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BCCI Central Contracts: After a snub lasting a complete year, Indian cricketers Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan have been awarded with central contracts as per the Annual Player Retainership plan. On Monday, BCCI released a list of players eligible for central contracts with their respective grades.

Iyer, who missed out for skipping domestic cricket, is now part of Grade B. The 30-year-old cricketer was a mainstay for Team India in the middle-order playing some of the most crucial knocks. On the other hand, Kishan, who opted out of the Ranji Trophy after a break from internationals, is part of Grade C.

Notably, India's most experience lot among the likes of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja and Jasprit Bumrah have been retained in the Grade A+ category.

Check out the official announcement here:

Check out the full list here:

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the 2024-25 season (October 1st, 2024 to September 30th, 2025).

GRADE

NUMBER

PLAYERS

A+

1

Rohit Sharma

2

Virat Kohli

3

Jasprit Bumrah

4

Ravindra Jadeja

 

A

5

Md. Siraj

6

KL Rahul

7

Shubman Gill

8

Hardik Pandya

9

Md. Shami

10

Rishabh Pant

 

B

11

Suryakumar Yadav

12

Kuldeep Yadav

13

Axar Patel

14

Yashasvi Jaiswal

15

Shreyas Iyer

 

C

16

Rinku Singh

17

Tilak Verma

18

Ruturaj Gaikwad

19

Shivam Dube 

20

Ravi Bishnoi

21

Washington Sundar

22

Mukesh Kumar

23

Sanju Samson 

24

Arshdeep Singh 

25

Prasidh Krishna

26

Rajat Patidar

27

Dhruv Jurel 

28

Sarfaraz Khan

29

Nitish Kumar Reddy  

30

Ishan Kishan 

31

Abhishek Sharma 

32

Akash Deep 

33

Varun Chakaravarthy

34

Harshit Rana
 
Varun Chakaravarthy earns a contract after his stellar performance in Champions Trophy 2025 which helped India clinch the title. 

Rishabh Pant, who was demoted to group B during the 2023-24 season as he didn't due to his recovery from a life-threatening accident, is back in A category in place of the retired Ravichandran Ashwin. Category A comes with a retainership of Rs five crore annually.

Category C features the maximum number of players, 19 in all, with four new entrants in Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Abhishek Sharma and Nitish Kumar Reddy.

BCCI Salaries As Per Grades:
 
Grade A+ players earn an yearly salary of INR 7 Crores.
 
Grade A players draw an yearly salary of INR 5 Crores.
 
Grade B players earn INR 3 Crore an year from BCCI contracts.
 
Grade C players get 1 crore an year.