Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has confirmed his unavailability for Australia's tour of Pakistan, starting from March 4.
Wedding bells will soon ring for Maxwell as the cricketer is set to marry his fiance Vini Raman in late March this year. With his wedding and international assignment clashing, Maxwell had no choice but to opt-out of the upcoming Pakistan tour.
Notably, the 33-year-old is likely to miss the opening matches of the forthcoming IPL edition as he will still be in Melbourne for his wedding during that period. The Aussie is in contention to lead the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) as the franchise's former skipper Virat Kohli announced his resignation last season.
Giving details of his wedding plans, Maxwell said that the change in Australia's cricketing schedule led to this unavoidable situation.
"Originally when I organised the dates with CA there was a two-week gap where I could potentially have it. So when I sorted that out I was pretty happy that I wasn’t going to be missing in any series," Maxwell told Fox Cricket.
"And then I came to the [CA] contract meeting midway through last year and they said well this is [when] the Pakistan series [is on] and I thought well obviously that’s changed since the last conversation we had," he added.
Meanwhile, the Australian team will be visiting Pakistan after 24 years for a tour, which consists of a three-match Test series, followed by three ODIs and a one-off T20I match.
Maxi was also one of the three players retained by RCB along with Kohli and Mohd. Siraj. During the recently concluded IPL Auctions, RCB picked several quality overseas cricketers, namely, Faf du Plessis, Josh Hazlewood, David Willey and many others.