A 50th birthday party, an impromptu game of tag, a slip and fall, then two days of agony. This is basically how Glenn Maxwell summed up the bizarre sequence of events that saw him break his leg, requiring surgery and putting him out of action for up to three months.
Maxwell explained how a bit of rain on a Saturday night in Melbourne two weekends ago, on the eve of the Twenty20 World Cup final between England and Pakistan, helped ensure the slide that has ruined his native summer.
Glenn Maxwell talks about his broken leg.
“It was so innocuous,” Maxwell said in a video news release. “I was in a 50 with a couple of my old friends from Fitzroy Doncaster, we all had our wives there, and one of my mates who was also one of my schoolteachers, we were laughing about something.
“I almost pretended to chase him somewhere, and outside it was raining a little bit and they didn’t actually have a grassy backyard, they had synthetic grass, so it was just a little, little area around the corner, and I’d guess they both we took about three or four steps around, and they both slipped at the same time, and my foot got a little bit stuck, and he landed unfortunately at a very bad angle and landed directly on my leg, and just snapped.
“I heard and felt every part of it, and it was pretty painful. I was yelling a little bit and he was like ‘please tell me you’re kidding, please tell me you’re kidding’ and then I went into this ultimate shocked calm, ‘I just broke my leg, I’m pretty sure we both bones are broken, I don’t think I should move, can you bring my wife please…?
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