Australian Captain Tim Paine came out reflecting on few decisions me in second Test match against England in ongoing Ashes series. Paine spoke about how he h me errors towards end of second test match and face 'harsh truths' on his leership in final overs when his team was just one wicket away from securing test series. 

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Paine's afterthoughts

Paine said that he would have justed field to put extra pressure on batsmen and deny home team chances to score final vital runs. He said, "I would do something different with my field placings. re were times looking back at it where it was really obvious I should've h field up and allowed Ben even to hit a couple of boundaries so we h more balls at tailender. But I didn't do that. mistake's been me, we've moved on, we've learned from it, but that would've been main thing I would've done differently." Paine believes that keeping a few players up field would have helped to put pressure on Ben Stokes, and would t have allowed him to take strike away from Jack Leach, last man. Australia lost test match by one wicket although y were in a very strong position going into final overs of match. 

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On dropping Khawaja

Paine also spoke about decision to drop Usman Khawaja as Steve Smith came in for Old Trafford test match. Paine said that  decision was me after his discussions with coach Justin Langer and selection committee chairman, Trevor Hohns. Paine also said that with a player like Smith coming back into team, someone h to make way. Khawaja's record in tests has been poor and has t me eugh runs that me him a strong contender to fight for his place. Paine went on to say, "Usman's obviously a key player in our side batting at . 3 and he hasn't scored runs that he or we would like. So with Steve Smith coming back it was a tough decision to make on Usman, but we think he's still got a lot of cricket left in him, he's h a very good Test record over his career, and we expect he will bounce back pretty strongly."

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