Tim Paine, former Australia captain, is ready to return to domestic cricket following the infamous ‘sexting’ incident. Tim Paine is a veteran Australian wicketkeeper-batter. He will return to local cricket 10 months after being force to leave. He was a Test captain when the ‘sexting’ incident Happened.
Tim Paine is a former Australia captain. He is ready to return to Australian First-Class cricket following a ten-month hiatus due to his role in the infamous ‘sexting’ affair, in which he was accuse by a receptionist at Cricket Tasmania of sending filthy text messages dating back to 2017. Cricket Australia (CA) conducted an investigation and found Paine guilty.
Meanwhile, the experienced wicketkeeper-batter has been pick to Tasmania’s side for this week’s Sheffield Shield match against Queensland in Brisbane. It remains to be observe whether Tim Paine will take advantage of his second chance.
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Jeff Vaughan expressed his thoughts: “It was quite unanimous”
“Firstly his name was on the table for one-day cricket and then he was on the table last week when we selected (the Shield). And it was quite unanimous that everyone wanted one of the world’s best wicketkeepers into our side.”
Coach Jeff Vaughan told australia.com.au.
”We have absolute faith and trust in Tim and his preparation. Physically he is probably in the greatest spot of his playing career, emotionally he is sound. He has been training really well with us the last two months. We have got full faith in his wicketkeeping skillset so he has ticked all of the boxes.”
Vaughan added.
Tim Paine was expected to represent Australia in the 2021/22 Ashes before the sexting controversy prompted him to resign as captain and take an indefinite vacation from the game. Pat Cummins was immediately named Australia’s red-ball captain, and he guided the hosts to a convincing 4-0 victory.
Since then, Australia has done extremely well in Test cricket under Cummins’ captaincy, topping the ICC Test team rankings as well as the WTC points table. The Australians appear to be heavy favorites to reach the final of the ICC World Test Championship next year.
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