The players association has called for Cricket Australia to learn from its handling of an ugly pay dispute after the governing body on Tuesday claimed its officials could hold their heads high over the issue.
Australian Cricketers' Association chief executive Alistair Nicholson believed a "full and frank" CA review was in order with players resenting being caught in the middle of the pay stoush.
"The ACA is adamant that what happened during the MOU (memorandum of understanding) must never happen again," Nicholson said in a statement.
"There are lessons which must be learned. A full and frank review is the best way to start the learning process.
"This was not a fight the players started. The players resented being put in the position they were by CA.
"Like any other group of Australians they stood their ground. They fought for each other and for the game.
"And when you consider what the game has achieved under the partnership model, it's a good thing they did."
Months of tense negotiations finally ended in early August when CA and the ACA agreed to a new MOA.
Talks became the most strained when Australian vice-captain David Warner suggested an Ashes player boycott after CA CEO James Sutherland sent a letter to players threatening not to pay them beyond June 30.
In June, Warner also accused CA of undermining their Champions Trophy campaign after releasing a video explaining why they wanted to modify the revenue-sharing model which was at the core of the debate.
After its annual general meeting in Brisbane on Tuesday, chairman David Peever said it would conduct an internal review but wouldn't publicly release the results.
But Peever claimed the governing body never embroiled the players in a public slanging match during the dispute.
"We made a very deliberate decision that we would not play this out in the public arena," he said.
"We didn't want to put players in the middle of the dispute.
"We hold our heads high that we didn't ever do that.
"We were disappointed about the way that the dispute played out in the public arena and we certainly believed it went on for too long but reform is very difficult."
The dispute had led to the cancellation of an Australia A tour of South Africa and threatened senior trips to Bangladesh and India and this summer's home Ashes series.
In other news:
- CA CEO James Sutherland said the first three days of each Ashes Test except the Melbourne Boxing Day clash had already sold out.
- Ex-Test captain Mark Taylor and fellow directors Jacquie Hay and Tony Harrison were re-elected on the CA board on Tuesday.
- CA announced it had suffered a $50 million loss for the 2016-17 season but posted a $68 million surplus over the governing body's four-year cycle.
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