The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced the annual central contracts for the period stretching from October 2020 to September 2021.
India captain Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and pacer Jasprit Bumrah have been retained in the A+ category and will earn Rs 7 crore annually.
Grade A + (Rs 7 crore): Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Jasprit Bumrah.
Grade A (Rs 5 crore): Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Rishabh Pant, and Hardik Pandya.
Grade B (Rs 3 crore): Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur, and Mayank Agarwal.
Grade C (Rs 1 crore) Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Shubhman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Axar Patel, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Mohammed Siraj.
On the other hand, Manish Pandey and Kedar Jadhav have dropped from the central contract list.