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Australia Test Captain Tim Paine has stated that the leadership of a younger team is much easier than captaining the current Test team based on what he understood from his past experience.

Paine said that he never forgets the memory of captaining the Under-19 Cricket Team in the ICC Under-19 World Cup which was hosted by Bangladesh in 2004.  

The current Test captain also said that the shocking experience he and his entire team had to go through in the 2004 edition of the under 19 World Cup in Bangladesh.

Paine led the under -19 team at that event and his first time captaining experience was an eye-opener for him and Pakistan were the champions of that event.

 “I remember being very honoured to be the Aussie U-19 captain, but the thing that stood out was the first time I went to a country like Bangladesh and just the eye-opening experience that it was, having never experienced anything like it,” Tim Paine said 

Paine also remembered they were in shocks after seeing the spin-friendly condition in Bangladesh and in his opinion nothing has changed in Bangladesh cricket since than

“I remember the first week we were there, all the boys being in shock about how different it was to what we're used to in Australia, so that was certainly a challenge for young Australian men to go and see that,” he recalled.