The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has officially announced its annual central contracts list for the current season. In a major change, the BCCI has abolished the A+ category, resulting in senior players Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma being placed in a lower grade.
The revised contract structure now includes Grade A, Grade B, and Grade C, featuring a mix of senior cricketers and emerging talents.
Grade A
Jasprit Bumrah
Ravindra Jadeja
Shubman Gill
Grade B
Hardik Pandya
KL Rahul
Kuldeep Yadav
Mohammed Siraj
Rishabh Pant
Rohit Sharma
Shreyas Iyer
Suryakumar Yadav
Virat Kohli
Washington Sundar
Yashasvi Jaiswal
Grade C
Abhishek Sharma
Akash Deep
Arshdeep Singh
Axar Patel
Dhruv Jurel
Harshit Rana
Nitish Reddy
Prasidh Krishna
Ravi Bishnoi
Rinku Singh
Ruturaj Gaikwad
Sai Sudharsan
Sanju Samson
Shivam Dube
Tilak Varma
Varun Chakravarthy
This year’s contract list reflects the BCCI’s evolving approach toward performance-based selection and long-term squad planning.
