Sydney — Former captain Michael Clarke said on Sunday a bitter pay dispute between players and Cricket Australia was "horrible" for the game and their relationship was likely to be in tatters even after a resolution. After months of negotiations, the players and Cricket Australia have failed to reach agreement on a new pay deal, leaving 230 cricketers unemployed since the end of June when their contracts expired. Cricket Australia CE James Sutherland said last week that unless intensive negotiations over a revenue-sharing deal produced a compromise by early this week, his organisation would seek the intervention of an industrial umpire to resolve the impasse. Clarke feared things would not be the same between the governing body and the players if and when the disagreement was finally resolved. "I think it’s been horrible for the game, to be honest," Clarke told commercial broadcaster Channel Nine. "There is no doubt what has happened will affect the relationship even more than it al...
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