'Crying on the couch' - Aussie skipper Paine's mental demons"I would rather be anywhere else in the world because I was convinced I was going to fail." - 'Weird and painful' -He said while he never lost his love of watching cricket "when it came to my part in the game I just hated it". "I would rather be anywhere else in the world because I was convinced I was going to fail. Paine finally won his place back in the Test team during the 2017-18 Ashes series, but the inner turmoil returned. "I'm going to have to bat in front of people and there are going to be millions of people watching.

Source: Bangkok Post July 12, 2020 03:22 UTC