Maxwell will also still be in Melbourne due to his upcoming wedding. He explained to the host broadcaster Fox Cricket the third T20I against Sri Lanka in Canberra that the clash was unavoidable due to the constant schedule changes, despite consulting Cricket Australia.
"Originally when I organised the dates with CA there was a two-week gap where I could potentially have it," Maxwell said. "So when I sorted that out I was pretty happy that I wasn't going to be missing in any series. 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."