Tim Paine Shares A Hilarious Anecdote From The 2019 Ashes

Australia’s Test skipper Tim Paine has revealed a very funny incident that took place in the fourth Test of the 2019 Ashes. The 2019 Ashes will always go down as one of the most interesting series of the historic rivalry between the two cricketing giants.

Played in England just after the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, the Ashes went down as one of the most historic bilateral Test series ever in international cricket. Although the series closed down to a 2-2 draw, Australia managed to retain the urn for the first time since 2001 by winning the fourth Test match by 185 runs.

However, there was a very fun battle that Tim Paine was involved in with himself. Tim Paine has now shed light as to what took place in the fourth Test of the series.

Tim Paine Share Hilarious Anecdote From The 2019 Ashes

Moments before the end of the fourth Test, which had witnessed a lot of drama with Australia in search of the final wicket with few overs to go and rain threat looming large to end the contest early, skipper Paine hilariously revealed how he had to soil himself on the field due to no further break before stoppage time.

Paine said while speaking at ‘Keeping it Real’ Podcast, “I just had a horrible feeling that I needed to go to the toilet … it was (a) number two and so I basically just thought, ‘Righto, can’t waste any time, I’m gonna have to (go).”

Me And David Warner Could Not Stop Laughing: Tim Paine

He further added, “Unfortunately, it was one of those moments where the crowd went quiet. Because I was a bit unwell, it was a bit runny and you could actually hear it hit the ground. That ball was bowled I think by Mitch (Mitchell) Starc to big (Craig) Overton. Luckily he didn’t edge it because myself and David Warner literally had tears in our eyes, we could not stop laughing.”

“I just thought they’re (the umpires) going to call the game off here and we’re going to get stitched-up, so I couldn’t be running off the ground. I reckon JL (coach Justin Langer) would have knocked me out,” concluded the wicketkeeper-batsman.

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