Cricket Australia has been sued by former Australian leg spinner Stuart MacGill, who claims that the board owes him 2.6 million Australian dollars in match payments, prize money and interest.
MacGill's lawyers filed the details in a writ in the Supreme Court of Victoria on Monday. The writ alleges that CA failed or neglected to pay MacGill injury payments for 104 weeks from May 2008 when the spinner ceased being able to perform his obligations under the Cricket Australia Player Contract (CAPC) due to injury.
MacGill is seeking 16,40,890 Australian dollars in payments, including fees for 15 away Test matches and 11 home Tests, his annual retainer and prize money, and he is also seeking 9,84,534 Australian dollars in interest, Sport24 reported.
The writ reportedly states that MacGill, who played 44 Tests and suffered a string of injuries as a player before his career ended abruptly in May 2008, had one-year contracts with CA from 1998 to 2007 and claims that in June 2007 the organisation had hired him for another year and offered him a contract for 2008 to 2009.
It further states that when MacGill had been injured and unable to play on previous occasions up until 2006 due to multiple injuries, CA had continued to pay him.
However, in May 2008 MacGill reportedly talked to the Australia team manager and the captain while on tour in the West Indies about numbness and pins and needles in both hands, knee and shoulder pain and was advised to return to Australia.
MacGill has said in the writ that when he failed to receive payments on returning home, the Australian Cricketer's Association had entered into negotiations with CA on his behalf but the sporting body denied liability and refused further dispute resolution, the report added.
