BCCI central contracts: Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan return; promotion for Rishabh Pant

Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan have been awarded central contracts by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The Indian cricket board has announced the annual player contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the 2024-25 season (October 1st, 2024, to September 30th, 2025) on Monday.

Iyer has been awarded a Grade B contract, whereas Ishan has been given a Grade C contract. Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has been promoted to Grade A.

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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.

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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:
Grade A+
Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah. Ravindra Jadeja

Grade A
Mohammed Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Mohammed Shami, Rishabh Pant

Grade B
Suryakumar Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer

Grade C
Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Rajat Patidar, Dhruv Jurel, Sarfaraz Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ishan Kishan, Abhishek Sharma, Akash Deep, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana