Cricketer seeks work after Cricket Australia pay fiasco
Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has posted an image on his Instagram account showing employment website Seek and captioned it 'Just checking my options... #seek #unemployed #imavailable #cricket’.
The Daily Mail reports Khawaja searched ‘cover drive’ as the job description and ‘very flat wickets’ as the location his Instagram update.
The post follows Australian cricket board Cricket Australia’s failure to negotiate a pay structure with the Australian player's association. Players believe they are owed A$58m (£34.2m). And 230 players are now officially unemployed after passing the 30 June deadline.
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