Players blindsided by CA's calls for arbitration
Australia's cricketers have been blindsided by an extraordinary proposal from Cricket Australia which could see players re-employed next week and save the Ashes and the upcoming tour of Bangladesh.
Andrew Wu writes on cricket and AFL for The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's cricketers have been blindsided by an extraordinary proposal from Cricket Australia which could see players re-employed next week and save the Ashes and the upcoming tour of Bangladesh.
Fears relations between players and Cricket Australia have plunged to lowest point since World Series Cricket.
Australia's players have hit back at Cricket Australia chairman David Peever's angry comments as the game's warring parties start the long road to resolving the ugly pay dispute.
Cricket Australia director Mark Taylor has called on both sides in the bitter pay war to reach a compromise as a former Test great declared the ongoing dispute as a "plague on both their houses".
Australian captain Steve Smith has warned Cricket Australia the health of the country's domestic cricket is at risk if the revenue share model is abandoned.
Fears are mounting of a disastrous Ashes boycott after players took the extraordinary step of cancelling a tour as Australian cricket's bitter pay dispute intensified on Thursday.
The bitter pay dispute in Australian cricket has escalated further with the Australia A tour of South Africa officially cancelled on Thursday morning.
Players are prepared to give Cricket Australia as late as Friday to make genuine progress in pay talks and save the Australia A tour to South Africa.
Cricket's D-Day has arrived and James Sutherland remains the only man who can avert the biggest industrial crisis the game has seen since World Series.
Talk show king Alan Jones has weighed into cricket's industrial dispute, slamming Cricket Australia for their handling of pay negotiations with players.
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