India – Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja hold on to top BCCI central contracts
The top tier of the BCCI’s annual central contracts has remained unchanged, with Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja in the A+ category.
In all, 30 senior men’s cricketers have been included in the contracts’ list, up from 26 in 2023. Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan were not part of this list.
The second tier of the BCCI’s central contracts (Grade A) has R Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill and Hardik Pandya. Grade B has a new entrant in 23-year old Yashasvi Jaiswal. It his his first BCCI central contract, recognising his work in Test cricket since debuting in July 2023. He struck back-to-back double-centuries in the ongoing series against England.
Along with Jaiswal, the other members of Grade B are Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel.
The final tier is populated by a lot of T20 specialists starting with, includes Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Jitesh Sharma, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, KS Bharat, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan and Rajat Patidar.
