The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI,) on the 16th of January, announced its central contracts.
The list included names like Jasprit Bumrah, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya, but the name of M.S. Dhoni, the former Captain of the Indian Cricket Team, was missing.
While everyone expected Dhoni to be in the A category of the list, his name being excluded from the list altogether came as a shock to people. In the previous year’s central contracts, M.S. Dhoni was in Category A.
Released by the BCCI, the central contracts are divided into four categories—A+, A, B and C. While Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Rohit Sharma were listed in the A+ category, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, K.L. Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammad Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav and Rishabh Pant were included in the A category. The pay scale of all the four categories is said to be the same as last year. Category A+ players would get Rs. 7 crores annually, category A players would get Rs. 5 crores, category B players would get Rs. 3 crores and category C players would get Rs. 1 crore.
As many as 27 players are a part of the central contracts.
Below is the list of players category wise:
Category A+ : Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Rohit Sharma
Category A: Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, K.L. Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammad Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav and Rishabh Pant
Category B: Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal
Category C: Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Manish Pandey, Hanuma Vihari, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar.
Stay tuned for further updates.
