The Australian Cricketers’ Association executive meets on Sunday to decide whether players will boycott this month’s Australia A tour to South Africa after a failure to strike a new pay deal with Cricket Australia. CA and the players’ union both confirmed they had failed to reach an agreement on a new Memorandum of Understanding before Friday’s deadline, leaving players unemployed and threatening fixtures including this year’s Ashes series. The ACA likened the rancorous split in Australian cricket as the worst since the tempestuous days of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket revolution of the 1970s. Nicholson said the availability of players for the upcoming Australia A Tour of South Africa would also be discussed at the meeting. Players were due to assemble in Brisbane for training on Monday ahead of the South Africa trip.

Source: Hindustan Times July 01, 2017 05:48 UTC