We won’t be greedy- Paine
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Australian Test skipper Tim Paine said that players won’t be greedy and will wait to find out if they will be asked to take a pay cut.
‘’Players need to know the absolute financial positions of the game and the players aren’t going to be greedy. Our livelihood, all the people associated with the CA and the players association, their livelihood is dependent on the game of cricket being healthy. So at the moment if a pay cut for us is on the cards and that keeps our game thriving well into the future, then that’s something we’ll certainly have to look at.” Paine said on ABC Radio.
Due to the coronavirus uncertainty, Cricket Australia has already stood down from their vast majority of staff for the rest of the fiscal year. And they are now in talks with the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) regarding players’ pay.
CA must provide a list of national contracts and revenue estimates for 2020-21 to the ACA by this 30 April as per their Memorandum of Understanding [MoU] and the right-handed batsman insisted that the players already knew about the less payment because of the revenue-sharing model they have in place with CA.
The skipper wasn't seemed to be surprised about the financial state of the board, considering the ongoing situation of the economy and in the business world.
“I think commercially a lot of sponsors have been pretty hard hit and it’s obviously going to hit cricket Australia at some stage then as well,” Paine said pointing that he wasn't seemed to be surprised about the financial state of the board, considering the ongoing situation of the economy and in the business world
“I think there’s a bit of safeguarding towards the potential of India not coming (on a tour in December/January) which is worth something like 250 to 300 million dollars.” He added
Paine also said that he hasn't been briefed about any plan ahead of the India tour yet, but he is hoping that the India will arrive as it will solve a lot of issues.
“I haven’t just yet and I don’t want to be. I’m hoping that they get here, that would solve a lot of issues,” Paine said.
“I know there’s been some early talks with Cricket Australia and the government around the potential of what could be done, chartering planes and getting them in isolation when they get here to make sure that we can get India here. But apart from that, I’ve only heard a few things on the rumour mill about maybe New Zealand coming out and us going there.” The skipper concluded.
