Australian netball icon Liz Ellis has accused Cricket Tasmania of "victim-blaming" implicit the organisation's effect to an ex-staffer linked to the Tim Paine sexting saga.
After Paine stepped down from the Test captaincy connected Friday, Cricket Tasmania released a connection that mentioned transgression charges against its erstwhile worker were "still pending".
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"The allegations raised against Tim Paine by a erstwhile Cricket Tasmania worker were lone brought to the attraction of Cricket Tasmania erstwhile ceremonial charges of theft were laid against that worker successful mid 2018," Cricket Tasmania Chairman Andrew Gaggin said successful the statement.
Ellis, a two-time Commonwealth Games golden medallist, took contented with the statement.
"I deliberation it's worthwhile putting immoderate discourse astir [Paine's narration with the ex-staffer]," she told Nine's Sports Sunday.
"There's speech astir it being consensual astatine the time, but determination was aboriginal a workplace ailment made, truthful I deliberation we request to support that successful caput arsenic well.
"The idiosyncratic astatine the different extremity of the substance messages did yet marque a ailment and I was disappointed to spot Cricket Tasmania successful the archetypal enactment of their connection truly effort and discredit the pistillate involved.
"It was a unspeakable illustration of victim-blaming and they astir apt request to person a long, hard look astatine themselves."
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Ellis besides took purpose astatine existent Cricket Australia seat Richard Freudenstein, saying helium had passed blasted onto the committee that came earlier his clip with the organisation.
"I consciousness similar Richard Freudenstien has conscionable passed the subordinate arsenic well," she said.
"He's saying, 'My committee wouldn't person done this', but helium got briefed erstwhile helium came connected committee arsenic chair, [CEO] Nick Hockley got briefed astir this, truthful they knew good earlier immoderate of this was blown up publicly. Why didn't helium marque the determination then?
"You can't say, 'Our committee wouldn't person done it', if helium didn't marque the determination erstwhile you knew astir it, which was months ago."
Ellis expressed sympathy for Paine's woman Bonnie, who expressed her vexation astatine the ungraded being made nationalist successful an interrogation alongside her hubby successful The Sunday Telegraph.
"The different pistillate who I consciousness truly atrocious for present is Bonnie Paine," she said.
"It breaks my bosom to deliberation that she had been with Tim for 10 years, she'd been done those lows erstwhile helium was archetypal playing Test cricket and past helium went through, by his ain admission, immoderate unspeakable lows earlier helium got recalled.
"She went done that with him, and to deliberation of her sitting astatine location with a newborn connected what should've been her husband's proudest day, backmost successful the Australian squad connected the archetypal time of the Test lucifer astatine the Gabba successful Brisbane and helium wasn't reasoning of his occupation and helium wasn't reasoning of her, helium was sending these substance messages.
"I americium heartbroken for her. I'm truly pleased to spot that she enactment retired her broadside of the communicative and I deliberation some her and Tim doing it unneurotic was incredibly powerful. My bosom truly goes retired to her and I deliberation she's shown immoderate large fortitude done this."
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