According to previous claims, two legends of Indian cricket, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, will receive lower salaries under the latest central contract. Kohli and Sharma are placed in class B of the payment system.
No room for Sarfaraz and Shami in BCCI Central Contract
Only three cricketers from the men’s national cricket team have been named in Class A. Test and ODI captain of Team India Shubman Gill, star pacer Jasprit Bumrah and experienced all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja have been named in Class A. In total, BCCI has named 30 cricketers under the central contract.
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Among the current star cricketers of the senior men’s cricket team, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Sanju Samson, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rinku Singh and Dhruv Jurel are placed in Class C. Like Rohit and Virat, T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav is also in Class B along with Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Mohammed Mohammed. Siraj.
Sarfaraz Khan and Mohammed Shami are some of the notable names who have not been selected for the central contracts.
Of the women’s national cricket team, 2025 World Cup-winning captain Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma are in the Class A pay system. For the women’s national team, the board mentioned the names of 21 cricketers in the central contracts.
There are 4 cricketers each in Class A and Class B for the women’s cricket team as most of the players are contracted under the C category. Renuka Thakur, Shafali Verma, Richa Ghosh and Sneh Rana have been named for the Class B section of the women’s national cricket team.
BCCI announces the annual player contracts for Team India Senior Men and Senior Women for the 2025-26 season (October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026).
Grade A – Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma… pic.twitter.com/9sEg0MsPSV
— ANI (@ANI) February 9, 2026
BCCI Central Contracts for 2025-26 for the senior men’s cricket team:
Grade A: Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja.
Grade B: Washington Sundar, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer.
Grade C: Axar Patel, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Dhruv Jurel, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Sai Sudharsan, Ravi Bishnoi, Ruturaj Gaikwad.
BCCI Central Contracts for 2025-26 for the Senior Women’s Cricket Team:
Grade A: Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma.
Grade B: Renuka Thakur, Shafali Verma, Richa Ghosh, Sneh Rana.
Grade C: Radha Yadav, Amanjot Kaur, Pratika Rawal, Kranti Gaud, Uma Chetri, Arundhati Reddy, Sree Charani, Yastika Bhatia, Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, G. Kamalini, Vaishnavi Sharma, Tejal Hasabnis.
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