Regardless, Tim Paine alleges he saw a South African player pulling apart the seam of the ball in the following Test & it left him furious.
Tim Paine : Ball Tampering | Allegations | is married
Timothy David Paine is an Australian cricketer and a former captain of the Australia national cricket team in Test cricket.
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Timothy David Paine
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| Born | 8 December 1984 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Batting | Right-handed |
A right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper, he plays for the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket and was the captain of the Hobart Hurricanes before his selection for Australia in the 2017–18 Ashes series.
A product of the Australian Cricket Academy, Paine became the youngest-ever contracted player in Australia, when he received a rookie contract with Tasmania at 16 years of age.
Tim paine ball Tampering
Tim Paine has accused South Africa of ball tampering in the Test match immediately after Australian cricket was rocked by the sandpaper-gate scandal, claiming the act was covered up by match broadcasters.
Paine made the explosive claims in his autobiography The Paid Price, with the former Test captain becoming the first player lift the lid on the 2018 Cape Town Test in a tell-all book.
Paine denies any suggestion of a team meeting around the plan for Cameron Bancroft to use sandpaper on the ball during the third Test of the series against South Africa.
And he says he was stunned and his heart sank as replays showed Bancroft hiding the sandpaper in his pants before being spoken to by umpires.
“I was thinking ‘what the f**k’,” Paine wrote. “A sense of dread came over us all.”
In a lengthy chapter on the 2018 tour, Paine went to great lengths to point out that ball tampering was commonplace in cricket and that it was the sport’s dirty little secret. Faf du Plessis, who was South Africa captain at the time, makes similar claims in his upcoming book.
But Paine conceded using sandpaper was “next level” and “shameful”, with traditional tampering usually via means such as throwing the ball into the ground.
Allegations
Tim Paine has accused South Africa of ball tampering in the Test match immediately after Australian cricket was rocked by the sandpaper-gate scandal.
Paine made the explosive claims in his autobiography The Price Paid, with the former Test captain becoming the first player to lift the lid on the 2018 Cape Town Test in a tell-all book.
Paine denies any suggestion of a team meeting around the plan for Cameron Bancroft to use sandpaper on the ball during the third Test of the series against South Africa.
“I was thinking ‘what the fuck?’,” Paine wrote. “A sense of dread came over us all.”
In a lengthy chapter on the 2018 tour, Paine alleged that ball tampering was commonplace in cricket and that it was the sport’s dirty little secret. But he conceded using sandpaper was “next level” and “shameful”, with traditional tampering usually via means such as throwing the ball into the ground.
Regardless, he alleges he saw a South African player pulling apart the seam of the ball in the following Test and says it left him furious.
“I saw it happen in the fourth Test of that series,” Paine alleges in the book. “Think about that. After everything that had happened in Cape Town, after all the headlines and bans and carry on.
Is married
Bonnie Maggs, who married Paine in 2016 and has two children with him, said as a family they had “put the matter to bed” and moved on in life.
Tim Paine’s wife has taken to social media for the first time since her husband announced his resignation as captain of the Australia cricket team last week.
Bonnie Paine, whose maiden name was Maggs, took to Instagram, posting a story of four children and a dog playing outside on a slip and slide out in the sunshine.
Also The mother-of-two, 36, captioned the story: “Brighter days”.
It is the first time the WAG has posted on social media since her husband of five years made an emotional announcement after a series of lewd texts between himself and a former Cricket Tasmania staff member from 2017 surfaced.
And Paine, 36, insisted it was his sole decision to quit ahead of the Ashes Test and was not pushed out.
The sporting star called a press conference last Friday, within an hour of a report from News Corp revealing the wicketkeeper-batter sent a “d**k pic” and lewd messages to the female employee.
But The Tasmanian sobbed as he made his announcement, saying he “deeply regretted” the incident.