Team India Annual Contract List – All Players

BCCI handed fresh contracts to 28 Team India cricketers with some climbing up the pay grade while some taking a slight fall. The contracts were once again categorized as Grade A+, Grade A, Grade B and Grade C.

The top-Grade A+ with annual salary of 7 crore INR per year has only 3 players in the form of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah while 10 players made the cut to the Grade A salary of 5 crore INR.

5 cricketers made it to the Grade B (3 crore INR) contract while 10 cricketers made it to the Grade C contract (1 crore INR).

Hardik Pandya who was in Grade B (3 crore INR) pay grade has now climbed up to Grade A pay scale.

Indian batsmen Kedar Jadhav and Manish Pandey missed out on the contract this time round.

Shardul Thakur is another Team India cricketer who got promoted to Grade B (1 crore INR) from Grade C (3 crore INR) after his heroics down under and limited over series.

Spin combo of Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav took a downward slide after a tough year. The spin duo got demoted to Grade C from Grade B pay scale. Also in the Grade C contract are Shubman Gill and Mohammed Siraj.

Team India pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar is another cricketer who got demoted to Grade B from Grade A contract.

Team India – Annual player contracts list

Grade A+ (INR 7 Crore): 3 Players

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah

Grade A (INR 5 Crore): 10 Players

KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya

Grade B (INR 3 Crore): 5 Players

Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur, Mayank Agarwal

Grade C (INR 1 Crore): 10 Players

Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Shubman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Axar Patel, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj

The above salaries mentioned are for a period of one year.