'Didn't really understand why...,' Glenn Maxwell reveals incident when Virat Kohli blocked him on social media

Australia batter Glenn Maxwell has revealed that India batter and his Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) teammate Virat Kohli had blocked him on social media for mocking. The incident Maxwell mentioned was from the 2017 Border-Gavaskar Trophy in India.

"When I knew that I was going to RCB, Virat was the first guy to message me and welcome me to the team. When I turned up for the pre-IPL training camp, we obviously got chatting and spent a fair bit of time training together as you do. So I go to his social media, follow him. Didn't even think about it before that. Never really crossed my mind. I was like 'I can't find him'," Maxwell shared on the LiSTNR Sport podcast.

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Maxwell, during one of the Tests, had clutched his shoulder while fielding, imitating Virat Kohli who had done the same earlier during India'sfielding. The duo, however, now shares a great bond after Maxwell joined RCB in 2021.

"I'm sure he's on social media somewhere so I didn't think anything of it. Not really that maybe he wasn't savvy with Instagram. Didn't really understand why he wasn't coming up and then someone mentioned that he might have blocked you. That is the only way you're not able to find him. I was like surely not," he added.

"Then I went and asked him 'Have you blocked me on Instagram?' And he was like, 'Yeah probably. It was when you mocked me during that Test match. I think I got the sh*** and decided to block you. I was like 'yeah, that's fair enough'. So yeah, he ended up unblocking me, and we became great friends after that," the Aussie revealed.

Maxwell, before joining RCB, played for Punjab Kings (erstwhile Kings XI Punjab) where he and mentor Virender Sehwag had a fallout.