Problem $2$: Cricket Australia vs$.$ Australian Cricketers$$ Association

On $24$ March $2018,$ during the third Test match between Australia and South Africa in Cape Town, Australian cricketer Cameron Bancroft was caught on television and on screens at the cricket ground tampering with the cricket ball and subsequently hiding the object he was tampering the ball with in his trousers. At the end of the day$$s play, Bancroft and team captain Steve Smith attended a press conference. Bancroft admitted to ball tampering, claiming to have used a short length of yellow adhesive tape to which dirt and grit had attached. However, after an investigation by Cricket Australia, the national governing body of cricket in Australia, Bancroft admitted to having used sandpaper. Furthermore, captain Steve Smith admitted to having known of the plan to ball tamper in advance, but said that he would not be standing down as captain of the team. Bancroft was charged with ball tampering and fined $75\%$ of his match fee by the match referee and Smith was charged with conduct that is contrary to the spirit of the game and fined $100\%$ of his match fee by the International Cricket Council $($ICC$).$

The following day Cricket Australia apologized to fans and confirmed that both Smith and David Warner, vice$-$captain of the team, had agreed to stand down from their roles for the remainder of the match. Two days later Cricket Australia announced that Smith, Warner and Bancroft had been charged with bringing the game into disrepute, were suspended and would be sent home. Cricket Australia were satisfied that no other players or the coach were involved. Cricket Australia found that Warner had been responsible for the plan to ball tamper and had demonstrated to Bancroft how to do it$,$ has misled match officials and not voluntarily reported his involvement. His punishment was a $12-$month ban from all international and domestic cricket and to not be considered for leadership positions in the future. Smith was found to have known of the ball tampering plan and failed to prevent it$,$ to have told Bancroft to conceal the sandpaper in his trousers, to have misled match officials, and made misleading public comments. His punishment was a $12-$month ban from all international and domestic cricket and to not be considered for leadership positions for a further year after the conclusion of his suspension. Bancroft was found to be party to the ball tampering plan, to have carried out Warner$$s instructions, to have attempted to conceal the evidence, and made misleading statements to match officials and the public. His punishment was a $12-$month ban from all international and domestic cricket and to not be considered for leadership positions for a further year after the conclusion of his suspension. Although the coach Darren Lehmann was cleared of any wrongdoing or involvement, he resigned after the fourth Test in Johannesburg. Cricket Australia also announced that there would be a full review of the culture and conduct of Australia$$s national cricket teams.

The Australian Cricketers$$ Association, the union for Australian professional cricketers, challenged the fairness and severity of the proposed sanctions on the basis that the sanctions were disproportionate and unprecedented. In particular, the sanctions imposed by Cricket Australia were far greater than those imposed by the ICC and also that had been previously imposed for similar offenses.

You have approached Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers$$ Association to offer your conflict management services. You have been invited to Cricket Australia$$s head office to briefly $$pitch$$ your services to both Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers$$ Association.

In your pitch, you should cover the following:

Define the conflict between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers$$ Association from the perspectives of both parties, framing your definitions within established sources and types of conflict.

Identify important underlying mutual interests between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers$$ Association.

Propose communication techniques and skills to be used in resolving the conflict.

Propose a form of negotiation $($e$.$g$.$ distributive or integrative bargaining$)$ to be used in resolving the conflict.

Identify factors $($e$.$g$.$ personalities$)$ and barriers that will need to be managed and resolved in resolving the conflict.

As an $$elevator pitch$,$ your recording of yourself should be $6$ minutes long $($one minute margin acceptable$).$