BCCI announced contract list for the men’s team, Manish Pandey dropped, no Natarajan

BCCI has recently announced the new Annual Player Contracts for Team India Men for the year 2020-21. The list is for September 2020 to October 2021.

The payment structure has 4 pay grades- A+, A, B, and C. The A+ grade players get INR 7 Crores, Grade A gets INR 5 Crores, Grade B gets INR 3 Crores and Grade C gets INR 1 Crore annually.

Indian cricketer Manish Pandey has been dropped from the list. Bhuvneshwar Kumar who missed most of 2020 due to injury has been included in Grade B.

Indian pacer Natarajan, who recently made his debut isn’t included in the list and considering he is likely to play the upcoming World Cup, one can expect his inclusion soon.

Hardik Pandya, who also missed the year, has been included in Grade A. Only Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah have made it to Grade A+.

Here is the list of players according to the grades:

Grade A+ : Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah

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

Grade B: Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur, Mayank Agarwal

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