dined by CA board directors in Melbourne on Wednesday night, Smith and Warner elected only to make conciliatory noises after the end of the Chappell-Hadlee series

Australias captain Steven Smith and his deputy David Warner have chosen not to enter into a public debate ahead of the next round of meetings in pay negotiations between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers Association.Having been wined and dined by CA board directors in Melbourne on Wednesday night, Smith and Warner elected only to make conciliatory noises after the end of the Chappell-Hadlee series against New Zealand. Their words were in contrast to the more urgent tone taken by others, including the ACA chief executive Alistair Nicholson and the former Australian international Simon Katich.For us it was a good opportunity to meet the board and have a nice dinner with them and a good chat, Smith said of the dinner, the sort of courtesy that was not offered to Nicholson, among others. They took our points of view, we listened to them and it was nice to see everyone on the same page and trying to get the best for our game moving forward.Sitting alongside Smith, Warner chimed in to say: Dinner was nice.While CA declined to comment publicly on the MOU negotiations, there is a wide expectation that the board will seek to break-up the revenue sharing model that has been fundamental to Australian cricket since 1997. Under that model, Australias players get around 26% of Australian Cricket Revenue, a selection of the money generated by the game that is decided upon by CA.The ACA is seeking the retention of the model while also hoping to expand and future-proof the sources of revenue. This is partly designed to cater for the inclusion of more expansive womens pay in the next MOU, at a time when the game is expanding in professionalism and prominence via the Womens Big Bash League.Smith, Warner and other senior Australian players are critical to negotiations because it is believed that CA will try to tempt them into accepting considerable individual pay rises in exchange for the revenue sharing model being stripped away. In this, the model would be similar to that presently in use for the women, who are paid separately by CA without a wide range of conditions and benefits open to the men via their longer standing MOU agreements.Another key figure in the debate is the former captain Mark Taylor, who forged a middle path between the players and the board when a pay dispute in 1997 was defused by the adoption of the revenue sharing model and the founding of the ACA itself. Now a board director, Taylor is also known to be a mentor of Smith, and a proponent of the move away from revenue sharing.The CA chairman David Peever was previously the managing director of the mining giant Rio Tintos Australian operations and an outspoken critic of union involvement in the workplace. In a 2012 mining conference address, Peever had outlined his views on third party involvement in negotiations between employers and employees.Direct engagement between companies and employees, flexibility and the need for improved productivity has to be at the heart of the system, he said at the time. Only then can productivity and innovation be liberated from the shop floor-up, and without the competing agenda of a third party constantly seeking to extend its reach into areas best left to management.CAs negotiating team is being led by the executive general manager of strategy and people, Kevin Roberts - himself a former board director. 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Regardless of how the rest of the week plays out, Australian surfer Tyler Wright is guaranteed to add to her lead at the top of the world ratings after a dream day in the water in California.Wright defeated fellow Australian Laura Enever with a combined score of 13.50 on Monday (Tuesday AEST), to reach the competitions final four in swells of over a metre at Lower Trestles.Her quarter-final win came after main title rival Courtney Conlogue was beaten by six-time Australian world champion Stephanie Gilmore in the fourth round.Gilmore again came to the assistance of Wright in the quarter-finals, when she defeated Hawaiian world No.3 Carissa Moore - with her first two waves producing a combined score of 16.10.Obviously to see Courtney go out was good for Tyler , but were all here for one thing, and I want to win, Gilmore said.But it means Wright will now take at least a 5000 point lead into the final three events of the year, even if she loses her semi-final to American Sage Errickson.A win, worth 10,000 points, would put her almost an entire event clear.Ive never felt this coomfortable or this confident, Wright said.ddddddddddddIts definitely different for me this year and Im just going with it.Im not setting out a certain way that I should feel about things. This is just the way Im feeling and Im going out to do my job -- and thats to win every heat and every final.Australians make up three of the four semi-finalists, after Nikki Van Dijk accounted for Hawaiian Malia Manuel in her quarter-final.Van Dijk produced the highest round score of the quarter-finals with a combined score of 16.16, easily accounting for Manuels 12.60.Meanwhile Gilmores semi-final appearance is her first of 2016, despite reaching the quarter-finals in five of the first six events.I was actually really nervous going into that because I havent gotten past the quarter-finals in a while and I havent won an event in a while, Gilmore said.Keeley Andrews was the only Australian to taste defeat on Monday, beaten by Manuel in the knockout fourth round. 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