BCCI contracts: Kohli, Bumrah, Rohit retained in top bracket; Hardik promoted to grade A

The BCCI have announced the annual player retainship for the year 2020-21. As many as 28 cricketers have received BCCI contracts and have been divided into four categories. While Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah have retained their A+ grade category, the likes of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Kuldeep Yadav, who were earlier in the A grade have gone down to B and C categories respectively. Hardik Pandya has moved from B to A grade, while fast bowler Shardul Thakur too gets a promotion of sorts, moving up to B from C. 

ALERT🚨: BCCI announces annual player retainership 2020-21 - #TeamIndia (Senior Men) for the period from October 2020 to September 2021.

Payment structure:
Grade A+ : INR 7 Cr
Grade A : INR 5 Cr
Grade B : INR 3 Cr
Grade C : INR 1 Crhttps://t.co/WgtmO7pIOv pic.twitter.com/ycnPcXPYJu

— BCCI (@BCCI) April 15, 2021

Shubman Gill, Mohammed Siraj and Axar Patel have received contracts for the first time in their careers. The trio have been named in the C grade and will get a fee of INR 1 crore from the BCCI, while out of favour Kedar Jadhav and Manish Pandey miss out altogether. 

Those named in the A+ grade will receive INR 7 crore, the ones in the B and C categories will get INR 5 and INR 3 crore. 

Full List:

GRADE A+ (Rs 7 crore): Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah.

GRADE A (Rs 5 crore): R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya.

GRADE B (Rs 3 crore): Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur, Mayank Agarwal.

GRADE C (Rs 1 crore): Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Shubman Gill, Hanuma Vihari , Axar Patel, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj.