Mumbai
The Cricket Control Board of India (BCCI) has released the Central Contract List for the men’s team. This time the BCCI has given 34 players to the central contract. Ishaan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer have returned to the Central Contract List. Let me tell you that Shreyas Iyer and Ishaan Kishan were excluded from the Central Contract List last year as both the players took a lover of domestic cricket.
Shreyas Iyer has been included in Grade-B and Ishaan Kishan in Grade-C. Abhishek Sharma, Harshit Rana, Akash Deep, Varun Chakraborty and Nitish Reddy have also got the central contract this time. Shardul Thakur, Jitesh Sharma, KS Bharat, Avesh Khan and retired Ravichandran Ashwin have been discharged from the Central Contract List. This contract list is from 1 October, 2024 to September 30, 2025.
List of BCCI Central Contract Players (2024-25)
Grade A+ (4 players)
Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jaspreet Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja.
Grade A (6 players)
Mohammed Shami, Mohammad Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant.
Grade B (5 players)
Suryakumar Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Akshar Patel, Shreyas Iyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Grade C (19 players)
Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Rituraj Gaikwad, Shivam Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, famous Krishna, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Akash Deep, Nitish Reddy, Dhruv Jurlel, Varun Chakravarti, Ishaan Kishan, Abhishek Sharma, Harshit Rana.
Let us know that there are 4 categories in the BCCI contract list. 7 crores in A Plus (A+) category, 5 in A, 3 in B and 1 crore in C category are available annually. Let us know that last year 30 players got the central contract. Later, Sarfaraz Khan and Dhruv Jurlel were also included in this list. Apart from this, BCCI gave fast bowling contracts to fast bowlers Akash Deep, Yash Dayal, Umran Malik, Vijaykumar Vaishak and Vidwath Kverppa.
Central contract players get money in this way
Grade A+- 7 crores annually
Grade A-5 Crore rupees annually
Grade B-3 Crore rupees annually
Grade C- 1 crore rupees annually
According to the rules of BCCI, the Central Contract is given to those players who have played 3 Test matches or 8 ODIs or 10 T20 matches in a session. But this time the board gave concession in it. Rana for example. Harshit Rana has played two Tests, five ODIs and a T20 matches for India.