“I am not going to get into it and get back and forth at Sunny Gavaskar and try and think I am going to win that. He is entitled to his opinion. It doesn’t affect us one iota. It is adding to the Test match which is great. So Sunny can keep saying what he wants to say. At the end of the day, I have absolutely nothing to say to that,” said Paine on the eve of the final Test at the Gabba.
Gavaskar had said after the last Test that Paine’s behaviour showed his frustration and that his bowling changes and field placements were not up to mark.
“It was unbefitting of a captain of a national team to be talking about something other than cricket…when you talk about something else, it shows your frustration. It shows you are not able to bear the fact that the opposition is putting up a fight,” Gavaskar had told media.
“At the end of the day, the Indians had the last laugh. R Ashwin had the last laugh for whatever Tim Paine was saying. I don’t know I am not an Australian selector, but his…