IPL 2025 ka maidan garam hai, lekin kuch bade naam bilkul thande pad gaye hain. Virender Sehwag, jo ki apne bina filter ke comments ke liye mashhoor hain, is baar overseas players par bhadak gaye. Unka target the Punjab Kings (PBKS) ke Glenn Maxwell aur Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) ke Liam Livingstone.
“Players like Glenn Maxwell and Liam Livingstone don’t seem to have the hunger. They come for the IPL and treat it like a holiday with absolutely no desire to win or make an impact,” Sehwag ne Cricbuzz par bola.
Ab baat karte hain unke numbers ki. Livingstone ne IPL ke 7 matches mein sirf 87 runs banaye, average raha 17.40, aur highest score 54. Wahin Maxwell ne to aur bhi bura khel dikhaya – 6 matches mein sirf 41 runs, average 8.20. Bowling mein bhi unhone 13 overs mein 110 runs diye aur sirf 4 wickets liye.
RCB ne Livingstone ko bench par daal diya hai unki performance dekh kar. RCB ka latest match Punjab Kings ke against ho raha hai Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur, Chandigarh mein. PBKS ne batting karte hue 157 runs ka score banaya, aur chase mein Virat Kohli aur Devdutt Padikkal ne shandaar shuruaat di hai. Padikkal ne already fifty maar li hai aur Kohli bhi uske kareeb hai.
Points table ki baat karein to Gujarat Titans (GT) top pe hai aur Delhi Capitals (DC) second position pe. Wahin CSK, jo ki hamesha top 4 mein rehti thi, iss baar 10th spot</strong pe hai, aur pichle season ke finalists Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) 9th position pe hain.
Sehwag ke comments sirf ek wake-up call nahi hain, balki ek reminder bhi hain ki IPL sirf paisa kamaane ka platform nahi hai—yeh pride ka issue hai. Dekhna yeh hoga ki kya Maxwell aur Livingstone apni game sudhaarte hain ya phir IPL unke liye sirf ek aur “paid vacation” ban ke reh jaayega.
