BCCI Announces Annual Player Contracts, 3 Players In 'A+' Category

The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has included three players -- skipper Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Jasprit Bumrah -- in the top bracket of its annual player contracts for the period of October 2020 to September 2021.

The trio, in the 'A+' category, will earn Rs 7 crore for the year.

There are 10 players in the 'A' category who will get Rs 5 crore each while five players in category 'B' will get Rs 3 crore each.

The 10 cricketers in the 'C' category will get Rs 1 crore each.

List of contracted players:

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

Grade A: R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, K.L. Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya.

Grade B: Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur, Mayank Agarwal.

Grade C: Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Shubman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Axar Patel, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammad Siraj.