NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the period from October 2019 to September 2020.
The BCCI announces the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the period from October 2019 to September 2020.
Saini, Mayank, Shreyas, Washington and Deepak Chahar get annual player contracts.
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Interestingly, former India captain MS Dhoni was dropped from the BCCI’s list of centrally contracted players, raising fresh doubts on the future of the veteran wicketkeeper-batsman, who has not played since the World Cup semi-final loss to New Zealand in 2019.
The contracts, from October 2019 to September 2020, are in four categories – A+ (Rs 7 crore), A (Rs 5 crore), B (Rs 3 crore) and C (Rs 1 crore). As many as 27 players have been divided into these four categories.
The payment structures are as under-
- Team India (Senior Men)
| Period | Grade A + | Grade A | Grade B | Grade C |
| Oct 2019 to Sept 2020 | Rs 7 Cr | Rs 5 Cr | Rs 3 Cr | Rs 1 Cr |
Distribution of Annual Player Contracts Team India (Senior Men)
I.
| Grade | S.No. | Athletes |
| A+ | 1 | Virat Kohli |
| 2 | Rohit Sharma | |
| 3 | Jasprit Bumrah |
II.
| Grade | S.No. | Athletes |
| A | 1 | Ravichandran Ashwin |
| 2 | Ravindra Jadeja | |
| 4 | Cheteshwar Pujara | |
| 5 | Ajinkya Rahane | |
| 6 | K L Rahul | |
| 7 | Shikhar Dhawan | |
| 8 | Mohd. Shami | |
| 9 | Ishant Sharma | |
| 10 | Kuldeep Yadav | |
| 11 | Rishabh Pant |
III.
| Grade | S.No. | Athletes |
| B | 1 | Wriddhiman Saha |
| 2 | Umesh Yadav | |
| 3 | Yuzvendra Chahal | |
| 4 | Hardik Pandya | |
| 5 | Mayank Agarwal |
IV.
| Grade | S.No. | Athletes |
| C | 1 | Kedar Jadhav |
| 2 | Navdeep Saini | |
| 3 | Deepak Chahar | |
| 4 | Manish Pandey | |
| 5 | Hanuma Vihari | |
| 6 | Shardul Thakur | |
| 7 | Shreyas Iyer | |
| 8 | Washington Sundar |
