The pay dispute between CA and ACA has reached a resolution

AFTER months of rage and backbiting, Cricket Australia’s James Sutherland and his Australian Cricketers Association counterpart Alistair Nicholson have agreed on all key terms.

CA CEO James Sutherland may have a resolution to announce on Monday.

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CRICKET’S uncivil war is over.

After months of rage and backbiting, Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland and his Australian Cricketers Association counterpart Alistair Nicholson have agreed on all key terms and are set to announce at a joint press conference as early as Tuesday that at long last, a pay deal has been reached.

There is peace in our times.

Only a monumental last-minute spanner in the works could derail a final agreement being signed off now after both parties were last night working feverishly on finalising the very last details and aiming for a declaration to be made Tuesday in Melbourne.

James Sutherland entered negotiations in the latter stages.

Despite or perhaps due to the imminent threat of court arbitration, the Ashes have been saved and Steve Smith - who will appear on Fox Sports’ Back Page program on Tuesday - will all but certainly be leading his Test team to Bangladesh in late August.

It’s understood the players will get a revenue share model in the new MOU, but with a significant makeover that Cricket Australia believes will allow them more financial flexibility to administer to the grassroots of the game.

The ACA’s other non-negotiable was to insist on back pay, and it appears CA has also been willing to make this compromise in the interests of shaking hands on this messy affair.

Aussie captain Steve Smith and his teammates may soon be back on the field.

Back pay to cover the salaries of male and female players left uncontracted since June 30 will cost CA a couple of million dollars, but it’s nothing compared to the irreparable destruction that was hanging over the game if commercial partners walked away, and the Ashes was compromised.

That’s not to say that the nine-month saga hasn’t left enormous damage.

Recently retired greats Michael Clarke and Mitchell Johnson have already communicated their fears that relationships and trust between players and administrators have been left broken.

An Australia A tour to South Africa was sacrificed and only time will tell the impact that will have on the career aspirations of Usman Khawaja and Glenn Maxwell and on the Ashes preparations of the Test team.

Intense negotiations have taken place since Friday.

The two parties were locked in a room until after midnight on Sunday night only to be back negotiating again by 10am on Monday morning.

It was the surest sign yet that the CA and the ACA were rocketing towards a resolution at a rate of knots and there was a united focus that had been lacking for the past nine months.

The Daily Telegraph understands that key issues like revenue share, back pay and the adjustment ledger have been thrashed out and both parties are comfortable an understanding has been reached.

All the important numbers have been crunched and the back has been broken on a dispute that has gone around in circles and been the most significant the game has encountered since World Series cricket.

David Warner has been outspoken during the long-running saga.

There are still details to be worked through but there appears supreme confidence from both sides that all the boxes can be ticked to make an announcement on Tuesday.

If there was no agreement by close of business on Tuesday Cricket Australia were going to recommend sending the unresolved aspects to arbitration.

The players were not convinced of this method and there was the potential for the saga to drag on and on and for the Bangladesh Test tour to be boycotted.

This is a war that won’t be over until it’s over and both sides remain wary of last minute complications.

Cricket Australia on Monday released its Big Bash League draw in anticipation that the MOU will be finalised.