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By Matt Walsh


CANBERRA, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- The bitter, drawn-out pay dispute between Cricket Australia (CA) and its star players is finally over, but it may have caused irreparable damage to the sport's popularity.


On Thursday Cheap Men's Nike Air Max 270 Just Do It Black Orange UK , Australia's most high-profile sporting pay dispute was resolved, after 10 months of negotiations marked by ill-will and a lack of trust, when cricket's governing body agreed to keep the revenue sharing model which gives players almost a third of the total revenue taken in by CA.


But the protracted and often messy discussions have left a bad taste in the mouths of many cricket fans in Australia, who have been bemused to see some of the country's richest sportspeople arguing for more money and, on top of that, cricket's administrators taking a 1950s-style approach to industrial relations.


The stoush lasted the best part of a year and threw into serious doubt this summer's Ashes series - the pre-eminent Test cricket series played between old enemies Australia and England and a great money-spinner for Cricket Australia. Fans were left wondering: how has it come to this?


CA chief executive James Sutherland Cheap Men's Nike Air Max 270 Flyknit Triple White UK , when announcing the deal on Thursday afternoon, admitted that the sport's relationship with the public "has been tested" during the standoff.


"I know that has been a bit of a turn-off for fans," Sutherland said. "Both parties acknowledge and regret that. We are restoring certainty and beginning to repair relationships, especially with the fans."


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Under Thursday's renewed agreement, male and female international and state players will receive 27.5 percent of the forecast revenue and 2.5 percent of a performance pool. In total, the players are expected to share in between 500 million Australian dollars (398 million U.S. dollars) - or 30 percent of the 1.688 billion Australian dollars (1.34 billion U.S. dollars) that Cricket Australia is expected to make over the duration of the five-year deal.


While many at Cricket Australia's head office and around Australia are breathing a sigh of relief that an agreement has finally been reached Cheap Men's Nike Air Max 360 KPU TPU Black UK , much work remains to be done to win back cricket's more casual supporters who have viewed the pay battle with some distaste.


Put simply, in the public forum there are two prevailing schools of thought regarding the complicated and drawn-out affair.


Many fans acknowledged that the players' boycott was necessary as the cricketer's union (ACA) was fighting for a fairer distribution of revenue funding among lower-tiered players.


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