Glenn Maxwell claims his relationship with alcohol has been unfairly characterised but takes responsibility for missteps including a mysterious night of fear in India.
Opening up to this masthead to mark the release of his new book The Showman, the star all-rounder conceded he had deserved criticism at times for some of his after-dark activities but that drinking had been overstated as a factor in a string of high-profile incidents in which he has come a cropper.
In the space of 15 months from late 2022, Maxwell broke his leg at a friend’s birthday party, missed an ODI World Cup match after falling off a golf cart in India and was hospitalised after a day of golfing and drinking in Adelaide.
While accepting in the book that the “loose-unit narrative about me is impossible to disperse,” Maxwell said commentary about his lifestyle and professionalism had been over the top.
“Do I feel it’s been unfair at times? Yeah. There’s certain incidents when I’ve stuffed up, that’s fair. But when I haven’t stuffed up and it gets judged like that, that’s where I get a bit frustrated,” Maxwell said.
“I find it unfair that anything that happens away from the game of cricket, it gets related to alcohol. That’s what I find frustrating.
“Like if I go for a coffee and slip over on the side of the road and someone goes, ‘Oh Maxwell, another alcohol-related incident, falls down a drainpipe,’ it’s like well it’s 10 in the morning, it’s been raining.
“Was he out the night before? How many drinks did he have the night before? Then it’s all of a sudden like, ‘Well, I had one.’ So it is alcohol-related. 스포츠토토사이트 Where does it stop. That’s where I get a little bit frustrated. I’m no different to any other cricketer. I pick and choose my times that I can try to be at my best for game day, training days and all that other sort of stuff. To say that I’ve done it to the detriment of my career at any stage I think is unfair.”
