BCCI Central Contracts 2025: Virat, Rohit And Two Others In Grade A+ —Check Full Player List

The BCCI on Monday announced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the 2024-25 season (October 1st, 2024 to September 30th, 2025).

Skipper Rohit Sharma, star batter Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja have retained their place in the A plus category, the highest bracket of the BCCI's central contracts list.

Six cricketers feature in the A category, including KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Mohammed Siraj and Mohammad Shami.

Rishabh Pant, who was demoted to group B during the 2023-24 season as he didn't due to his recovery from a life-threatening accident, is back in A category in place of the retired Ravichandran Ashwin.

The out-of-favour duo of Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan returned to the fold in the lower brackets in a 34-strong list of contracted players.

Iyer was dropped last season for allegedly ignoring domestic cricket for IPL. Wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan, dropped for the same reason, also made a comeback in category C, which is worth Rs one crore annually.

Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav have got B category contracts.

As many as 19 cricketers have been handed C-category contracts. They are:

• Rinku Singh

• Tilak Varma

• Ruturaj Gaikwad

• Shivam Dube 

• Ravi Bishnoi

• Washington Sunday

• Mukesh Kumar

• Sanju Samson

• Arshdeep Singh 

• Prasidh Krishna

• Rajat Patidar

• Dhruv Jurel

• Sarfaraz Khan

• Nitish Kumar Reddy

• Ishan Kishan

• Abhishek Sharma

• Akash Deep

• Varun Chakaravarthy

• Harshit Rana

The BCCI this time has not mentioned the remuneration of the players across the four categories. Cricketers are normally paid Rs 7 crore per annum in A plus bracket, Rs 5 crore in A, Rs 3 crore in B and Rs one crore in C category, over and above their match fees.

(With PTI inputs)