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BCCI have reportedly disclosed the list of annual contracts for upcoming season and there have been quite a few major decisions taken by the board. According to Danik Jagran, there have been no changes in the A+ category where Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah have retained their spots.
However, in one of the biggest developments, senior duo of Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara have been dropped from Grade A to Grade B while all-rounder Hardik Pandya has been demoted from Grade A to Grade C.
Check out the complete contract list as per latest reports:
Grade A+ (INR 7 Cr): Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah.
Grade A (INR 5 Cr): Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Rishabh Pant
Grade B (INR 3 Cr): Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Siraj, Ishant Sharma
Grade C (INR 1 Cr): Shikhar Dhawan, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Deepak Chahar, Shubhman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Yuzvendra Chahal, Wriddhiman Saha, Suryakumar Yadav, Mayank Agarwal
It must be noted that an official announcement on the same is yet to be made by BCCI.