Current leadership would have sacked Paine over sexting, says Cricket Australia chair

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SYDNEY: Tim Paine would have been sacked as Australia Test captain three years ago over the sexually explicit messages he sent to a female colleague had the current leadership of Cricket

he sent to a female colleague had the current leadership of Cricket Australia been in place, chair Richard Freudenstein said on Saturday .

"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," Freudenstein told a video news conference. Both felt that Cricket Australia's code of conduct and integrity processes were robust, and Freudenstein pointed out that there had been changes since 2018, including the addition of player education over text messaging.

"We put in place a process for finding a new captain that was going to take place over the summer in anticipation that Tim would one day retire," he said.

 

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