Slow over rates in the Big Bash have become the latest battleground between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers Association.
CA announced last week that 44 players had been fined after their sides fell short of required over rates.
Each of the playing XIs from the Sydney Sixers and Melbourne Stars BBL sides were fined $500 after electing not to to appeal their initial $1000 sanctions.
Fines of $125 apiece were accepted by players from the Melbourne Renegades and Adelaide Strikers WBBL teams.
The captains of all four sides also received a first strike.
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A second strike will result in an automatic one-match suspension, as was controversially the case with Brisbane Heat skipper Brendon McCullum last season.
CA are adamant that slow over rates must be prevented to ensure a fast-moving and entertaining game.
But ACA chief Alistair Nicholson takes a different view, arguing the BBL's interactive nature should be cause for leniency.
"The BBL is rating over a million people and we've had 44 players fined in the first round," he told ABC radio on Thursday.
"Our sense was a very strict warning or something would have been more appropriate and if it continues to be an issue then we do need to clamp down on it.
"I think it was quite a strong play by Cricket Australia and we'd like to be more closely involved in that."
CA believe the ACA and players had ample opportunity to shape the playing conditions as members of an advisory committee.
It's understood the players also pushed back against changing the sanction from a fine to a team points penalty.
There remains little love lost between the two bodies, which spent much of the year engaged in a hostile pay dispute that threatened to stop the Ashes going ahead.
Sanctions for slow over rates were handed out six times in the BBL and twice in the WBBL last season.
