Tim Paine suffered a career-threatening index finger injury in 2010 when he was still new as Australia’s first-choice wicketkeeper and was showing a lot of promise.
Tim Paine missed cricket for two long seasons, during which he underwent as many as seven surgeries. And in the process, he lost his confidence and form.
“I got to the stage where I was scared of getting hit, and I just had no idea what I was going to do,” Tim Paine said in the ‘Bounce Back Podcast’.
Tim Paine returned to the Test team in the 2017-18 Ashes series
The 35-year-old also went on to say that he started disliking playing cricket, but would enjoy watching it. Tim Paine said that nobody knew he was struggling, not even his friends and family, and only after consultation with a sports psychologist did his mental health begin to improve.
Paine found his way back in the Test team during the 2017-18 Ashes series and also took on the role of the the red-ball captain after Steve Smith was suspended post the ball-tampering scandal.
The right-hander has played 31 Tests, 35 ODIs and 12 T20Is for Australia, from which he has 1330, 890 and 82 runs respectively.
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