Tim Paine has fired again at Cricket Australia executives by saying they “held a gun to my head” to to drive him to stop as Check captain final yr.

Paine’s new e book, The Worth Paid, lifts the lid on how CA initially cleared him of wrongdoing in what he described as a consensual alternate with a Cricket Tasmania worker earlier than then doing a U-turn when a PR marketing consultant really useful he ought to be faraway from the captaincy.

He additionally turned the tables on South Africa, accusing them of ball tampering within the match after the notorious Sandpapergate incident of 2018. 

In excerpts from the e book revealed by NewsCorp – the identical media organisation which broke the story of his sexting scandal which led to his resignation within the lead-up to final yr’s Ashes sequence, Paine accused CA chief govt Nick Hockley of missing the braveness to sack him.

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“We did a cellphone hyperlink which included this individual they’d employed from a public relations agency who’d apparently given recommendation to the board previously,” Paine wrote.

Tim Paine on day one among his return to first-class cricket with Tasmania. (Picture by Matt Roberts/Getty Photos)

“He stated that he’d been within the newspaper sport for a few years and this was going to be large and wouldn’t go away. I discovered it very unusual that this individual, somebody I’d by no means met and somebody who didn’t work at Cricket Australia, took the lead within the name whereas Nick, the chief govt, took a again seat.

“The marketing consultant then stated that the easiest way to get forward of the story was if I stood down as captain. I used to be shocked by that.

“Who was this man? What did he know concerning the circumstances? That was the primary time anybody had talked about me resigning as captain. There was no method I used to be doing that. I knew what had occurred. Cricket Australia knew what had occurred and in my thoughts this man didn’t know, or worse than that, it was like he believed that I had sexually harassed her.”

Paine added that Hockley then chimed in to say the veteran keeper ought to take heed of the marketing consultant’s recommendation.

“I stated, ‘Would you like me to resign as Check captain, Nick?’ He couldn’t give me a straight reply, or wouldn’t. He saved speaking round in circles.”

“It was turning into apparent what Cricket Australia needed me to do however they didn’t have the braveness to say it themselves, they had been letting their employed marketing consultant run the present.

“They’d held a gun to my head. I couldn’t go on with out their assist.”

Paine is up entrance within the e book that he doesn’t need sympathy from anybody for his actions which he described as a egocentric indiscretion which has had lasting ramifications for his household life.

He took an prolonged break from cricket following the revelations late final yr and has solely lately returned to first-class cricket with Tasmania, enjoying within the Sheffield Protect. 

His possibilities of returning to the Check staff had been slim anyway however after making these explosive allegations, it’s exhausting to see Paine ever being recalled even when present gloveman Alex Carey was unavailable.

He performed the final of his 35 Checks within the loss to India on the Gabba at first of final yr and provided that he’ll flip 38 subsequent month, Paine will in all probability retire from all cricket inside the subsequent yr.

Whereas once more taking purpose at CA for hanging David Warner, Cameron Bancroft and Steve Smith out to dry for the Sandpapergate scandal, he claimed he noticed the Proteas tampering with the ball within the fourth Check of the sequence when Paine was rapidly put in as skipper when Smith was banned.

He stated claims that the whole Australian staff was concerned within the ball-tampering scheme had been “garbage” and pointed the finger on the Proteas.

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“Everybody on the market was shocked once they seemed up on the large display screen and noticed Cameron Bancroft with a chunk of sandpaper in his hand. I used to be shocked. All of us had been.

“My coronary heart sank, I used to be considering, ‘What the f—?’ A way of dread came visiting us all.

“On reflection all three of them ought to have had extra assist. Perhaps we may have accomplished extra as a gaggle or organisation, not sufficient individuals put themselves of their footwear.

“I noticed it occur within the fourth Check of that sequence,” he wrote in accusing South Africa of manipulating the ball. “Take into consideration that. After every part that had occurred in Cape City, after all of the headlines and bans and carry-on.

“I used to be standing on the bowler’s finish within the subsequent Check when a shot got here up on the display screen of a South African participant at mid-off having an enormous crack on the ball. The tv director, who had performed an lively position in catching out Cam, instantly pulled the shot off the display screen.

“We went to the umpires about it, which could appear a bit poor, however we’d been slaughtered and had been satisfied they’d been as much as it because the first Check. However the footage received misplaced. As it might.”

Cameron Bancroft and David Warner. (AAP Picture/Dave Hunt)

His opposing captain that day, Faf du Plessis, has coincidentally simply launched a e book of his personal by which he claimed Australia had been tampering with the ball lengthy earlier than the Cape City Check of 2018. 

In “Faf: By means of Fireplace”, he revealed his staff began spying on the Australians within the discipline. 

“We suspected that somebody had been nurturing the ball an excessive amount of to get it to reverse so wildly, and we watched the second Check at St George’s by means of binoculars, in order that we may comply with the ball extra intently whereas Australia was fielding.

“Once we seen that the ball was going to David Warner very often.

“There was a visual distinction between how Mitchell Starc received the ball to reverse within the first Check in Durban and the ultimate Check in Johannesburg. We now know that there was an apparent purpose for that.”