Stunning deception, Tim Paine!
Updated On: 20 May, 2021 10:32 AM IST | Mumbai | Michael Jeh
A satirical view of the Australian captain’s recent utterances of his team being distracted by India’s niggles and sideshows
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Australia skipper Tim Paine on Day Three of the fourth Test against India at the Gabba, Brisbane, earlier this year. Pic/Getty Images
The search to blame is always successful. This proverb may explain Tim Paine’s astonishing admission that his leadership led to the Australians being distracted by India`s “niggles” and “sideshows” in the recent Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Whilst on one hand defending his captaincy credentials, he also conceded that he allowed, maybe even encouraged, his charges to take their “eye off the ball.” Perhaps, he meant it literally - his eyes may have been so full of the red mist after his spiteful words to Ravichandran Ashwin in Sydney that he took his eyes off the ball and dropped a crucial catch next over. That moment of distraction probably cost Australia the series. Or maybe it was the missed stumping in Brisbane on Day Five when Rishabh Pant’s innings had yet to blossom.
My Sports Editor, the erudite Clayton Murzello, sent me the text of Paine`s recent comments whilst I was watching a documentary entitled See What You Made Me Do. It’s a film focused on domestic violence perpetrators who kept blaming their victims for their acts of violence, grown men who have grown accustomed to shifting blame for their failings. The irony of this coincidence was not lost on me.
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