Paine had apologized for his involvement in the sexting scandal and had stepped down from captaincy subsequently.
Tim Paine stepped down as the captain of Australia last year amid the sexting scandal and has now responded that he was sent indecent messages from the women who had accused him. Paine had allegedly sent unsolicited pictures of his genitals to Renee Ferguson, a former Cricket Tasmania employee, in 2017 during the Ashes Test in Brisbane. On account of an intense investigation on the matter, Paine was required to give evidence in court recently.
Cricket Tasmania mentioned that the women had sent Paine highly ‘explicit’ messages during the text conversation with Paine. In addition to the statement, Paine had also reported that the conversation included more than 20 to 30 messages and the women had strayed away from revealing the full matter while filing the court documents making it ‘incomplete and inaccurate.
‘The applicant’s text messages to Mr. Paine escalated such that they contained highly sexualized and explicit sexual content,” Cricket Tasmania admitted as per daily mail.
Apart from the matter, Ferguson had also been accused of stealing which she had denied allegations in a separate matter. This led to an immediate suspension of her job with Cricket Tasmania and subsequently she resigned from her position as a receptionist. The two parties have tried to settle down the matter with mediation talks which did not work out. The matter will now return to the Federal Court on May 10 and the judge had already warned the parties of the hearing could involve “complex medical questions”.
