Cricket Australia and the players&rsquo; union were still &ldquo;further apart&rdquo; than desired in negotiations over performance-related pay, with the threat of strikes looming, CA chief James Sutherland said yesterday. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/james-s.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 294px; " /> Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland talks to mediamen. PIC/getty images The current pay deal expires on June 30, and the Australian Cricketers&rsquo; Association (ACA) has not ruled out strike action, meaning Australia&rsquo;s participation in the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka in September and this month&rsquo;s one-day international tour of England are both under threat. Sutherland said the cricket board and the ACA were &ldquo;further apart than we would like to be&rdquo; but defended proposals for a new performance-based pay system, which he says will leave players better off. &ldquo;We have put a very substantial offer on the table, it&rsquo;s in the vicinity of $80 million more over a five-year period than what we paid in the preceding five-year period,&rdquo; Sutherland told Australian Associated Press. &ldquo;$80m is a lot of money and that is based on our conservative revenue projections. &ldquo;If we go half way towards meeting our more optimistic ambitions with revenue growth, that increase in player payments will be even more significant than $Aus80 million.&rdquo; ACA chief Paul Marsh has said the negotiations over the new five-year deal have reached a stalemate and although he did not rule out strike action he insisted it would be &ldquo;an absolute last resort&rdquo;. Players currently get 26 percent of cricket revenue. Asked about the players union&rsquo;s resistance, Sutherland said he was &ldquo;surprised and a little bit disappointed&rdquo; and that a move to a performance-based pay system was logical. Accountability &ldquo;The focus is very much about performance and accountability for performance,&rdquo; Sutherland said. &ldquo;There is also a sense of accountability with this that the public would expect &mdash; that the players wouldn&rsquo;t get the same amount of money for losing (a series) 4-0 as they would winning 4-0. &ldquo;There is an argument that there is already a performance-based culture and expectation &mdash; the players have to perform to get their contract, they have to perform to get an increase in the value of their contract. &ldquo;But there is also an element of relative performance against the rest of the world, against the teams that you play against. &ldquo;And we believe that Australian players should be paid more for winning games against other teams, they should be paid more for being higher-ranked against other teams.&rdquo; u00a0

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