The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Sunday introduced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the 2022-23 season.
In the pay scale, aggressive batsman KL Rahul was demoted to Grade B whereas all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was promoted to A+ class.
Grade A+ gamers are Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja who will earn Rs 7 crore yearly.
Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Rishabh Pant and Akshar Patel are just under him within the Grade A class and can get round Rs 5 crore every.
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Cheteshwar Pujara, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Mohd. Siraj, Suryakumar Yadav, Shubhman Gill are in Grade B and can earn round Rs 3 crore whereas Umesh Yadav, Shikhar Dhawan, Shardul Thakur, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh and KS Bharat are all in Grade D and can get round Rs 1 crore.
Experienced Ishant Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane, who got Grade B contracts final season, haven’t been included this time, whereas Wriddhiman Saha, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Hanuma Vihari, Mayank Agarwal and Deepak Chahar had been additionally given Grade C contracts final season. was eliminated after.
The Elite A+ class consists of gamers who’re sure-shot candidates for all three codecs, whereas ‘A’ consists of cricketers who’re confirmed for Tests and ODIs. Players thought of for restricted overs cricket are in Group B, whereas Group C gamers are usually thought of for one of many three codecs regularly.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
