Adam Collins looks at both sides of the argument in the ongoing pay row which is dividing cricket in Australia

Adam Collins

Industrial disputes usually aren’t hard to understand. More often than not, they amount to a tussle between management and workers over wage increases. But the bitter scrap pitting Cricket Australia against the Australian Cricketers’ Association is harder to unpick than most.
At the simplest level, the deal that CA put on the table to cover the next five years shows pay going up, significantly, for all players. And more players than ever before, too, wit...