‘I couldn’t see how selfish I was’: Tim Paine’s raw revelations

Former Test captain Tim Paine has opened up about his “selfish” obsession with cricket, his failure as a husband and father, which almost led to a marriage breakdown with wife Bonnie, and the professional help he received to realign his life. “That’s as hard as it gets,” Paine told veteran News Corp cricket correspondent Peter Lalor, who has written the Tasmanian’s revealing autobiography The Price Paid: A Story of Life, Cricket and Lessons Learned, to be released next week. Tim Paine resigned as captain of the Australian Test team in November. Credit:Nine News “You think the whole cricket thing is your life until it is not and then you’re like, ‘Shit, what else have I got?’ and you ­haven’t got that either (cricket or marriage). That was a kick in the guts. “That period of my life, our life, still upsets me. I don’t like talking about it, I don’t like going back over it. It was bloody hard, but it was harder to see Bonnie trying to deal with it … it wasn’t because of her actions, she was within her rights to do that at that stage and I would probably have done the same.

Click here to read article