Sydney — 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 in 2017. The feisty opener has not backed away from claims he made in May of a potential players’ strike during the showpiece home series against England, starting in November. Cricket Australia has threatened not to pay contracted players beyond the June 30 expiry of their current financial deal if they do not accept a new offer. But Warner has gone on the front foot, claiming the governing body had announced its argument primarily through media briefings. "If we are unemployed, we have no contracts, we can’t play," he told Fairfax Media in England at the Champions Trophy on Monday. "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 e-mails", Cricket Australia management had not engaged ...
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