Australian players’ are in doubts to be the part of 4th edition of the Indian Premier League as the Indian cricket board has decided to remit 10% of foreign players’ auction fee their national boards. This decision is not appreciated by the players and they have threatened not to sign the national contracts agreement.
The chief executive of Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) Paul Marsh has raised objection on the decision. He said, “The ACA has made it known to CA that any attempt to take 10%, or any other amount for that matter, from the IPL salaries of Australian players is completely unacceptable and will be opposed in the strongest possible way by us,”
He added, “CA simply has no right to effectively charge a ‘commission’ on income earned by players from outside their employment to CA. This is akin to an employer trying to take 10% of an employee’s wages from a second job he works on weekends. Regardless of the decision made by the IPL, we would hope that CA would act in good faith to its players by not taking this proposed 10″
It is the result of the recent match fixing scandal that erupted in Pakistan, and the IPL. The governing council of the IPL had earlier decided to keep the players’ agents away from the cash-rich Twenty20 extravaganza and give a cut of the players’ fees to the boards of the countries they come from.
Peter Young, CA’s communications manager said, “We have not received any advice from the BCCI and do not know what the Indian board plans to do. We do, in principle, support the view that those nations which develop talent which helps the IPL’s success should receive some recognition.”
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