Aussie cricketers protest new IPL rule
First it was the Indian Premier League franchises who protested against the formation of the new rules and format of the tournament. Now, it is the turn of the Australia Cricketers Association to object to a new clause that could be introduced by the IPL into the contracts of the players.
The Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 (BCCI) decided that they will not deal with any middlemen while formulating the contracts with the players during the IPL. The BCCI had also said that the contract will now be a tri-partite agreement between the players, the cricket board and the franchises, effectively eliminating agents from the process.
However, the bone of contention for the ACA stems from the clause which says that the cricketers will need to pay 10 per cent of their contractual earnings from the IPL to their respective cricket board. Earlier, it was not clear whether it would be the Indian cricket board who would pay the sum or would the players have to compulsorily part with the money.
It has now emerged that ACA is unhappy because the clause actually ensures that the cricketers will need to pay the cricket board this money from their pockets. The chief executive of the ACA, Paul Marsh said that he will not allow the Australian cricketers to sign the IPL contract, if this clause remains. He said that the ACA had made it clear to the Australian cricket board that such a deduction in salary would be strongly opposed by the ACA.
According to Marsh, “Cricket http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 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 per cent of an employee's wages from a second job he works on weekends.”
However, the CA had earlier supported this move and said that while they weren’t yet sure of the BCCI plans, they did appreciate the fact that the IPL would recognise the countries whose players made up the league.
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