Australia skipper Steve Smith takes to baseball as many Australia's top cricketers face unemployment within days with a bitter pay dispute "extremely" unlikely to be resolved by a deadline on Friday. Smith took to Instagram to post a video which read: “Batting practice in New York #switchhitter. Australia's top cricketers face being locked out unless a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) is struck between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA), with the current agreement set to expire on June 30.