'Appalling' Paine treatment sparks cricket war

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Cricket Tasmania has launched an bonzer onslaught connected Cricket Australia, slamming the governing assemblage for its attraction of erstwhile skipper Tim Paine.

Paine connected Friday dropped a bombshell successful quitting the Test captaincy, arsenic a sexting ungraded from 2018 came to light.

A erstwhile Cricket Tasmania worker had accused Paine of sending her sexually explicit substance messages and a photograph of his penis. Cricket Australia had been made alert of the allegations successful aboriginal 2018 but Paine past week got upwind the ungraded was astir to beryllium picked up by media, and helium resigned.

Cricket Tasmania, though, released a connection contiguous firing some barrels astatine the country's apical cricket administrators.

"In conversations I person had successful caller days it is wide that the choler amongst the Tasmanian cricket assemblage and wide nationalist is palpable," Cricket Tasmania president Andrew Gaggin said.

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"Tim Paine has been a beacon for Australian cricket implicit the past 4 years and instrumental successful salvaging the estimation of the nationalist squad aft the calamity of Cape Town (ball tampering scandal).

"Yet, astatine a clip erstwhile CA should person supported Tim, helium was evidently regarded arsenic dispensable. The attraction afforded to the Australian Test skipper by Cricket Australia has been appalling, and the worst since Bill Lawry implicit 50 years ago.

"The Cricket Tasmania committee reaffirmed its presumption that Paine should not person been enactment successful a presumption wherever helium felt the request to resign implicit an incidental that was determined by an autarkic enquiry astatine the clip to not beryllium a breach of the Code of Conduct and was a consensual and backstage speech that occurred betwixt 2 mature adults and was not repeated."

Paine returned from cervix country yesterday and took six catches down the stumps for Tasmania's 2nd XI.

The pursuing time helium was retired lbw for 1.

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