Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan have been awarded central contracts by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The Indian cricket board has announced the annual player contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the 2024-25 season (October 1st, 2024, to September 30th, 2025) on Monday.
Iyer has been awarded a Grade B contract, whereas Ishan has been given a Grade C contract. Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has been promoted to Grade A.
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 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.
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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 central contracts list:
Grade A+
Rohit Sharma
Virat Kohli
Jasprit Bumrah
Ravindra Jadeja
Grade A
Md. Siraj
KL Rahul
Shubman Gill
Hardik Pandya
Md. Shami
Rishabh Pant
Grade B
Suryakumar Yadav
Kuldeep Yadav
Axar Patel
Yashasvi Jaiswal
Shreyas Iyer
Grade C
Rinku Singh
Tilak Verma
Ruturaj Gaikwad
Shivam Dube
Ravi Bishnoi
Washington Sundar
Mukesh Kumar
Sanju Samson
Arshdeep Singh
Prasidh Krishna
Rajat Patidar
Dhruv Jurel
Sarfaraz Khan
Nitish Kumar Reddy
Ishan Kishan
Abhishek Sharma
Akash Deep
Varun Chakaravarthy
Harshit Rana
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