Cricket Australia moots arbitration in pay dispute
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CRICKET Australia has proposed taking its pay dispute with the nation’s elite players to arbitration if there is no resolution by early next week, chief executive James Sutherland said yesterday.
Australia’s top players have effectively been unemployed since the previous five-year pay deal expired on June 30, forcing the cancellation of the ‘A’ tour of South Africa as the acrimonious talks continued.
Sutherland said the impasse threatened next month’s tour of Bangladesh, the one-day series in India that follows and even the home Ashes series at the end of the year and it was “time to get the show back on the road”.
“We’re proposing in the short-term that both parties get together with really strong intent to get this deal sorted by early next week. In the event that it’s not resolved, we’re proposing any residual matters be sent to arbitration,” he said in Melbourne. “We’re prepared to accept whatever decision comes. In cricketing parlance, we will accept the umpire’s decision.”
Sutherland said if the dispute went to arbitration, players could immediately be contracted on a short-term basis to allow them to tour Bangladesh.
The test squad for that tour, which has not yet been announced, is scheduled to gather in Darwin for a training camp in the second week of August.
The scathing response of the Australian Cricketers’ Association later illustrated that Sutherland’s comments had done little to ameliorate the acrimony of the nine-month dispute.
“... after pushing the players into unemployment, an extended period of a lack of financial transparency, after three months of rejecting mediation and only after the recent arrival of the CA CEO into talks, CA discovers the need for urgency,” it said.
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