Australia&rsquo;s cricketers may go on strike ahead of next month&rsquo;s one-day tour of England over performance-related pay issues, reports said on Saturday. Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) head Paul Marsh said there were contingency plans should a resolution not be agreed with Cricket Australia before July 1. <img alt="oz" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/Australian-players.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 248px; " /> Australian players look disappointed during the second Ashes Test against England at the Adelaide Oval on December 5, 2010. Pic/Getty Images. The Australian newspaper said players have examined a boycott of next month&rsquo;s one-day tour of England or the Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka in September-October. &ldquo;Relationships between players and management are heated and threatening to become as ugly as the stand-off surrounding the first player contract negotiations during Mark Taylor&rsquo;s captaincy (1994-1999),&rdquo; the paper said. &ldquo;Cricket Australia is playing hardball in negotiations and has frozen all state and Big Bash (domestic T20) contract talks under the threat of a Aus$50,000 ($48,400) fine until the new agreement is in place.&rdquo; Marsh told the newspaper his members were preparing for the possibility of an industrial stand-off if there was no contract in place before the current one ends. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s only 29 days of negotiations left to run, so of course we are preparing for the eventuality of not having a deal in place before the end of July,&rdquo; Marsh told The Australian.

Cricketers threaten to boycott one-day series against England next month or World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka over performance-related pay issues

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