06 June,2017 09:01 AM IST | Sydney | AFP
Vice-captain David Warner has attacked Cricket Australia's handling of a pay dispute and once again raised the spectre of an Ashes series boycott by players later this year
Australia's David Warner
Vice-captain David Warner has attacked Cricket Australia's handling of a pay dispute and once again raised the spectre of an Ashes series boycott by players later this year.
"If we are unemployed, we have no contracts, we can't play," he said. "We are pretty sure that they will come to an agreement. But, as you know, we are going to be unemployed come July 1. So we have to wait and see."
Warner said beyond "a couple of emails" CA management had not engaged with its contracted players. "It is only what we hear in the media and that's how CA have been driving it the whole way," he said. "They have been using the media as a voice and we get the message from there."
Warner again pledged his "full support" to fellow players and affirmed he is "100 percent" behind the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA). "They are doing a great job for us," he said of the players' union's efforts in the dispute.
