Australia Captain Tim Paine, On Wednesday, said that his team will not stay silent during their one-day series in England, the first tour since the ball-tampering scandal that rocked world cricket. Paine’s predecessor Steve Smith and his vice-captain David Warner were banned for a year and opener Cameron Bancroft for nine months after admitting to using sandpaper on the ball during the third test against South Africa in Cape Town in March.
“We want to be more respectful in the way we go about it,” Paine said. “We don’t think we’re going to change the way we play in a really competitive spirit.
“Certainly, we’re not going to be silent out on the field, we’re going to be speaking…. But there’s got to be a respectful element to it. We know what’s right and we know what’s wrong.
“You’re going to hear us talking through the stump mic and see us talking on the ground.”
