2017: Having made his Test debut in 2010, Paine bought an opportunity to put on the Baggy Green once more after six years in November 2017 for the primary Ashes Test in Brisbane. As it has come to gentle now, this was when he had despatched lewd textual content messages and {a photograph} to a feminine worker of Cricket Tasmania (CT).
— Paine has mentioned that his actions in 2017 don’t meet the usual of an Australian cricket captain. They absolutely met these requirements to permit him to guide the facet from March 2018 to November 2021.
2018: In March, following incumbent Steve Smith’s ban within the aftermath of the Cape Town ball-tampering controversy, Paine was named Australia captain. Around the identical time, the CT worker, who Paine had sex-texted a 12 months again, would face expenses of theft. She would inform Cricket Australia authorities in June that she was offended by “Mr Paine’s sexually-explicit, unwelcome and unsolicited photograph of his genitals in addition to the graphic sexual comments.”
Cricket Tasmania acknowledged on Friday that the allegations had been delivered to its consideration solely when formal expenses of theft had been laid in opposition to the lady following her termination. The Tasmanian board had performed an investigation, which “determined that no further action was required or appropriate” as a result of “of the consensual nature of the actions.”
— Around the identical time, Australia coach Justin Langer was propounding his concept of elite honesty. “You can lie to everyone else, but you can’t lie to yourself. So that’s elite honesty to yourself,” Langer had expounded. “And also, the Aussie way I know it is to look a bloke in the eye, look your sister or you mum in the eyes, and tell them the truth and be happy to get some truth back, so that’s elite honesty.”
2021: Paine resigns after studies say the Herald Sun newspaper bought particulars of Paine’s 2017 textual content.
— In the assertion, the Australian cricket board mentioned: “CA does not condone this type of language or behaviour. Despite the mistake he made, Tim has been an exceptional leader since his appointment and the board thanks him for his distinguished service.” Back in 2018, CA’s Integrity Unit investigation had concluded that Paine had dedicated no breach of the board’s code of conduct.
