BCCI Contract List 2022: Full list of BCCI’s contracted players for 2022, Hardik Pandya, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane downgraded

BCCI Contract List 2022: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has finalized the Central Contract List 2022 for Indian cricketers. The BCCI Apex Council on March 2, 2022 had ratified the BCCI Contract List 2022. Some senior cricketers including Ajinkya Rahane, Hardik Pandya and Cheteshwar Pujara have lost their Grade A status.

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah are the only ones who have retained their Grade A plus plus status, while Grade A has only five players as opposed to the earlier ten. Another senior player Shikhar Dhawan has been downgraded to Grade C in the Central Contract List 2022.

The BCCI has four categories of central contracts and each has a different value of the annual remuneration amount. Last time BCCI had given central contracts to 28 cricketers but this year only 27 have been given contracts.

Following are the BCCI central contract payment structures-

Grade A+ – INR 7 Crore

grade A – INR 5 Crore

grade B – INR 3 Crore

Grade C – INR 1 Crore

View Full BCCI Central Contract List 2022

List of Grade A+ Players

Rohit Sharma

Virat Kohli

Jasprit Bumrah

Grade A players list

Earlier there were 10 players in Grade A and now it has been reduced to five.

1. R Ashwin

2. KL Rahul

3. Ravindra Jadeja

4. Rishabh Pant

5. Mohammed Shami

Grade B players list

I Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane And Ishant Sharma Downgraded to Grade B. Three cricketers were recently dropped from the shorter formats and were only included in the Indian Test squad.

I Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Mohammad Siraji And Shardul Thakur He has been upgraded to Grade B due to his impressive performance in the last season.

1. Ajinkya Rahane

2. Akshar Patel

3. Cheteshwar Pujara

4. Shreyas Iyer

5. Shardul Thakur

6. mohammed siraji

7. Ishant Sharma

Grade C players list

Senior all-rounder Hardik Pandya has been directly downgraded from Grade A to Grade C. Pandya has been in and out of the team in the last season due to injury. Another senior player who has been downgraded to Grade C central contract category Shikhar Dhawan, Which is now included in ODIs only.

1. Shikhar Dhawan

2. Hardik Pandya

3. Yuzvendra Chahali

4. Mayank Agarwal

5. Deepak Chahri

6. Shubman Gill

7. Hanuma Vihari

8. Wriddhiman Co:

9. Suryakumar Yadav

10. Bhuvneshwar Kumar

1 1 Umesh Yadav

12. Washington Beautiful

Kuldeep Yadav and Navdeep Saini are the two players whose names have been dropped from the BCCI Central Contract List 2022. Both the cricketers were earlier part of the list of contracted Indian players but have now been dropped.