On 3, march, the Board of control for cricket ( BCCI ) announced the latest central contract list for the Indian players for 2022. The central contract is a typical model for the salary of International Indian cricket players. Every year BCCI releases a renewed contract list of the Indian players, based on the performance of the particular player. BCCI has four categories, A+, A, B, and C each category has a different amount of salary and players fall into different categories based on performance. Check India Cricketers Latest Salary.
This year big names like Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, and Hardik Pandya are downgrade in the contract list. All three-star players were drop recently because of their bad form. Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane are demoted from grade A to grade B and Hardik Pandya demoted from grade A to grade C.
Spinster Kuldeep Yadav who recently made his comeback in the Indian team is not included in any category. Back in time, he is the number 1 spinner but now he can’t even take his place on the BCCI contract list.
India Cricketers Latest Salary
Latest salary
1) A+ Grade – 7 Crore INR
2) A Grade – 5 Crore INR
3) B Grade – 3 Crore INR
4) C Grade – 1 Crore INR
Grade and Contract
1)A+ Grade
Like, last year this year also three players Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Jaspreet Bumrah. Are put in this list, they will get 7 Crore INR.
- Virat Kohli
- Rohit Sharma
- Jaspreet Bumrah
2) A Grade
Last year 10 players were include in this list but these only 5 Players are put in the list.
Players in A grade are R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Rishabh pant, KL Rahul, and Mohammad Shami, they will get 5 Crore INR.
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Rishabh Pant
- R. Ashwin
- KL Rahul
- Mohammad Shami
3) B Grade
Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, and Ishant Sharma slip from A to B Grade this year, and Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel, Mohammad Siraj, and Shreyas Iyer are put from C to B. All seven will get 3 Crore INR.
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Cheteshwar Pujara
- Ishant Sharma
- Shardul Thakur
- Axar Patel
- Shreyas Iyer
- Mohammad Siraj
4) C Grade
This list has a total of 12 players in it. Two Star players Hardik Pandya and Shikhar Dhawan are slip from grade A to grade C due to their weak performance. Along with this several new players are include in the contract list. They will get 1 Crore INR.
- Hardik Pandya
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Shubhaman Gill
- Hanuman Vihari
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar
- Mayank Agarwal
- Deepak Chahar
- Wriddhiman Saha
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Washington Sundar
- Umesh Yadav
- Yuzvendra Chahal
Highest paid players
- Virat Kohli – 7 crore
- Rohit Sharma – 7 crore
- Jaspreet Bumrah – 7 crore