Tim Paine’s brother lashes out at Cricket Australia for double standards following Ashes win

Australia defeated England in the Ashes by 4-0 after winning the fifth Test by 146 runs. The English batters struggled to score runs in both innings. While chasing a target of 270 runs, the team could make only 124 runs. The last nine wickets fell for just 56 runs and no batter could score over 40 runs.

Former Australian captain Tim Paine’s brother Nick Paine has said that Cricket Australia didn’t do justice with his brother. The 2021-22 Ashes was predicted to be the last for Paine, who was appointed the captain of the Test side in 2018 after the ball-tampering saga. Nick believed that his brother deserved a proper send-off during the fifth Test, which was played at his home ground.

Tim resigned from his position last year following the sexting scandal. It was revealed that Tim shared an explicit image of himself along with some inappropriate text messages with a co-worker in 2017. After his resignation, Pat Cummins was appointed the captain of the Australian Test team. Nick took to social media to slam Cricket Australia for their handling of the situation.

“Pretty hard to watch this knowing full well that one of the key people in resurrecting the reputation of Cricket Australia and this team was shafted by that very same organisation because of a personal mistake he made nearly 4 years ago,” Nick said as quoted by news.com.au.

“He deserved this send off on his home ground in front of his family, friends and his long time supporters.”

Tim Paine never got an opportunity to play a Test match in his home ground

Tim, who played 35 Test matches for Australia never played a match for Australia in his home ground despite being the captain of the side for over three years. Nick further mentioned that his brother was given clearance after a thorough inquiry but certain players were welcomed with open arms despite committing mistakes.

“He deserved this send off on his home ground in front of his family, friends and his long time supporters.

“It’s just a real shame that one mistake in life (that person was cleared and exonerated by an inquiry) can end a kids dream but then for others who make them, they come back and it’s all OK and in a way forgotten.

“Double standards from an organisation that clearly doesn’t have the back of its people.

“A local boy on his local ground in front of his people. Gut wrenching stuff.”