Negotiations between Cricket Australia (CA) and the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) over a pay dispute continued with only three weeks until the current agreement expires on June 30.
Sutherland said he could not see his organisation bending on the terms of its new performance-based, sliding scale pay system despite the ACA claiming that the players will be unfairly short-changed.
"We have offered the Australian and state players a big pay rise. It's around about a USD 80 million pay increase over the next five years compared to the last five years," Sutherland was quoted as saying by the 'Sydney Morning Herald'.
"To us it seems like a very attractive offer, and to the players that we've spoken to and shown the numbers to they appear to think it's a very attractive offer as well. Hopefully, the ACA can find themselves in a position to come to terms with us," he said.
Asked if he was surprised by the ACA's resistance, Sutherland replied: "Surprised and a little bit disappointed", adding that CA and the ACA are "further apart than we would like to be". MORE
