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BCCI Central Contract 2025: India's incumbent captain Rohit Sharma and talismanic Virat Kohli were retained in the top category, while the out-of-favour duo of Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan returned to the fold in lower brackets in a 34-strong list of centrally contracted players released by the BCCI on Monday.

The A+ grade, which commands an annual retainership fee of INR 7 crore, also features Ravindra Jadeja and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah much like the last few years.

India's Champions Trophy hero Iyer has been the notable comeback in the list, inducted in group B which comes with an annual remuneration of Rs three crore.

Iyer was dropped last season for allegedly ignoring domestic cricket for IPL. Wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan. dropped for the same reason, also made a comeback in category C, which is worth Rs one crore annually.

Rishabh Pant, who was demoted to group B during the 2023-24 season as he didn't play 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 five new entrants in Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Abhishek Sharma and Nitish Kumar Reddy and Akash Deep, who earlier had a fast bowling contract.

Fast bowler Avesh Khan, Shardul Thakur, keeper-batters Kona Bharat and Jitesh Sharma have also been excluded from the list.

BCCI Contract List 2025:

Grade A+: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja

Grade A: R Ashwin, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya

Grade B: Surya Kumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Yashasvi Jaiswal

Grade C: Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Ruturaj Gaekwad, Shardul Thakur, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Jitesh Sharma, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, KS Bharat, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Rajat Patidar

List Of Promoted Players Along With Salaries:

Rishabh Pant (From Grade B to Grade A) - INR 5 crore

Shreyas Iyer (No Contract to Grade B) - INR 3 crore

Ishan Kishan (No Contract to Grade C) - INR 1 crore

Sarfaraz Khan (No Contract to Grade C) - INR 1 crore

Nitish Kumar Reddy (No Contract to Grade C) - INR 1 crore

Abhishek Sharma (No Contract to Grade C) - INR 1 crore

Akash Deep (No Contract to Grade C) - INR 1 crore

Varun Chakaravarthy (No Contract to Grade C) - INR 1 crore

Harshit Rana (No Contract to Grade C) - INR 1 crore

List Of Demoted Players:

Shardul Thakur (From Grade C to No Contract)

Jitesh Sharma (From Grade C to No Contract)

KS Bharat (From Grade C to No Contract)

Avesh Khan (From Grade C to No Contract)

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