Babar marked the day he unseated Virat Kohli to become the top-ranked ODI batsman in the world with another brilliant limited-overs innings, albeit in the shortest format this time.
Warner scored his 49th half-century in the tournament, off 31 balls against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
One of Zimbabwe's finest fast bowlers, 47-year-old Streak was under investigation for a host of games between 2017 and 2018 when he served as a coach.
The Aussie star was back at his best in the IPL finally as the Aussie skipper, turning up for Royal Challengers Bangalore, scored a 41-ball 59 against Sunrisers Hyderabad on a patchy surface.
Maxwell's 59 helped RCB recover from Rashid Khan's brilliant 2 for 18 that reduced the team to 109 for six in the 17th over.
Delhi Capitals' South African speedsters Anrich Nortje and Kagiso Rabada will not be available for the team's second match against Rajasthan Royals on Thursday as their COVID-19 test reports are still awaited.
Despite his worst ever IPL season last year in the UAE where he scored 108 runs in 106 balls for Kings XI Punjab, Maxwell was roped in by RCB for a whopping INR14.25 crore in the auction earlier this year in Chennai.
Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner sent in Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore to bat first after winning the toss in match six of IPL 2021 in Chennai on Wednesday.
Since 2018, Kohli has a strike rate of 133.1 in T20 cricket which includes 121.4 in IPL 2020 and 113.8 in the only game he played this season.
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