Paine points finger in explosive sexting claim

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Former Test skipper Tim Paine has accused Cricket Australia of "hanging maine retired to dry" implicit the sexting ungraded that saw him resign arsenic skipper.

Paine discontinue connected the eve of the 2021-22 Ashes series, erstwhile it became wide substance messages from 4 years antecedently were astir to beryllium made public.

In his newly-released autobiography, The Price Paid, Paine says the 2017 substance speech with a Cricket Tasmania worker was "consensual and ... it was unspeakably, unforgivably stupid."

Paine wrote that helium was "thrown into a satellite of fearfulness and panic" erstwhile CT brag Nick Cummins rang him successful June 2018 to pass him the present ex-employee had told CT she had intersexual messages and a representation sent by Paine.

A CA probe astatine the clip cleared Paine of a breach of the sport's codification of conduct.

"It was shameful connected a idiosyncratic level," Paine wrote.

"The existent unfortunate successful this was (wife) Bonnie, but professionally I was cleared."

The wicketkeeper said helium lived successful changeless fearfulness implicit the adjacent 3 years that the messages would go public, calling the interest "all-consuming."

"I behaved poorly and I treated radical poorly," helium wrote.

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"I was doubling down and I americium arsenic ashamed of that arsenic I americium of that substance exchange. More ashamed of it, actually.

"Looking backmost I was truthful anxious it made maine grumpy and agitated and I was atrocious to beryllium around."

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The communicative exploded successful November, 2021, erstwhile Paine's manager, James Henderson, rang to archer him the communicative would interruption the adjacent day.

"My worst nightmare was coming true," helium wrote.

Paine explained that helium took portion successful a telephone hook-up with CA brag Nick Hockley and an unnamed outer consultant, wherever it became wide helium nary longer had the enactment of the CA board.

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"The advisor past said that the champion mode to get up of the communicative was if I stood down arsenic captain," helium wrote.

"I was stunned by that, truthful was James. Who was this guy? What did helium cognize astir the circumstances? That was the archetypal clip anyone had mentioned maine resigning arsenic captain.

"Cricket Australia knew what had happened and successful my caput this feline didn't know, oregon worse than that, it was similar helium believed that I had sexually harassed her.

"Then Nick (Hockley) chimed in, saying however experienced this feline was and however helium thought I should perceive to his advice.

"I said, 'Do you privation maine to resign arsenic Test captain, Nick?'

"He couldn't springiness maine a consecutive answer, oregon wouldn't. He kept talking astir successful circles.

"It was becoming evident what Cricket Australia wanted me to bash but they didn't person the courageousness to accidental it themselves, they were letting their hired advisor tally the show."

Paine ended the call, and successful a consequent treatment that nighttime with Henderson told him helium would beryllium quitting arsenic Test skipper.

"I laic awake the remainder of the night. I was truthful disappointed by this. I hadn't seen it coming," helium wrote.

"I felt they were driven by the request to support their image, they'd got successful idiosyncratic to look aft them and he'd decided that I had to beryllium sacrificed to prevention them, they were hanging maine retired to dry."

After the tearful property league wherever helium announced his resignation, Paine said helium turned disconnected the vigor successful the car "and I reckon it stayed disconnected for the remainder of the summer."

"When you are the news, you don't privation to perceive it," helium wrote.

"I kept my headdress pulled down and made definite I didn't marque oculus interaction with anyone arsenic I drove.

"I felt similar a fugitive and I was going to unrecorded similar that for a agelong clip to come."

Paine said the concern astatine location with woman Bonnie was "awful" and helium wasn't eating oregon sleeping.

He played a Second XI lucifer soon aft stepping down arsenic captain, but "there was nary mode I could look people."

"Every time was worse than the 1 earlier and arsenic the crippled continued I realised that I was fooling myself," helium wrote.

"At 1 point, portion waiting to bat, I'd locked myself successful the toilet cubicle and cried my eyes out.

"I was nary good."

It was astatine that constituent helium realised determination was "no mode I could play Test cricket."

"I was idiosyncratic who was a small cynical astir intelligence health issues and sport," helium wrote.

"Sometimes erstwhile radical pulled retired of games citing intelligence health, it confused maine due to the fact that I'd beryllium spending clip with these radical but they seemed fine, past erstwhile it happens to you ... I couldn't power my thoughts, it was shocking.

"No substance however galore times I tried to propulsion myself together, my caput conscionable fell apart."

Paine worked with a psychiatrist and turned to moving successful an effort to cope, noting "the bottommost had fallen retired of my satellite and I was successful freefall."

"I americium a amended idiosyncratic now, a bully person," helium wrote.

"We've each made mistakes, but the hubby and begetter I've started to go is worlds distant from the 1 I was.

"I've redirected each the vigor I enactment into captaining my state and getting the champion retired of myself into my idiosyncratic life.

"This has opened my eyes. Cricket's important but it is not arsenic important arsenic that."

Paine played 33 of his 35 Test matches aft the substance speech took spot connected the eve of his callback to the squad successful 2017, aft much than 7 years retired of the side.

He present says helium would person forgone the 2nd portion of his vocation if helium could alteration the past.

"I don't privation to marque immoderate excuses - it was dumb, it was wrong, it was a breach of spot with my woman - but however was I truthful thoughtless, truthful self-indulgent?" helium wrote.

"Why would I instrumentality specified a anserine risk? I deliberation possibly it was conscionable a mode of escaping from each the unit I was under, it wasn't that I was connected a precocious astir getting a 2nd accidental astatine Test cricket, it was a mode to flight the world of that, the accent of it.

"I'd person fixed up that 2nd accidental if I could person my clip implicit again."

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