Glenn Maxwell reveals how he broke his leg in a freak accident

Glenn Maxwell said a bit of backyard horseplay with an old schoolteacher at a house party in Melbourne led to the broken leg that wiped out the Australian all-rounder’s summer. A bed-ridden Maxwell said in a video posted on Cricket Australia’s website that his former schoolteacher had fallen on his leg when they both slipped over on a patch of wet artificial grass in their friend’s small backyard. Glenn Maxwell reveals on the #UnplayablePodcast the gruesome details behind the freak accident at a birthday party that resulted in a broken fibula, chipped tibia and multiple ruptured ligaments 😱 Check out the full interview where you get your podcasts 🎧 pic.twitter.com/dH2dsDvFOT — cricket.com.au November 22, 2022 “I just got my foot stuck a little bit, and he fell, unfortunately at a really bad angle and landed straight on my leg. “I was screaming a bit, and he was like, ‘please tell me you’re joking, please tell me you’re joking’.” Maxwell revealed he lay prone in the backyard for nearly an hour for fear of making the injury worse, with friends putting a tent over him to shelter him from the rain before driving him to the hospital.