Australia cricket captain resigns after 'sexting' scandal

Tim Paine took over the Australian Test cricket team captaincy following one of the country's biggest and most embarrassing international scandals, reports AP.

He's lost it following a more personal indiscretion.

Paine quit as Test captain on Friday after being investigated by Cricket Australia for sending explicit text messages to a female co-worker four years ago.

Veteran wicketkeeper Paine was named in a News Corp. report as being at the center of the sexting scandal. The 36-year-old Paine appeared before media on Friday in Adelaide to announce he was resigning the captaincy but wanted to remain a member of the test squad.

The announcement comes less than three weeks before the Dec. 8 start in Brisbane of the five-test Ashes series against England.