“AFFECTED MY FAMILY MORE THAN MYSELF”: MAXWELL REFLECTS ON ALCOHOL-RELATED INCIDENT
Maverick batsman Glenn Maxwell expressed gratitude towards the Australian cricket hierarchy for their “remarkable support” following an alcohol-related incident that led to him being unconscious at an Adelaide pub on January 19.
The 35-year-old had to be hospitalized via ambulance after the incident, which he described as “less than ideal.”
“I think probably it affected my family a little bit more than it affected me,” Maxwell stated on Sunday (February 11) after achieving his fifth T20I century.
Maxwell had been excluded from the ODI squad against the West Indies and had a week off when the incident occurred during a concert by Brett Lee’s band ‘Six And Out’.
“I knew I had that week off,” Maxwell mentioned.
“And obviously that incident was less than ideal, and the timing.
But I had that week off, I knew I had that week off away from the game.
“And I came back and got back into my running, my gym program, and it felt really good and refreshed once I got back.
And it’s all been focused on getting myself ready for this [T20] series and what’s to come.”
This incident is the latest in a series of recent mishaps for the Australian all-rounder.
After the T20 World Cup at home in 2022, he broke his foot during a house party, and at the recent World Cup in India, he fell off a golf cart and suffered a partial concussion.
Head coach Andrew McDonald, in a radio interview with SEN, urged Maxwell to make wise choices off the field to prolong his career.
Maxwell mentioned that the incident prompted no reflection on his part but expressed gratitude for the support he received.
“I just moved on pretty quickly.
I was back in training on Monday so I was pretty good.
The coach, Bails, everyone really, they have been outstanding,” he said after scoring 120 not out from 55 balls against West Indies.
Incidentally, Maxwell was supposed to be rested for Sunday’s game in Adelaide but convinced the management otherwise, ultimately equalling Rohit Sharma’s record of scoring five T20I hundreds.
He revealed having a premonition about scoring a hundred and fulfilled it, becoming the first player batting at No.4 or below to score four centuries in the format.
“I woke up this morning and I just had a funny feeling,” Maxwell said.
“I don’t get it very often, and especially batting middle-order you don’t get it often.
But I just got a good look at their [West Indies] attack last game in Hobart, and felt like I got a good read of what they were bowling.
“I was disappointed getting out there in the same sort of scenario – short square boundaries with the ground quite similar, and another good wicket.
So I felt like I’d missed out again, and I said ‘you know what, I can’t let this opportunity slip’.
“I said when I arrived [at Adelaide Oval] ‘I feel like someone’s getting a hundred tonight’, and when I woke up this morning I felt like I was getting one.
But you’ve still got to get the time and opportunity, and the time was probably perfect.”
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