Taylor defends CA board over 'toxic' claims

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Former Test skipper Mark Taylor has defended the civilization surrounding Cricket Australia during his clip connected the board, saying that sermon surrounding toxicity astatine the sport's highest level was overblown.

"I don't judge determination ever was this toxic civilization close done Cricket Australia," Taylor said connected Nine's Sports Sunday.

"I was connected the committee for 13 oregon 14 years astir that clip - I would accidental the overwhelming bulk of radical who worked astatine Cricket Australia are bully people, who worked for what they thought was the champion interests of cricket successful this country, and the cricketers and the radical astir them successful this country, truthful I don't subscribe to this."

It was the archetypal clip Taylor had spoken publically since the quality astir Tim Paine's resignation broke connected Friday.

Paine was cleared of immoderate wrongdoing owed to the consensual narration of a drawstring of substance messages exchanged with a pistillate co-worker, but stepped speech aft the contented of those messages was made public.

Taylor resigned from the CA committee successful 2018, a fewer months aft the Paine incidental was dealt with internally. He responded to claims from existent CA seat Richard Freudenstein, who yesterday said that his committee would person handled the concern differently.

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"You don't person 3 and a fractional years of hindsight," Taylor said.

"You person to marque decisions which you judge are successful the champion interests of each the parties concerned, with the accusation you person astatine the time."

Former netball skipper Liz Ellis said she felt the existent chair, and CEO Nick Hockley, had passed the subordinate by saying they would person handled the concern otherwise had they been successful their roles astatine the time.

"They knew good before this has blown up publicly, wherefore wouldn't helium person made the determination then," she said.

"You can't accidental "our committee wouldn't person done it" if they knew, it was months ago."

Taylor besides said helium believed that Paine was a antithetic idiosyncratic present than erstwhile the texts were sent.

"It's important to enactment that helium sent them not arsenic the Australian cricket squad captain, but arsenic a feline who played 4 Test matches astatine that signifier for Australia," Taylor said.

"He did that mode backmost successful 2010, 7 years aboriginal helium is similar Lazarus, helium comes backmost from obscurity to beryllium fixed different accidental to play for Australia."

Paine volition stay disposable for enactment arsenic a subordinate for this summer's Ashes.

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