Indian young pace ace Mayank Yadav recorded one of the most impressive dream debuts in the ongoing Indian Premier League 2024 last week, claiming the figures of 3-27 in LSG's match against Punjab Kings. Mayank Yadav, playing for Lucknow Super Giants, clocked the fastest delivery of the IPL 2024 on his debut. 

His fiery spell launched his side to their first victory of the tournament. Most recently, his impressive spell powered his side to their second straight victory in the tournament when LSG thrashed RCB on Tuesday. Against RCB as well, Mayank Yadav collected three wickets. One of the three victims of Mayank Yadav was RCB batter Glenn Maxwell who has been facing criticism for his deteriorating form. 

Yadav didn’t play any single game for Lucknow Super Giants in 2022 after being signed by the franchise, and in 2023 he was ruled out of the tournament due to an injury. Glenn Maxwell, opening up on his dismissal, said he had closely watched Yadav in action and prepared himself to face him. 

"I thought it was really impressive. He hurried on a few of the Punjab batters and I certainly did a little bit of homework before coming up against him. But it's nothing doing homework against someone until you actually see it coming out of the hand and have to try and pick up the length,” Maxwell said on ESPN’s Around The Wicket show. 

"He bowled me the first one which was just a high bouncer and the wicket that we've been producing at [Bengaluru] has been a little bit two-paced and it sort of came through a bit slower than I thought it was going to. And I was like, ah, that wasn't too bad."

"And then the next one was hard length and skidded on probably faster than I thought it was going to be and as you saw I went to pull thinking that I picked up the length really well and before you know it, it's on you, hitting the shoulder the bat and ballooning up in the air."

"He has some real extra speed that you don't really see a lot of around world cricket at the moment. You see guys bowl pretty consistently around the 140s [kph] or high 140s. But to have mid-150s consistently in your arsenal is pretty formidable."

Maxwell compared Mayank Yadav to former Australian bowling legend Shaun Tait in terms of his pace when he was coming of age. 

"It's such a beautiful smooth action," Maxwell said. "He [Mayank] sort of glided through the crease really nicely. I think pace-wise, the only one that I can sort of really resemble it to is a little bit like Shaun Tait when he was in his heyday," said Maxwell.

"I think when he was at the peak of his powers it was extremely hard to pick up the extra zip it feels like it has off the wicket. I think that's as close as it probably comes to it," he added.