Stuart MacGill settles disputes with Cricket Australia

Shortly after Justice Michael McDonald advised former Victorian and New South Welsh leg-spinner to hire a legal representative for his battle against Cricket Australia regarding compensation for his financial blow due to injury, CA has made a settlement with Stuart MacGill. Earlier in 2008, MacGill was forced to retire from cricket due to the injuries he sustained in his career. As a result, the leggie claimed USD 2.6 million in salary and match payments after injury.

MacGill sued Cricket Australia for a whopping sum of 1.6 million dollars for financial payments owed to him due to various injuries after he hung up his boots in May 2008 due to various injuries. MacGill also appealed for an additional amount of 1 million dollars in interest due to the costs accrued.

Due to financial muddle, Stuart MacGill was forced to represent himself in Monday’s directions hearing in the Victorian Supreme Court before Justice Michael McDonald. Visibly nervous, MacGill stuttered and fumbled with his words, failing to put forward his arguments for his claims convincingly.

CA and MacGill find a common ground

In the writ filed by the former WACA and New South Wales player in 2015, MacGill stated that he had sustained various injuries such as numbness in his hands and wrists, swelling and pain in one of his knees and a rotator cuff shoulder injury which went on to terminate his cricketing career.

“We can confirm the case has been dismissed” commented an official of Cricket Australia according to Sydney Cricket Herald. Although, the exact details of settlement has not been revealed by both parties. MacGill, thereby, avoided the trial scheduled on August 14. CA lawyer Ben Ihle was of the view that MacGill’s claim was “really a debt claim not a damages claim.” The board does not dispute the fact that MacGill’s injuries were cricket-related, but claimed that the leggie did not honour his contractual obligations and that’s why he wasn’t eligible for injury payments.