-centuries in the seven games played by the RCB.<\/p>\n<p>Fans cannot wait to see the Aussie do what might be his best IPL performance for the Royal Challengers Bangalore as they are one of the favourites to win the IPL with the likes of Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Challengers Bangalore was in all smiles about the hard-hitting Australian returning to RCB as they quoted \u201cGlenn Maxwell has joined us in the UAE and he can\u2019t wait to start the party in the Red and Gold again\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Glenn Maxwell has joined us in the UAE and he can\u2019t wait to start the party in the Red and Gold again! \ud83e\udd29\ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffb<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PlayBold?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlayBold<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreChallengers?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreChallengers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IPL2021?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IPL2021<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MaxiHasArrived?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MaxiHasArrived<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U13mcDtS4T\">pic.twitter.com\/U13mcDtS4T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RCBTweets\/status\/1435793009367420929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian all-rounder joins Royal Challenger Bangalore as he can\u2019t wait to get started for the second half of the IPL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":25810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[477,597,923,347],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-dubai","tag-glenn-maxwell","tag-royal-challengers-bengaluru","tag-uae"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}