BCCI has announced the list of annual contracts of players for the year 2024-2025. There are a total of 34 players on 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-Shreyas was dropped last year.
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. 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 plan 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.

Which player in which grade for the year 2024-25
A+
(Salary: 7 crores) A
(Salary: 5 crores) B
(Salary: 3 crores) C
(Salary: 1 crore)
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
Prasidh Krishna
Nitish Reddy
Varun Chakraborty
Rituraj Gaikwad
Mukesh Kumar
Rajat Patidar
Ishan Kishan
Shivam Dubey
Sanju Samson
Dhruv Jurel
Abhishek Sharma
Harshit Rana
Who gets how much salary and who gets the contract?
BCCI gives Rs 7 crore annually to players included in the A+ grade, while players included in the A grade get Rs 5 crore, players included in the B grade get Rs 3 crore, and players included in the C grade get Rs 1 crore. Only those players get a place in the BCCI's 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 suitable to be included in Grade C.

Who benefits and who loses?

Ashwin has been out of the list. Apart from this, Pant has got a promotion. Avesh Khan and Shardul Thakur could not play many matches in the last one year and have been shown the way out of the list. Apart from this, wicketkeeper-batsman Jitesh Sharma is also out of the list. Jitesh has not got a chance since Sanju Samson started playing. At the same time, KS Bharat, who has done wicketkeeping in Tests, has also been dropped from the list.

Which players were in which grade in the year 2023-24
Grade Players
A+ (4 players) Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja
A (6 players) R Ashwin, Mo. Shami, Mo. Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya
B (5 players) Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Yashasvi Jaiswal
C (15 players) Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Rituraj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, Shivam Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Jitesh Sharma, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, KS Bharat, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Rajat Patidar

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