In-Principle Agreement A Huge Win For Players, Says Allan Border

Aug 4, 2017 at 4:46 PM

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In-Principle Agreement A Huge Win For Players, Says Allan Border

The Story:

The long standing pay dispute between Cricket Australia (CA) and Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) finally came to an end a couple of days ago bringing a lot of relief to Australia cricketers as well cricket fans all over the world.

After spending months disagreeing each other’s opinions and suggestions, an “in-principle agreement” was signed in the final round of face-to-face negotiations on Thursday. This has now assured that the upcoming tour of Bangladesh and India, which were previously under the threat of boycott, will now be conducted as per schedule.

The deal guarantees to state and international players will pocket up to 30 percent of an estimated USD 1.67 billion of revenue over the next five years, while female player payments will increase their stake from USD 7.5 million to USD 55.2 million. Up to USD 30million will be kept aside for grassroots cricket.

Border happy with players’ victory

Former Australia skipper Allan Border believes it was the players who won the Australian cricket’s pay dispute. The former skipper, however, was a tad bit sceptical about the future of country’s grassroots cricket.

“The players have had a huge win. This has been a total knock-out in the 15th round for the players. They should be very happy with the situation, particularly the girls.”

“I can’t quite work out grassroots cricket [though], what’s going to change? They still go out there and do their chook raffles and fundraising events and nothing much has changed as far as I can tell,” Guardian quoted Border as saying.

BCB relieved

Steve Smith-led side’s immediate assignment will be the tours of Bangladesh is scheduled to begin from August 22. It will be followed by ODI series in India and the Ashes series at home.

This development is a huge relief for the boards who were involved with the Cricket Australia. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) were awaiting a positive outcome as soon as possible as any prolonged problem could have hampered the tours.

The players proved the intensity of the matter after the “A” team decided to boycott the Australia A tour of South Africa following Cricket Australia’s failure to take any action to resolve a bitter pay dispute. A similar boycott was hinted for Ashes as well.

“It’s great news for Bangladesh. Definitely, we are very happy to see the problem has resolved,” BCB boss Nizamuddin Chowdhury said.

“Their next commitment is in Bangladesh. Now after the dispute is resolved, we can look forward to hosting them,” he added.

Smith also admitted that the negotiations were challenging.

“It’s been a long and challenging process and it’s great that we can now get on with playing the game that we all love,” he tweeted.

“I’m excited that we can all start working together again to continue to grow our great game. I look forward to Bangladesh, India and an exciting summer of Ashes cricket,” he added.

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