Paine's emotional farewell to cricket career

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Former Australian Test skipper Tim Paine has retired from each forms of home cricket, rounding retired a turbulent 18-year career.

The quality was made authoritative with Paine receiving a defender of honour arsenic helium near the tract astatine the Bellerive Oval pursuing Tasmania's gully with Queensland successful the last circular of the Sheffield Shield.

While Paine is yet to marque a nationalist announcement, it was reportedly made known to his Tasmania teammates that this would beryllium his past archetypal people match.

While Paine did not talk to reporters aft the match, Tasmania skipper Jordan Silk confirmed the wicketkeeper-batter's retirement.

"He's been a phenomenal player," Silk said.

"I deliberation it's astir 22 years of nonrecreational cricket. It's an unthinkable effort to person the longevity that he's had.

"He's surely going to beryllium missed down the stumps. I'm definite a batch of guys who are playing present volition accidental that determination volition ne'er beryllium different keeper arsenic bully arsenic Tim Paine successful Australia. So we've been incredibly blessed down here. And we privation him each the champion successful immoderate helium chooses going forward."

Paine finishes his vocation having played 154 first-class matches including 35 Tests and 95 Sheffield Shield games.

He was promoted to the Test captaincy successful the aftermath of the 2018 ball-tampering saga, and led Australia successful 23 Test matches and 5 ODIs betwixt 2018 and 2021.

Paine resigned arsenic skipper connected the eve of the 2021-22 Ashes bid pursuing the nationalist merchandise of explicit substance messages from 4 years earlier.

In his autobiography which was published past year, The Price Paid, Paine said the 2017 substance speech with a Cricket Tasmania worker was "unspeakably (and) unforgivably stupid."

Paine was subsequently dropped by Cricket Australia and Cricket Tasmania, however, contempt being off-contract, played six much first-class matches for Tasmania crossed the 2022-23 season.

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