The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India for the period from October 2020 to September 2021.
The players are divided into four categories, which are A+, A, B, and C. The troika of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah has been retained in the A+ category.
All-rounder Hardik Pandya, previously in the Grade B category, has moved up to the Grade A category. Pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, on the other hand, has been placed in the Grade B category from Grade A.
Spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has also dropped to Grade C while Kedar Jadhav and Manish Pandey haven't bagged central contracts. Rookies Shubman Gill and Mohammed Siraj have got their maiden central contracts worth Rs 1 crore in Grade C.
Players who have put under the Grade A+ category will be getting INR 7 crore. Those in the Grade A category will get INR 5 crore while those in B and C will get INR 3 and 1 crore respectively.
Grade A+: Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah.
Grade A: Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, K L Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Rishabh Pant.
Grade B: Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur, Mayank Agarwal
Grade C: Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Shubman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Axar Patel, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Mohammed Siraj.
