BCCI announced Central contract for the Indian players from October 2019 to September 2020. Kohli, Bumrah and Sharma occupies the A+ grade contract.
Whereas, Ashwin, Jadeja, Pujara, Pant and a few other players comes next.
Players like Pandey, Hardik Pandya and a few other players goes to Grade B.
The youngsters who forms the secondary Indian team grabs Grade C contract.
Grade A+ (INR 7 cr)
Virat Kohli
Rohit Sharma
Jasprit Bumrah
Grade A (INR 5 cr)
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravindra Jadeja
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Cheteshwar Pujara
Ajinkya Rahane
K L Rahul
Shikhar Dhawan
Mohd. Shami
Ishant Sharma
Kuldeep Yadav
Rishabh Pant
Grade B (INR 3 cr)
Wriddhiman Saha
Umesh Yadav
Yuzvendra Chahal
Hardik Pandya
Mayank Agarwal
Grade C (INR 1 cr)
Kedar Jadhav
Navdeep Saini
Deepak Chahar
Manish Pandey
Hanuma Vihari
Shardul Thakur
Shreyas Iyer
Washington Sundar
The most surprising thing in the contract is that former Indian captain MS Dhoni’s name is missing from the list.
This actually makes perfect sense considering the fact that he is not playing for next two months as well.
He will be re-inducted if he goes well in the IPL and makes it to the World Cup team.