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Australian cricketers on Wednesday (May 24) unveiled plans to take back their own image rights, firing the latest salvo in an ongoing pay battle with the country’s cricket board.
It is the latest power play in an increasingly bitter stand-off between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Association over a plan to scrap revenue-sharing.
With no end in sight to the impasse and the current deal expiring on June 30, the ACA disclosed plans to form a new business to help male and female players directly negotiate sponsorship deals.
Establishing ‘The Cricketers’ Brand’, designed to manage and commercialise players’ intellectual property rights, was necessary due to “the uncertainty of all parties regarding IP matters should the players be unemployed post June 30”.
“When players are threatened with unemployment and when they learn they receive zero percent of the digital revenue they generate, they are naturally concerned,” said Alistair Nicholson, the ACA chief executive.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Image right worth nuff money. I remember the footballer David Beckham insisting on his in a new contract and many football experts thought it was just nonsense, it should be about football and nothing else. Mr Beckham was proven right. It's sometimes worth more than a sporting contract and last beyond forever.

Cricket is the only sport where the excitement is off the field

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

I thought only the greedy senior west indies players cared about this. Isn't this what lead to the India walk off, and ultimately all the bullshit we now face?

Ram was ahead of his time!

In reply to jballer84

The image rights fight started when Lara, Gayle and Sarwan were contracted by c&w when the wicb switched to digicel

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

It is good of someone to remember that incident ... and one may be tempted to say that since that incident the Player / Board relations which were bad before got increasingly worse.

In reply to camos

Ramnarine was vilified and ridiculed for his Stance...

these aussie losing and want money

If this continues, it won't be long b4 the Australian product takes a hit and rival the WI. We see the evidence already. From dominance, to losing, to now squabbling over money, to irrelevance. Dem well on their way.

In reply to carl0002

History has shown that AUS has learned from our mistakes, it will be interesting to see if they can find a creative solution here.

In reply to Str8_Drive
And if they find a creative solution, the WIBC can learn something. not betting on that

Clause 5....OZ style