BCCI announced new contract list for Indian Cricket Team

On thursday night, BCCI announced the new annual contracts list. In this new contract list, A new category (Grade A+) is introduced for Men's team and (Grade C) is introduced for Women's team.

In this list, for Men's team 25 cricketers are in four grades of Grade A+, Grade A, Grade B and Grade C. For Women's team, 20 cricketers are in three grades of Grade A, Grade B and Grade C.

Men's cricket team- The A+ category players get a yearly retainer fee of Rs 7 crore, A category players get Rs 5 crore, B category players get Rs 3 crore and C category players get Rs 1 crore.

Grade A+ - Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah.

Grade A - R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, MS Dhoni, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant.

Grade B - KL Rahul, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya.

Grade C - Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, Ambati Rayudu, Manish Pandey, Hanuma Vihari, Khaleel Ahmed, Wriddhiman Saha.

Women's cricket team- The A category players get a yearly retainer fee of Rs 50 lakhs, B category players get Rs 30 lakhs and C category players get Rs 10 lakhs.

Grade A - Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Poonam Yadav.

Grade B - Ekta Bisht, Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues.

Grade C - Radha Yadav, D Hemalatha, Anuja Patil, Veda Krishnamurthy, Mansi Joshi, Punam Raut, Mona Meshram, Arundhati Reddy, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Taniya Bhatia, Pooja Vastrakar.