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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