AUS vs ENG: "I Probably Didn’t Sleep For Two Days While I Was In Agony"- Glenn Maxwell Describes In Explicit Detail The Strange Accident That Caused His Leg To "Break."

Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell, who broke his leg in a strange accident at a backyard birthday celebration, has shared some of the gory details. 

Maxwell stated he waited for almost an hour in the rain after hearing his leg break beneath a friend’s weight at a 50th birthday party, which has sidelined him for a considerable amount of time.

Glenn Maxwell Describes How He Got Injured

“One of my mates, who was also one of my schoolteachers, we were laughing about something and I pretended to chase him off somewhere,” Maxwell said.  

“I reckon we both took about three or four steps out there, and both slipped at the same time. I just got my foot stuck a little bit, and he fell, unfortunately at a really bad angle and landed straight on my leg. 

“It just snapped. I heard and felt every part of it. It was pretty painful. 

“I was screaming a bit and he was like, ‘please tell me you’re joking, please tell me you’re joking’.” 

Glenn Maxwell Shares Details Of The Incident That Broke His Left Fibula

Glenn Maxwell admitted that the fact that the incident was so unimportant and might prevent him from returning to the Test arena made it harder to deal with the pain from breaking his left fibula. 

“I probably didn’t sleep for two days while I was in agony,” Maxwell said.  

“It was it was a pretty horrible couple of days. My wife was unbelievable through it all. 

“I shattered my fibula. So that one I think was the first snap I heard. It was snapped in half, but it also shattered through the bone. 

“There was a bit of a chip off the tibia as well (and) I ruptured all the ligaments on top of my foot as well … the syndesmosis ligaments, they’re all ruptured. I did a good job of it for such an innocuous thing.

“This is the frustrating thing about it all – I’ve done some dumb things on the field, some dumb things off the field, and I’ve never even come close to injuring myself (like this). 

“To do something so innocuously, it’s just frustrating. It was just a nothing incident. The amount of times that I’ve jumped into a pool and gone, ‘that was probably a bit more shallow than I thought’, and not had even a scratch, not even a bruise or anything, not even a rolled ankle. 

“It was just a little bit slippery, and all of a sudden there goes a couple of months.” 

It Just Feels Like I Make The Biggest Strides When I’m Working On My Red-ball Game: Glenn Maxwell

On the tour of India in February and March 2023, Maxwell was on track to be called up for a Test match and hoped to add to his seven appearances for his nation in the longest format. 

“Out of all the cricket I was going to miss, these were the two games that probably hurt the most,” Regarding Victoria’s home games this week against Tasmania and next week against NSW, which might have propelled him back into the Test running,  Glenn Maxwell said. 

“I was so excited. Even the couple of sessions that I had with (Victoria assistant coach) Ben Rohrer and the Vics in the couple of days after the last World Cup game – I was working on different things again, much the same as Steve Smith was working on different things behind the scenes. 

“It was just exciting again. I feel like I’m always improving when I’m playing this format, I feel like there’s always a space where my technique can get better. It just feels like I make the biggest strides when I’m working on my red-ball game. 

“Even Ben Rohrer – I spent I reckon 10 minutes with him and he picked up on things that I was working on in the pre-season that I might have gone away from a little bit just because I was working on a lot of T20 power hitting. 

“For him to pull me back into that technical mindset straightaway, it was a lot of fun. 

“That’s why missing these two games (hurts). I think these two games are going to be the hardest to watch, knowing they would have been a great opportunity to play red-ball cricket again.” 

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