The woman interacted with Paine on and off for about a year, and both parties were flirtatious in the leaked messages.īut conversation took a sudden turn with the cricketer's explicit messages just before she resigned from Cricket Tasmania. Paine, 36, sent a photo of his penis to a female co-worker along with a stream of lewd text messages I'm sorry for any damage that this does to the reputation of our sport.' 'I'm deeply sorry for the hurt and pain that I have caused to my wife, my family, and to the other party. 'On reflection, my actions in 2017 do not meet the standard of an Australian cricket captain, or the wider community. 'However, I recently became aware that this private text exchange was going to become public. 'We thought this incident was behind us and that I could focus entirely on the team, as I have done for the last three or four years. 'I spoke to my wife and family at the time and am enormously grateful for their forgiveness and support. 'Although exonerated, I deeply regretted this incident at the time, and still do today,' he said on Friday. His wife Bonnie, whom he has been married to for five years, was also aware of the messages but chose to stick by him. Paine said at his press conference that he was exonerated by these investigations, which found he did not breach the code of conduct. 'However, because of the consensual nature of the actions it was determined that no further action was required or appropriate.'īonnie is a cosmetic surgery aesthetic nurse at Sanctum Medical Aesthetics in Hobart 'Cricket Tasmania clearly does not condone this type of behaviour and addressed the matter directly with Tim Paine,' he said. Mr Gaggin said the organisation investigated the complaint as soon as it was received but 'determined the interaction was consensual, private, occurred on the one occasion only, was between mature adults and was not repeated'. Those charges are still before the courts.Ĭricket Tasmania chairman Andrew Gaggin said the woman was earlier sacked by the organisation, but did not bring the messages up at the time. However, the complaints were only made about seven months later when the woman was charged with stealing. She is said to have been taken aback by the comments and pornographic photo, which she found offensive. The woman complained in 2018 about 'Mr Paine's sexually explicit, unwelcome and unsolicited photograph of his genitals in addition to the graphic sexual comments'. The trio was caught on camera using concealed sandpaper to rough up the ball during the tour of South Africa.Ĭricket Australia is believed to have found out about the sexting in June 2018 and launched an investigation, along with Cricket Tasmania. Paine was brought in as the saviour of Australian cricket after captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner were suspended, along with opener Cameron Bancroft. The lewd messages were sent on November 22 and 23, 2017, the eve and morning of the first Ashes Test at the Gabba in Brisbane.Ĭricket Australia was not aware of the messages until after Paine was appointed Test captain in March 2018 in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal.
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