Tim Paine (pictured with wife Bonnie) revealed coach Justin Langer begged him to stay on as captain of the Australian test team
The woman Tim Paine sent a series of lewd messages and an explicit photo to demanded an apology and $40,000 to cover her legal costs.
Paine quit as captain of the Australian cricket team on Friday after it was revealed he shared a text exchange with a staffer in 2017 that included an 'unsolicited' picture of his genitals and 'graphic sexual comments'.
An intermediary between the woman and Cricket Australia confirmed she reached out to them discreetly mid-2018 to first demand an apology, then wanted an apology and money to cover her legal fees - amounting to $40,000.
'I indicated that it was her intention to keep the matter private and that she was seeking an apology from Cricket Tasmania and her legal fees reimbursed,' Sean Mulcahy told The Age.
'I told her that given the impending Ashes series, the severe fallout from the South Africa incident and subsequent sacking of then captain Steve Smith, that she could possibly command a large fee for her story. Her ultimate decision was to let the matter go and move on.'
Paine quit as captain of the Australian cricket team on Friday after it was revealed he shared a text exchange with a young staffer in 2017 that included an' unsolicited' picture of his genitals
Mr Mulcahy said it was never the woman's ambition for the story to go public and denied she leaked it to the media last week.
'It was always my understanding that she never wanted this matter to become public,' he said.
'She turned down the possibility of a big pay day to tell the story, yet she chose to stay quiet. I don't believe she is the source of this story now being made public.'
Paine said in a tell-all interview with the Herald Sun alongside wife Bonnie that he feared the story would one day become public.
'I thought the issue was dealt with, but it always popped up around a big
