After the Tim Paine scandal, Pat Cummins is the frontrunner to lead Australia.

After the Tim Paine scandal: Pat Cummins emerged as the favorite to succeed disgraced former Australia Test captain Tim Paine on Saturday, with Mark Taylor, Dennis Lillie, and Steve Waugh praising him.

Pat Cummins emerged as the favorite to succeed disgraced former Australia Test captain Tim Paine on Saturday, with Mark Taylor. Dennis Lillie, and Steve Waugh praising him. After Paine’s surprising departure on. Friday over a sexting scandal, the 28-year-old, who has served as vice-captain in both. Test and white-ball formats since 2019, is widely considered as in a two-way fight with. Steve Smith to take over the reins. The shocking announcement came just weeks before the highly anticipated. Ashes series against arch-rivals England, with selectors expecting to name a successor immediately.

Paine resigned after a series of purportedly sexually graphic text message exchanges with a Cricket Tasmania employee surfaced in 2017, despite having been cleared of any wrongdoing by cricket officials at the time.

After the Tim Paine scandal: After a ball-tampering controversy in South Africa in 2018, which concluded in Paine taking over, Smith was stripped of his captain’s armband and banned for a year. He now has support to complete a stunning career turnaround.

Cummins, on the other hand, appears to be the successor apparent, with Smith pegged as his deputy.

Cummins would be the first specialist fast bowler to skipper the team since Ray Lindwall did so for a solitary Test match in 1956.

Given the circumstances surrounding Paine’s departure, former captain and Cricket Australia board director Mark Taylor predicted that the governing body will make a clean break with the past.

“CA, I believe, will choose someone who is new and clean. Because of the date, CA will be more comfortable appointing Pat as captain. After another squabble with Steve, it will be difficult to return “On Saturday, he told the Sydney Morning Herald.

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