The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the list of players for the new central contracts for the 2024-25 season. The contract will be valid from October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025.
A total of 34 players have been included in the new contract list, with Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, and Ravindra Jadeja retaining their positions in the top-grade (A+), just like before. New to this contract list are Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan, who were not part of the previous one. Rishabh Pant has moved up from the B grade to the A grade.
Although Rohit, Kohli, and Jadeja have retired from international T20s and are now only playing Test and ODI formats, BCCI has kept them in the top A+ grade. The salary structure remains unchanged, with A+ grade players earning ₹7 crore annually. Players in the A grade will receive ₹5 crore, B grade players ₹3 crore, and C grade players ₹1 crore annually.
Here’s the list of contracted players and their respective annual salaries:
- Rohit Sharma (A+) – ₹7 crore
- Virat Kohli (A+) – ₹7 crore
- Jasprit Bumrah (A+) – ₹7 crore
- Ravindra Jadeja (A+) – ₹7 crore
- Rishabh Pant (A) – ₹5 crore
- Mohammad Shami (A) – ₹5 crore
- Mohammad Siraj (A) – ₹5 crore
- KL Rahul (A) – ₹5 crore
- Shubman Gill (A) – ₹5 crore
- Hardik Pandya (A) – ₹5 crore
- Suryakumar Yadav (B) – ₹3 crore
- Kuldeep Yadav (B) – ₹3 crore
- Axar Patel (B) – ₹3 crore
- Shreyas Iyer (B) – ₹3 crore
- Yashasvi Jaiswal (B) – ₹3 crore
- Rinku Singh (C) – ₹1 crore
- Tilak Varma (C) – ₹1 crore
- Ruturaj Gaikwad (C) – ₹1 crore
- Shivam Dube (C) – ₹1 crore
- Ravi Bishnoi (C) – ₹1 crore
- Washington Sundar (C) – ₹1 crore
- Mukesh Kumar (C) – ₹1 crore
- Sanju Samson (C) – ₹1 crore
- Arshdeep Singh (C) – ₹1 crore
- Prasidh Krishna (C) – ₹1 crore
- Rajat Patidar (C) – ₹1 crore
- Dhruv Jurel (C) – ₹1 crore
- Sarfaraz Khan (C) – ₹1 crore
- Nitish Reddy (C) – ₹1 crore
- Ishan Kishan (C) – ₹1 crore
- Abhishek Sharma (C) – ₹1 crore
- Akash Deep (C) – ₹1 crore
- Varun Chakraborty (C) – ₹1 crore
- Harshit Rana (C) – ₹1 crore
This new contract list reflects the continued recognition of key players in Indian cricket while offering opportunities for younger talent to shine.
