Champions Trophy 2017: Do you want our team to win the tournament, asks David Warner to CA

Australia vice-captain David Warner has continued his verbal volley against Cricket Australia by asking them whether they want the national side to win the ongoing Champions Trophy.

The 30-year-old’s comments came after the country’s cricket board released a video aimed at persuading the players to agree to give up the proposed revenue sharing model.

In a video released by the CA, chief negotiator Kevin Roberts infuriated the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) by contradicting their claims about what it costs to run the game.

Why does the revenue sharing model need to change?

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— Cricket Australia (@CAComms) June 7, 2017

He also accused the players of wanting to take money out of junior cricket by demanding the revenue-sharing scheme to continue to remain part of the new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

Two-time winners Australia will now face England on Saturday at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground knowing that a defeat or abandonment could end their campaign at the eight-team marquee event.

Hitting back at Roberts, Warner claimed if CA would have wanted them to clinch victory, they would not have released such video.

“If CA want to try and help us win I think they wouldn’t be …read more