Abdul
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CRICKET Australia has revealed the runaway success of the Big Bash has lost $33 million over its first five years and hasn’t been the cash cow many believe.
The expected revenue to be pulled in by the next TV deal for the exploding Twenty20 tournament, which could jump from $20 million a year currently to as much as $60 million a season, is a key driver in predictions of upwards of $2 billion in revenue for CA over the next five years.
Both CA and the Australian Cricketers Association are fighting over the best way to divide the big influx of cash between the players, grassroots cricket, investment for growth and administrative spend in the next Memorandum of Understanding.
In seeking to clarify just why CA wants to move away from the 20-year-old revenue share model, Kevin Roberts, the head of its negotiating team and a former state player, laid bare the massive investment so far made in the BBL.
While CA declared it wanted to increase payments to BBL players, the majority of which are domestic players, by 42 per cent over the course of the next five years the huge loss was revealed.
It’s a loss that only compounds CA’s refusal to overfund other payments to domestic players, for Sheffield Shield and domestic one day games, which will rise by just 18 per cent over the next five years under its new pay plan.
And an internal CA briefing note, seen by the Herald Sun, said the fact a revenue share was locked in also made it hard to control massive jumps in salaries for players, which had gone up by as much as 63 per cent for international male players over the past five years.
“The guaranteed percentage does not allow CA any flexibility to control the rate of growth according to the changing needs and priorities of the game,” the note says.
But while Roberts and CA once again put the case for reform forward, using Twitter to try and inform the public, a call to the ACA once again refused to happen.
The last communication between the warring parties was last Friday, when CA chairman David Peever again refused calls for meditation.
“Our phones have been on but we’ve not heard from anyone,” an ACA spokesman said.
“It’s only four weeks until this has to be sorted out, we can’t understand their refusal to even sit down and negotiate,
“No one wants to be in this position, but time is running out.”
Both ACA chief executive and CA boss James Sutherland are in England for various meetings around the Champions Trophy, which begins on Friday.
The current MOU expires on June 30, after which all national and most domestic players will be out of contract unless a new deal is signed.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...s/news-story/04e15a632db26d7e8a39deee31020384
The expected revenue to be pulled in by the next TV deal for the exploding Twenty20 tournament, which could jump from $20 million a year currently to as much as $60 million a season, is a key driver in predictions of upwards of $2 billion in revenue for CA over the next five years.
Both CA and the Australian Cricketers Association are fighting over the best way to divide the big influx of cash between the players, grassroots cricket, investment for growth and administrative spend in the next Memorandum of Understanding.
In seeking to clarify just why CA wants to move away from the 20-year-old revenue share model, Kevin Roberts, the head of its negotiating team and a former state player, laid bare the massive investment so far made in the BBL.
While CA declared it wanted to increase payments to BBL players, the majority of which are domestic players, by 42 per cent over the course of the next five years the huge loss was revealed.
It’s a loss that only compounds CA’s refusal to overfund other payments to domestic players, for Sheffield Shield and domestic one day games, which will rise by just 18 per cent over the next five years under its new pay plan.
And an internal CA briefing note, seen by the Herald Sun, said the fact a revenue share was locked in also made it hard to control massive jumps in salaries for players, which had gone up by as much as 63 per cent for international male players over the past five years.
“The guaranteed percentage does not allow CA any flexibility to control the rate of growth according to the changing needs and priorities of the game,” the note says.
But while Roberts and CA once again put the case for reform forward, using Twitter to try and inform the public, a call to the ACA once again refused to happen.
The last communication between the warring parties was last Friday, when CA chairman David Peever again refused calls for meditation.
“Our phones have been on but we’ve not heard from anyone,” an ACA spokesman said.
“It’s only four weeks until this has to be sorted out, we can’t understand their refusal to even sit down and negotiate,
“No one wants to be in this position, but time is running out.”
Both ACA chief executive and CA boss James Sutherland are in England for various meetings around the Champions Trophy, which begins on Friday.
The current MOU expires on June 30, after which all national and most domestic players will be out of contract unless a new deal is signed.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...s/news-story/04e15a632db26d7e8a39deee31020384
