Pay Dispute Nowhere Near To Be Resolved, Says ACA President Greg Dyer

May 24, 2023 at 12:56 PM

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Pay Dispute Nowhere Near To Be Resolved, Says ACA President Greg Dyer

Australian cricketers may be left to face unemployment as the Australia Cricket Association (ACA) president, Greg Dyer, has indicated that there are no signs of a resolution on the Australian cricket pay dispute before the June 30.

Thus far, there has been no hint of the dispute reaching a conclusion and the future of a total of 230 players is set to be affected as the current contracts of the cricketers, including national and domestic names, is set to expire on June 30.

The pay dispute arose from Cricket Australia’s proposal for overhauling the existing revenue model. The ACA and the cricketers did not support this bid and the controversy has been ongoing ever since the last six months without any significant positive development.

Players, including top names like vice – captain of the national team David Warner and fast bowler Mitchell Starc, have threatened to look for new employment opportunities in various T20 leagues once their current contract ends.

It was also recently announced that the Test tour of Bangladesh and Ashes can also face a boycott.

In their latest attempt to settle down the issue, Cricket Australia (CA) did loosen the strings a bit by offering a revised pay deal. The board agreed sharing of the game’s surplus with the domestic players. An increase in the annual pay was also proposed. But, at the same time, they remained firm on scrapping the current revenue sharing model.

Speaking on Tuesday (June 27), Dyer said CA’s revised offer was not adequate.

“I think it’s fair to say we remain a long way apart,” he said. “The fundamentals of the deal are nowhere near to being resolved. We see the retention of the revenue share model as being fundamental from our perspective.”

“The players have been very flexible, they have said we can look at alternative ways at addressing that revenue share model. We can be flexible but we have not had any response in return,” he added.

James Sutherland.

Dyer said CA’s latest offer “lacked detail”.

“It lacked any sense of the method by which the thing was going to be calculated,” he said. “It wasn’t sufficient. We still lack the financial detail to properly assess where the players are likely to end up, so it wasn’t an offer of acceptance and CA knew that.”

Dyer urged James Sutherland, CA’s chief executive to reach a resolution.

“It’s the most important deal CA will do in five years, arguably longer,” he said. “I don’t personally understand why the most senior person in the organisation shouldn’t be involved in setting those parameters on behalf of their organisation. I don’t understand why he wouldn’t be involved.”

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