Here is BCCI annual player contracts list; Board makes big statement on MS Dhoni

Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday (January 16) announced the annual player contracts for Team India. There are four categories, namely Grade A+, Grade A, Grade B and Grade C.

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In the top category of Grade A+, three cricketers feature, captain Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah. The players in Grade A+ will receive Rs 7 crore while in the next category they will get Rs 5 crore. Grade B players will get Rs 3 crore followed by Rs 1 crore.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has not played for India since the ICC World Cup 2019 in July, has not been given a contract. This might indicate that his international career is over.

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The BCCI contract system is for the period October 2019 to September 2020.

The payment structures are as under

 

1. Team India (Senior Men)

 

Period	Grade A +	Grade A	Grade B	Grade C
Oct 2019 to Sept 2020	INR 7 Cr	INR 5 Cr	INR 3 Cr	INR 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
	3	Bhuvneshwar Kumar
	4	Cheteshwar Pujara
	5	Ajinkya Rahane
	6	KL 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

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