Melbourne: The Paine team on Sunday said Australian coach Justin Langer wanted him to remain as captain of the test, when he talked about “distress” and “embarrassed” of the gender scandal that swallowed his job.
The 36-year-old player suddenly stopped on Friday before the ashes against England during a series of obscene text messages with a female colleague in 2017 he had learned would be published.
Paine insisted on her decision to resign and she wasn’t pushed.
“It’s mine and myself,” he told Melbourne Herald Sun in an interview.
“It’s hard, but I know it’s the right thing to do.
I feel really broken hearted, but it’s all my actions, and I know resigning is the right call.” Read Alsosebdened that he felt the need to step down as captain: ACA backs team eliminating his support to the Paine team, the Australian Cricketers Association on Friday said it was “sad” that Wicketkeeper “felt the need to resign” as a test to resign “Captain.Paine said a lot people want me to stay, including langer.
“Jl (Justin Langer) told me that he was destroyed,” he said.
“He was quite firm so he wanted me to continue as captain, and once again, once I explained to him the reason I thought of resigning It was the best thing to do, he was with me along the way.
“I have a message from all my teammates saying they get my back, and that we all make mistakes, and we continue,” he added, no one had the previous knowledge of the incident.
The sexual graphics exchange series was investigated in 2018 but Paine was removed by the Cricket Tasmania and CA integrity unit from its violations in 2018 after a scandal that damaged the ball left the reputation of the team in ragged.
However, the CA chairman Richard Freudenstein, who was elected to the council in 2019, on Saturday admitted it was a wrong call and said Paine should have been accessed at that time.
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Paine, who married children, said the exchange of text messages began as normal communication with the Kricket Tasmania colleague “but then became a flirtatious exchange that should not exist”.
Asked why he took him to the next level, he answered: “Maybe it’s as simple as ignorance? Or an increased ego? Or feeling needed or desirable, flattering.” Or is it dangerous or risque? I don’t know, I’m not sure.
But I know I wish I didn’t, and it would be the life of regret I did.
“He denied the physical relationship with the woman.
On the night of Abu, the cricket world was in chaos.
Where is it now for the Paine team? Incident after her and Bonnie’s wife had worked through their problems.” I felt horrible, to be honest.
Even though Bonnie and I already knew all this for three years, to play it like this was truly troublesome, and annoying, and I was really embarrassed.
“I feel sick for Bonnie, and for my family more than anything.”