BCCI unveils Team India's annual player contracts; check out full list of 34 players

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (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).

India’s Test and ODI captain Rohit Sharma and batting talisman Virat Kohli retained their place in the top category, while the out-of-favour duo of Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan returned to the fold in lower brackets in a 34-strong list of contracted players.

The A+ grade, which commands an annual retainership fee of Rs seven crore, also features Ravindra Jadeja and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah much like the last few years.

India’s Champions trophy hero Iyer has been the notable comeback in the list, inducted in group B which comes with an annual remuneration of Rs three crore.

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.

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. Category A comes with a retainership of Rs five crore annually.

Category C features the maximum number of players, 19 in all, with four new entrants in Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Abhishek Sharma and Nitish Kumar Reddy.

BCCI central contracts list 2024–25

Grade A+ (₹7 crore per year)

Rohit Sharma

Virat Kohli

Jasprit Bumrah

Ravindra Jadeja

Grade A (₹5 crore per year)

Mohammed Siraj

KL Rahul

Shubman Gill

Hardik Pandya

Mohammed Shami

Rishabh Pant

Grade B (₹3 crore per year)

Suryakumar Yadav

Kuldeep Yadav

Axar Patel

Yashasvi Jaiswal

Shreyas Iyer

Grade C (₹1 crore per year)

Rinku Singh

Tilak Varma

Ruturaj Gaikwad

Shivam Dube

Ravi Bishnoi

Washington Sundar

Mukesh Kumar

Sanju Samson

Arshdeep Singh

Prasidh Krishna


    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
      
      
    
    
    
    
      
      
    
    
      
        
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
        
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
     
    
    
      

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Rajat Patidar

Dhruv Jurel

Sarfaraz Khan

Nitish Kumar Reddy

Ishan Kishan

Abhishek Sharma

Akash Deep

Varun Chakaravarthy

Harshit Rana

(With agency inputs)