Cricket Australia proposes arbitration in pay dispute : Cricket, News

Highlights

• The previous five-year pay deal died on June 30

• CA think the version was unfit for modern times

• The Australia A group didn’t visit a tour of South Africa

has suggested taking their pay dispute with the country’s elite players to mediation if there is no resolution by first week, chief executive James Sutherland said on Thursday.

The top players of Australia have effectively been unemployed since the prior five-year pay deal died forcing the cancellation of the ‘A’ tour of South Africa since the negotiations continued.

Sutherland said the impasse threatened next month’s tour of Bangladesh, the one-day series in India which follows and even the house Ashes series in the end of the year and it was “time to get the series back on the street”.

“We see the increasing need for urgency to get this matter resolved,” he told reporters at Melbourne.

“We are proposing at the short-term that both parties receive together with very strong intent to have this deal sorted by early next week. In case it’s not resolved, we are suggesting any matters be sent to mediation.

“We are prepared to accept whatever choice comes. In cricketing parlance, we will accept the umpire’s decision and proceed.”

Is CA’s insistence that the version under which gamers receive a fixed percentage of earnings should be jettisoned.

CA think the version was unfit and is starving grass-roots cricket of financing, while gamers say it’s underpinned the match’s growth and prosperity.

The dispute has grown heated with both sides embarking on a public airing of their respective positions and grievances and had been simmering for over fourteen months.

Sutherland reported that if the dispute went to arbitration, gamers can be contracted to permit them to tour Bangladesh.

Is scheduled to assemble in Darwin for a coaching camp at the second week of August.

Sutherland maintained the uncompromising tone of this dispute by indicating the “peace strategy” offered up by the Australian Cricketers’ Association a week would be “bad for your match”.

He also said he’d watched ACA plans “perhaps designed to postpone” discussions but stumbled when asked to clarify why, if the matter was so urgent, he personally was absent from negotiations until after the last deal had died.

The ACA were not immediately available for comment.

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