The Afghanistan team tour of Australia in November will begin a gruelling summer for Australia where they will play the Ashes and limited-overs series against New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
Australia, who were front runners in the race to reach the WTC final, were docked four points for slow over rate during the Boxing Day Test against India.
New Zealand received USD 1.6 million (Rs 12 crore approximately) along with an ICC Test Championship Mace for winning the rain-marred inaugural Test championship final.
Paine feels Australia needs to have youngsters who can step up at the international level, taking the load off senior players.
World's top-two Test teams will fight it out for the title at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton from June 18.
Paine's age as well as Australia's losses in back-to-back Test series against India at home has led to a debate over the Tasmanian's ability to continue as an inspirational captain for long.
Australia's Tim Paine took off his wicketkeeping gloves and bowled 10 overs during a one-day domestic match, bowling medium-pace as well as off-spin.
Tim Paine's tactics were questioned particularly during the third and fourth Test and he admitted that the pressure got to him which led to blunders behind the stumps.
Paine's captaincy and glove work faced ire of many cricket experts during the Australia-India Test series.
Ravichandran Ashwin took another cheeky dig at Tim Paine on his official YouTube channel.
Several former players, including wicketkeeper-batsman Ian Healy and England's Kevin Pietersen, were critical of Paine's captaincy.
The former Australian wicket-keeper said the Australian side was not that bad but the players were "a bit soft this summer".
Rishabh Pant took a brilliant catch to dismiss Australian captain Tim Paine on Day 4 of the Brisbane Test.
Tim Paine had decided to review decisions for catches off Mayank Agarwal and later Navdeep Saini, both of which turned out to have missed the bat by a fair distance.
Chappell, in a column for an Australian newspaper, recalled the underarm bowling incident from 40 years ago to drive home his point.
India's Rohit Sharma was alert at slips to dismiss Australia captain Tim Paine, immediately after he reached his ninth half-century in Tests.
The Indian and Australian teams are once again in a hard quarantine after new cases of UK mutant strain were found in the Queensland capital.
Australia skipper Tim Paine has said he is not worried about the lack of wicket-taking form of Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Starc as he took the blame on himself for squandering opportunities to deny them wicket.
Gavaskar had criticised Paine's captaincy and also posed doubts on his future as the skipper of the Australian team in the longest format of the game.
India snatched a remarkable draw in the third Test against Australia in Sydney to keep the series alive at 1-1.
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