diff --git a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/rules/physical/FlinkExpandConversionRule.scala b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/rules/physical/FlinkExpandConversionRule.scala
index a86b89ff80862..612d0eb820fe0 100644
--- a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/rules/physical/FlinkExpandConversionRule.scala
+++ b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/rules/physical/FlinkExpandConversionRule.scala
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ import org.apache.calcite.plan.volcano.AbstractConverter
 import org.apache.calcite.rel.{RelCollation, RelCollations, RelCollationTraitDef, RelNode}
 import org.apache.calcite.rel.RelDistribution.Type._
 
+import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
+
 /** Rule which converts an [[AbstractConverter]] to a RelNode which satisfies the target traits. */
 class FlinkExpandConversionRule(flinkConvention: Convention)
   extends RelOptRule(
@@ -68,6 +70,9 @@ class FlinkExpandConversionRule(flinkConvention: Convention)
       val toCollation = requiredTraits.getTrait(RelCollationTraitDef.INSTANCE)
       transformedNode = satisfyCollation(flinkConvention, transformedNode, toCollation)
     }
+    if (transformedNode == null) {
+      return
+    }
     checkSatisfyRequiredTrait(transformedNode, requiredTraits)
     call.transformTo(transformedNode)
   }
@@ -151,6 +156,12 @@ object FlinkExpandConversionRule {
       requiredCollation: RelCollation): RelNode = {
     val fromCollation = node.getTraitSet.getTrait(RelCollationTraitDef.INSTANCE)
     if (!fromCollation.satisfies(requiredCollation)) {
+      val fieldCount = node.getRowType.getFieldCount
+      val isValidCollation =
+        requiredCollation.getFieldCollations.asScala.forall(_.getFieldIndex < fieldCount)
+      if (!isValidCollation) {
+        return null
+      }
       val traitSet = node.getTraitSet.replace(requiredCollation).replace(flinkConvention)
       val sortCollation = RelCollationTraitDef.INSTANCE.canonize(requiredCollation)
       flinkConvention match {
diff --git a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/rules/physical/ExpandConversionRuleFixTest.java b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/rules/physical/ExpandConversionRuleFixTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e88bf5b34f41d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/rules/physical/ExpandConversionRuleFixTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.flink.table.planner.plan.rules.physical;
+
+import org.apache.flink.table.api.EnvironmentSettings;
+import org.apache.flink.table.api.TableEnvironment;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+public class ExpandConversionRuleFixTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testOrderByWithGlobalAggregate() {
+        EnvironmentSettings settings = EnvironmentSettings.newInstance().inBatchMode().build();
+        TableEnvironment tEnv = TableEnvironment.create(settings);
+        tEnv.getConfig().set("parallelism.default", "1");
+
+        tEnv.executeSql(
+                "CREATE TABLE MyTable ("
+                        + "  a INT,"
+                        + "  b STRING"
+                        + ") WITH ("
+                        + "  'connector' = 'datagen',"
+                        + "  'number-of-rows' = '5'"
+                        + ")");
+
+        String sql = "SELECT MAX(a) FROM (SELECT a, b FROM MyTable ORDER BY b ASC)";
+
+        tEnv.executeSql(sql).collect();
+    }
+}