IPL 2017 Player Battles: Top 4 Player Encounters in KKR v Kings XI Punjab Match

#3 Kuldeep Yadav (KKR) v Glenn Maxwell (KXIP)

Maxwell has shown great touch this IPL with two scintillating cameos

Kuldeep Yadav bamboozled Maxwell in the fourth Test at Dharamsala with the wrong’un, on Test debut. But T20 is an altogether different ballgame. Both Yadav and Maxwell have been in excellent form with ball and bat respectively. It will be an exciting contest for sure.

Yadav has registered figures of 2-25 against Gujarat Lions and 1-35 against Mumbai Indians. Maxwell is in a murderous batting mood with two unbeaten cameos, 43* off 22 against RCB and 44* off 20 against Pune. But, playing spin is his achilles heel, and Kuldeep, in particular, on a sticky Kolkata wicket would be tough to handle.

That contest could very much determine who will come out on top as Gautam Gambhir, being the shrewd captain that he is, would definitely test his opposite number with spin. Maxwell is a man on a mission, leading KXIP and would like to rediscover the form that helped him take KXIP to the IPL Final couple of seasons ago.