Tim Paine needs to be slapped with 18-month ban, jokes Andrew Flintoff

Australian skipper Tim Paine, speaking on the ‘Keeping it Real’ podcast last week, revealed a gross yet funny moment from the Old Trafford Test against England last year, admitting that he soiled his pants during the final hour of play as he did not want to leave the field with dark clouds threatening to put an early end to the contest. While Paine’s revelation has left the entire cricketing fraternity in stitches, legendary English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, who is known for never mincing his words, has now come up with a hysterically funny response to the Tasmanian’s comments.

"I learned this when I was 11 years old and I was playing for Lancashire under-11s at Liverpool cricket club and I did not know you could leave the field. I stood at slip and I wet my pants not a number two!

"I can handle ball tampering, I can handle it, they got carried away, but this lad this is just disgusting, absolutely disgusting Tim Paine! I'm saying 18-month ban, ban him!"

Paine’s moment of embarrassment, however, much to his relief, slipped under the radar as Australia won the Old Trafford Test by 185 runs, thus retaining the Ashes on English soil for the first time since 2001.