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League Notes: CA Review To Focus On 'Win-At-All-Costs' Mentality

The review of Australian cricket "due for release in the next fortnight" is expected to focus on a "corrupting win-at-all-costs mentality at Cricket Australia," with a A$41.7M ($29.7M)-plus price put on winning matches and series, "despite the protests of players." A leaked copy of the Memorandum of Understanding, which was agreed after a "protracted and bitter fight," revealed the match and series win bonuses are worth an additional 2.5% on top of the 24% of cricket revenue used to make the player-payment pool (THE AUSTRALIAN, 10/21).

A "top" New Zealand cricket team wanted to pay its female players like its male ones, but New Zealand Cricket said, "Not so fast." Northern Districts Cricket "was set to announce earlier this month that it would give its women cricketers equal pay" during this summer's domestic Twenty20 doubleheaders -- a rate of NZ$575 ($379) a game. A senior NZC staffer told Northern Districts that the move was "not sustainable" (NZ HERALD, 10/21).

Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society -- the fourth-oldest golf club in the world -- "has become the latest to permit women members after a vote." The Edinburgh club, founded in 1761, revealed that 83.7% of members casting their vote on Thursday were in favor of the change (BBC, 10/18).

Australian national netball team coach Lisa Alexander "renewed her call for a cap on imports in Australia’s Super Netball league," claiming it is "stifling the development of the country’s premier young players." Alexander said that the sport and the nat­ional team "were in good health," but admitted to being "increasingly anxious about the influx of imported players" (AAP, 10/19).

Pirelli's Formula 1 tires "will have just three different sidewall colors next year:" white, yellow and red to identify hard, medium and soft options. This season "has seen seven colors used" in a "rainbow" range of tires "stretching from super-hard through hard, medium, soft, super-soft, ultra-soft and hyper-soft" (REUTERS, 10/20).

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