Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has revealed he did not sleep for two days because of the agonising pain he suffered following a freak injury that snapped his fibula in half earlier this month.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The 34-year-old was rushed to hospital where he underwent a successful surgery and has started to slowly recover, but the veteran cricketer has said that initially the pain was unbearable.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Despite the setback, Maxwell has not given up hope and is keen to feature in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on Australia's tour of India next year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"I probably didn't sleep for two days while I was in agony," Maxwell was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au. "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."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Detailing the circumstances that led to the grievous injury, Maxwell said he was attending a friend's party earlier this month in Melbourne when he slipped on some synthetic grass in the rain before being rushed to hospital.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"One of my mates, who was also one of my school teachers, we were laughing about something and I pretended to chase him off somewhere," said Maxwell. "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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"It (fibula) 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'.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"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).<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"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 (of recovery)."<\/p>\r\n\r\n