Star Aussie all rounder Glenn Maxwell has signed with Washington Freedom to play thr Major League Cricket 2024 along with his teammates - Travis Head and Steve Smith under the coach Ricky Ponting.

The 35 year old flamboyant all rounder doesn't want to take rest rather he chose to sign with Washington Freedom to play the upcoming MLC. Maxwell is currently playing for Royal Challengers Bangaluru in the IPL and will be one of the forces of the upcoming T20 world cup for Australia. Now he has chosen to continue his 2024 playing after signing Washington.

Australia doesn't have any international schedule aftermath of the T20 world cup until a white-ball tour to their arch-rivals England in September. Maxwell will be playing for Washington Freedom with his own Aussie teammates, Steve Smith and Travis Head who recently have joined the franchise. All of them will have Aussie great Ricky Ponting as their coach.

"It's a tournament that I watched from afar last year and was extremely excited about hopefully playing this tournament one day and luckily enough the timings have aligned this year," Maxwell said. "I've been speaking to Ricky Ponting and a few other players a fair bit over the last little period and certainly extremely excited to get stuck in.

"Having Travis and Steve there and Ricky, three guys who I'm extremely familiar with, I think that sort of probably tipped me over the edge. You sort of um and ah about that time of the year about where you're going to be and whether you take the time off, whether you play the Hundred or what you might do and I think just having those couple of Aussies there and I think the opportunity to be a part of something really big in MLC and grow something is really exciting as well."

However Maxwell isn’t having a great time with for RCB in the IPL, he scored only 32 runs after playing 6 innings at a dismal average of 5.33 and took a break from Cricket for his mental health.

Maxwell joins Head, Smith, Adam Zampa (Los Angeles Knight Riders), Spencer Johnson (Knight Riders), Tim David (MI New York), Matt Short (San Franciso Unicorns) and Jake Fraser-McGurk (San Franciso Unicorns) as confirmed Australian signings for the second season of MLC