Jadeja joins Rohit, Kohli and Bumrah in highest grade of BCCI contracts

Ravindra Jadeja joins Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah in the A+ Grade of BCCI contracted players for the period from October 2022 to September 2023.

Axar Patel and Hardik Pandya have been promoted to Grade A, from B and C respectively, while KL Rahul has dropped from A to B. Shubman Gill and Suryakumar Yadav have moved up to Grade B from C.

Shardul Thakur has dropped from Grade B to C, while Kuldeep Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, and KS Bharat are all newly-contracted players in Grade C. Washington Sundar retains his spot in Grade C.

Ajinkya Rahane and Ishant Sharma, who were previously in Grade B, have not been given contracts, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Agarwal, Hanuma Vihari, Wriddhiman Saha and Deepak Chahar have all been dropped from the list.

An A+ contract is worth INR 7 crore, A is INR 5 crore, B is INR 3 crore, and C is INR 1 crore.

List of BCCI contracts for men

A+ category: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja

A category: Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel

B category: Cheteshwar Pujara, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Siraj, Suryakumar Yadav, Shubman Gill

C category: Umesh Yadav, Shikhar Dhawan, Shardul Thakur, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, KS Bharat