Australia’s cricketers rejected the board’s offer of a revised pay deal on Friday as the bitter dispute over a revenue-sharing model rumbled on with just a week to go before the current agreement expires.
Australia’s top cricketers face being locked out unless a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) is struck between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) before the end of the month.
At the heart of the dispute is a long-standing agreement that gives the players a fixed percentage of the revenue of the game, a deal which CA says prevents them from sufficiently investing in the grassroots.
In a letter to ACA chief executive Alistair Nicholson, CA executive general manager Kevin Roberts made the new offer.
“Player feedback suggests that the sharing of international cricket surpluses with male and female domestic players and the level of pay increases for male state players are critical issues for them,” Roberts wrote in the letter posted on the CA website.
“We are therefore writing to indicate that CA is prepared to address these issues to help achieve a new MoU.”

Australia cricket players’ association rejects new pay offer

Australia’s cricket players are in dispute over a revenue-sharing model with their board. (File photo: AP)
Reuters, Melbourne
Friday 23 June 2017
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