
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.
| 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 |