Former Australian cricketer Tim Paine is acceptable to beryllium the manager of Prime Ministers XI who volition instrumentality connected India successful a 2-day warm-up crippled astatine Canberra (Day-Night Test) betwixt the archetypal Test successful Perth and the 2nd Test successful Adelaide (Day-Night Test). The erstwhile skipper said that helium would similar to spot the likes of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli enactment successful the game.
“Hopefully, they (India) volition attack it with immoderate of their champion players, and they person got immoderate of the champion players successful the world. They had a pugnacious clip erstwhile they played against the pinkish shot successful the Adelaide Test (2020-21) truthful hopefully for the game’s involvement and Canberra cricket fans’ sake, we get to spot immoderate of the champion players successful the satellite similar Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, immoderate of their champion players volition beryllium connected display,” Paine said arsenic quoted by Cricket ACT.
On his coaching relation Pain Said: “I deliberation for a young manager similar myself, immoderate accidental that you get to pb a squad is simply a large opportunity, truthful I americium looking guardant to that. I’m looking guardant to moving with immoderate of our astir talented young cricketers astir Australia arsenic good so, it volition beryllium bully fun.”
Paine was the skipper of the past 2 India visits to Australia. played 35 Tests, 35 ODIs, and 12 T20Is for Australia, and made his past planetary quality against India astatine Brisbane successful the last Test of the 2020-21 bid successful which the hosts were beaten by 3 wickets astatine the Gabba. He past played a First-Class crippled successful March 2023 for Tasmania and has besides been progressive arsenic a manager of Adelaide Strikers successful the Big Bash League.