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CA CEO James Sutherland Takes Part In Meetings With ACA Over Pay Dispute

There is "movement at the stationary cricket negotiations, which has some observers hopeful a settlement in the ugly dispute can be reached before more damage is done to the game," according to Peter Lalor of THE AUSTRALIAN. The "crisis has become so serious" that Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland decided to take part in meetings with the Australian Cricketers' Association in Melbourne this week. CA is "playing down the significance of this," but the ACA believes it is a "breakthrough of sorts." The two sides "appear to agree on almost nothing these days." Sutherland and ACA CEO Alistair Nicholson are understood to have had a "long meeting on Monday, which some read as a sign negotiations were making progress." They had met "at least once before that in person" but were in "constant phone contact as the dispute approached its crisis point." The players are "under financial pressure as most of them have not been paid since the end of June." Sources in England said that the women playing the World Cup on short-term contracts were "concerned that they would also face unemployment when they returned." CA is understood to be "feeling the heat from its commercial partners." Sponsors "became agitated early in the week" when it was revealed that Mitchell Starc signed a contract with Audi, which is "at odds with CA's deal with Toyota." There are rumors about "other ambush marketing deals in the pipeline." One sponsor speculated that there could be a "move to request financial compensation from CA over the issue" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 7/13).

PEEVER RESPONDS: Lalor also reported CA Chair David Peever "lashed out at suggestions he is running an ­extreme ­industrial relations agenda and attacked" the ACA, saying that its "reckless" tactics can only "damage­ the game" and the ­interests of players, sponsors and broadcasters. Peever said that the players' ­association launched a campaign of such "sustained ferocity that anyone could be forgiven for thinking CA was proposing the reintroduction of slavery rather than healthy pay rises." Peever wrote, "Not content with that level of overreaction, the ACA has gone much further, refusing to allow players to tour, threatening to drive away commercial sponsors and damage the prospects of broadcast partners, lock up player IP (intellectual property) into its own business ventures and even stage its own games" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 7/13).

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