Cricket: Australia players' union sets up IP business amid dispute


  • Cricket
  • Wednesday, 24 May 2017

FILE PHOTO: Cricket - India v Australia - Fourth Test cricket match - Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala, India - 28/03/17 - Australian players celebrate the dismissal of India's Cheteshwar Pujara. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Australian Cricketers' Association has set up a business to manage and market players' intellectual property should they be unable to strike a pay deal with the national cricket board.

Players have rejected a CA offer that waters down a revenue-sharing model which helped make them among the best-paid cricketers in the world over the last 20 years.

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