The infamous England cricket team fans group, the Barmy Army has taken a tough jibe at Australian cricket after the latest sexting scandal has rocked them on November 19, 2021. Test captain Tim Paine resigned from his post after being investigated for sending lewd sexts to a female coworker in 2017.
Tim Paine, who was the poster boy for the new and refresh Australian cricket after the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa in 2018, was found involved in sending pics of his genital to a former female co-worker in Tasmania cricket four years ago.
Interestingly, Cricket Australia and Tasmania Cricket Board conducted a private investigation and exonerated Paine of any wrongdoing back then.
But in an emotional and tearful press conference at the Blundstone Arena in Hobart on Friday (November 19), Paine announced his decision to quit Test captaincy after he was named in a News Corp report as being at the center of the case of sending lewd messages and sexually explicit pics to a female coworker in 2017.
Paine was the face of CA’s attempt of rebuilding the Australian team after Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft admitted to tampering with the ball during the 2018 Cape Town Test in South Africa and received one-year and 9-month bans respectively.
Paine took over as captain and led the team since then, and was named captain for the upcoming Ashes 2021-22 beginning on December 8 onwards.
This new humiliation of Australian cricket thanks to Tim Paine led to Barmy Army sharing a collage of Warner, Smith, and Paine crying along with an Aussie fan in tears with the caption, “Spot the difference.”
