sport news Australia cricket chiefs admit Tim Paine should have been sacked three years

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Tim Paine should have been sacked as Test captain three years ago, Australian cricket chiefs were forced to admit yesterday.

Paine, who turns 37 on the opening day of the Ashes next month, quit on Friday following revelations that he’d sent indecorous text messages to a female colleague at his state team Tasmania in 2017. The ‘sexting’ episode was investigated the following year.

‘While I cannot speak about the decision-making in 2018, what I can say is that, faced with the same circumstances and all the relevant information about this matter, Cricket Australia would not make the same decisions today,’ Richard Freudenstein, chair of Cricket Australia, said.