Was a mistake to keep Tim Paine: Cricket Australia chairman
Updated On: 21 November, 2021 08:02 AM IST | Sydney | AFP
Allowing Tim to continue as captain in 2018 sent a wrong message of CA accepting such behaviour, says present chief Freudenstein
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Wicketkeeper-batsman Tim Paine. Pic/AFP
Cricket Australia chairman Richard Freudenstein on Saturday admitted the governing body should have axed Tim Paine as Test captain in 2018 after a sexting scandal that “sent the wrong message that this kind of behaviour is acceptable.”
Paine abruptly quit on Friday, just weeks ahead of the Ashes series against England, over a series of lewd text messages with a female colleague in 2017 that he had learnt was about to be made public.
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