The Australian Football League will "finally reveal" to its 18 clubs next week the "prosperous and complex new pay agreement with its players," which will see salary caps increase by close to a total of A$40M ($29.5M) in '17. The AFL Players' Association completed its Australia-wide club visits on Tuesday, with players from all clubs expected to vote "overwhelmingly" in favor of the "new in-principle, six-year pay deal" (THE AGE, 5/11).
Australia will inform Friday's SANZAAR exec meeting in Tokyo that it is "proceeding full steam ahead with plans to cut one of its five Super Rugby teams." While the battle to eliminate either the Western Force or the Melbourne Rebels has been "under way for more than a month," there had been thoughts that the Australian Rugby Union might be obliged to tell its SANZAAR partners that the process was "so tied up in lawsuits, both real and threatened, that it was impossible to continue down that path" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 5/12).
Vinod Rai, who heads the Indian Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators, is "confident" that his team could transform the "personality oriented" Board of Control for Cricket In India into a "structured" institution by October, a deadline he set for the COA to complete its assignment of implementing the Lodha Committee reforms. Rai said, "It is still a long haul, but that ends in October" (ECONOMIC TIMES, 5/11).
Three suspected bookies were arrested in an "early morning operation" from the hotel where Indian Premier League teams Gujarat Lions and Delhi Daredevils were "put up," hours after they played at Kanpur's Green Park Stadium. The police found Rs 40.9 lakh ($61,000) in cash and five mobile phones "allegedly used to pass on crucial information about pitches and accepting bets" (HINDUSTAN TIMES, 5/11).
