By Kaif - Apr 21, 2025 03:44 PM
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BCCI announced the annual player contract list: BCCI has announced the list of annual contracts of players for the year 2024-2025. There are a total of 34 players in this list. Four players have been placed in A+ grade. At the same time, six players have been placed in A grade. Five players are in B grade and 19 players are in C grade. Nitish Reddy, Harshit Rana, Abhishek Sharma and Varun Chakraborty have got a place in the BCCI central contract for the first time. All of them have been placed in Grade-C.
At the same time, wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant has benefited. He has been promoted from Grade-B to Grade-A. The biggest news of this central contract is the return of Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer to this list. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja have been retained in the A+ category of BCCI's central contract.
Ishan and Shreyas had to be dropped from the list of central contracts for 2023-24 after a rift with the BCCI. Despite the BCCI's instructions, Ishan and Shreyas did not participate in the domestic tournament. However, now both of them have returned.
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Ishan has been placed in Grade-C and Shreyas in Grade-B. Rohit, Virat and Jadeja have retired from T20 Internationals, but they have been retained in Grade-A+. That is, all three will be in the BCCI's plans for some time ahead. This contract is from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. Ashwin has been dropped from this list after retiring from international cricket.
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| A+ | A | B | C |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rohit Sharma | Hardik Pandya | Suryakumar Yadav | Rinku Singh |
| Virat Kohli | Shubman Gill | Yashasvi Jaiswal | Ravi Bishnoi |
| Jasprit Bumrah | Rishabh Pant | Shreyas Iyer | Arshdeep Singh |
| Ravindra Jadeja | Mohammed Shami | Axar Patel | Sarfaraz Khan |
| Mohammed Siraj | Kuldeep Yadav | Akash Deep | |
| KL Rahul | Tilak Verma | ||
| Washington Sundar | |||
| Famous Krishna | |||
| Nitish Reddy | |||
| Varun Chakraborty | |||
| Rituraj Gaikwad | |||
| Mukesh Kumar | |||
| Rajat Patidar | |||
| Ishaan Kishan | |||
| Shivam Dubey | |||
| Sanju Samson | |||
| Dhruv Jurel | |||
| Abhishek Sharma | |||
| Harshit Rana |
The BCCI pays Rs 7 crore annually to players in A+ grade, while players in A grade get Rs 5 crore, players in B grade get Rs 3 crore and players in C grade get Rs 1 crore. Only those players get a place in the BCCI central contract list who have played at least three Tests, eight ODIs or 10 T20 matches within a year. Varun Chakraborty has played 18 international matches (four ODIs and 12 T20s) and has qualified for Grade C. A player who has played so many matches will automatically be eligible to be included in Grade-C.
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