Border-Gavaskar Trophy | ‘It’s funny with the technology’: Former Australian wicket keeper Tim Paine on sledging against R Ashwin and Rishabh Pant

“Both the Pant and Ashwin lines were captured connected stump mic, conscionable arsenic umpire Shawn Craig’s comments to India A players were during the caller A lucifer successful Mackay wherever I was moving with the Australia A side. It’s comic with technology. You announcement each the wires and cameras erstwhile you locomotion onto the crushed but erstwhile the lucifer begins you are truthful absorbed successful the contention that you tin easy hide what you are saying is being beamed unrecorded to millions of people. Usually it’s good but each present and again you tin tally into occupation and that’s what lingers with the public,” Paine wrote successful his file for Codesports.

It was Rishabh Pant's crook for immoderate amusive connected the stump mic today… #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/RS8I6kI55f

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 29, 2018

While Paine was the skipper during the 2018-2019 location bid against Australia owed to Steve Smith’s prohibition aft shot tampering ungraded successful South Africa, the Australian wicket-keeper had played archetypal against India successful 2010 successful a Test match. With India winning the 2018-2019 bid 2-1 nether the captaincy of Virat Kohli, Paine recalled however the Indian squad transitioned and however helium wants to exemplary his crippled connected Pant if helium was to commencement his vocation again. “When I archetypal played India successful a two-Test bid distant successful 2010, they didn’t chirp astatine each overmuch connected the field, but for Harbhajan Singh. But by the clip we played them again 8 years later, truthful overmuch had changed. It was wide that Virat Kohli was shaping a squad successful his image: fit, assertive and unapologetic. From rather a mediocre fielding broadside they had go fantabulous successful that regard.

The sledging against Rishabh Pant didn’t truly work, and helium proved to beryllium our undoing astatine the Gabba successful 2021. I person immense admiration for Pant the cricketer, successful information if I was to commencement my vocation again I would exemplary my crippled connected his brash and fearless style,” wrote Paine.

Paine besides praised erstwhile Indian manager Ravi Shastri’s attitude. Paine, who played successful 35 Test matches for Australia, had retired from cricket successful 2023. The erstwhile wicket-keeper believes that the existent manager Gautam Gambhir is feeling the unit up of the Border-Gavaskar bid starting November 22. “One of the things that I thought truly helped India successful those 2 distant bid wins against america was the cognition of their manager Ravi Shastri. Boisterous and seemingly carefree, helium emboldened his players not to beryllium daunted contempt circumstances conspiring against them and rebound from the adversity of being bowled retired for 36 successful Adelaide successful the archetypal Test of 2020-21. I person superior reservations astir caller manager Gautam Gambhir and whether his temperament and attack suits this radical of Indian players. Biting backmost against Ricky Ponting’s comments astir Kohli betrayed a antheral excessively disquieted astir things extracurricular of his power and suggested that the erstwhile Indian opener is feeling the unit aft the location bid nonaccomplishment to New Zealand,” signed disconnected Paine.