In March, Cricket Australia (CA) offered large salary increases for men and women but it was on the basis that players would no longer receive a fixed percentage of the body's revenue.

The offer was rejected last month with the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) describing the proposal as "a win for cricket administrators but a loss for cricket".

Former Australia captain Mark Taylor claimed the CA feels that the ACA "aren't negotiating at all".

"I have had players say to me in January that we could well be on strike in July," Taylor, a CA Board member, said on a sports chat show on Nine Network.

CA chief executive James Sutherland told the APA that players would go unpaid after June 30, when the existing collective bargaining agreement between the two parties expires, unless an agreement was reached.

"In the absence of the ACA negotiating a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), players with contracts expiring in 2016-17 will not have contracts for 2017-18," Sutherland said in a letter received by the ACA.

"To be very clear, in the absence of a new MoU, CA is not contemplating alternative contracting arrangements to pay players beyond June 30 if their contracts have expired."

The ACA said in response that the threats "were a window into the nature of CA's behaviour in these negotiations so far".

"There is incoherence and aggression in what we have experienced at the negotiating table from CA," ACA chief executive Alistair Nicholson said in a statement.

"This has further been demonstrated this week with some top players being offered multi-year deals one day only to now be threatened the next.

"However, despite these threats, the players affirm their offer to participate in independent mediation.

"Quite simply, one side entered these negotiations in good faith with an intent to provide a win-win result, and the other is trying to remove player unity and drive a wedge in Australian cricket."

Several Test players reacted on Twitter using the #fairshare hashtag, including fast bowler Pat Cummins.

He tweeted: "Players are staying strong #fairshare".

Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc hinted at a players' strike for the upcoming Ashes, due to take place from November 23, until January 8 in 2018.

"Makes for an interesting men's and women's ashes," Starc tweeted. 

In response, ex-Australia captain Shane Watson said: "Well said @mstarc56 (Starc). It will be an interesting game of cricket without any players".

Australia also have a two-Test series scheduled in August in Bangladesh.

The existing MoU is due to expire midway through the 2017 Women's World Cup, scheduled to be held in England and Wales from June 24 until July 23.

"The Australian Women's World Cup squad will be paid in advance of the June/July World Cup and will be employed until the end of the event," Sutherland said.