Australian players say revenue-share model has underpinned the game’s growth and prosperity over the past 20 years. Australian players say revenue-share model has underpinned the game’s growth and prosperity over the past 20 years. The Australian cricket board confirmed on Friday there would be no eleventh hour breakthrough in a bitter pay dispute with the players’ union, leaving more than 200 leading cricketers uncontracted and the fate of future tournaments in limbo. The ACA has blamed CA’s insistence on altering a 20-year-old revenue-share model for the breakdown in talks and has refused to deal with the board’s lead negotiator. CA has said the revenue-share model is unfit for modern times and is starving funding of grassroots cricket, while players say it has underpinned the game’s growth and prosperity over the past 20 years.

Source: Indian Express June 30, 2017 10:18 UTC