BCCI announces central contract for 2024-25: No Change in A+ Category, Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan Return

  • Published - April 21, 2025 09:30:04
  • Updated - April 21, 2025 09:30:04
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BCCI central contract for 2024-25 are here: Check full list here

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the Annual Player Contracts for Team India (Senior Men) for the 2024-25 season (October 1st, 2024, to September 30th, 2025). Despite saying goodbye to the one format (T20I) of the game, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Ravindra Jadeja retain the A+ category, while Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer got the back central contracts. Check out the BCCI central contract for 2024-25.

BCCI central contract for 2024-25

Grade A+

Number Players
1 Rohit Sharma
2 Virat Kohli
3 Jasprit Bumrah
4 Ravindra Jadeja

Grade A

5 Mohammed Siraj
6 KL Rahul
7 Shubman Gill
8 Hardik Pandya
9 Mohammed Shami
10 Rishabh Pant

Grade B

11 Suryakumar Yadav
12 Kuldeep Yadav
13 Axar Patel
14 Yashasvi Jaiswal
15 Shreyas Iyer

Grade C

16 Rinku Singh
17 Tilak Verma
18 Ruturaj Gaikwad
19 Shivam Dube
20 Ravi Bishnoi
21 Washingtone Sundar
22 Mukesh Kumar
23 Sanju Samson
24 Arshdeep Singh
25 Prasidh Krishna
26 Rajat Patidar
27 Dhruv Jurel
28 Sarfaraz Khan
29 Nitish Kumar Reddy
30 Ishan Kishan
31 Abhishek Sharma
32 Akash Deep
33 Varun Chakravarthy
34 Harshit Rana

Despite leaving one format of the game, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Ravindra Jadeja retain the A+ category in the BCCI central contract for 2024-25 along with Jasprit Bumrah. So there is no change in the highest category. Players like Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan make their comeback to the central contracts list, with Shreyas placed in Grade B and Ishan in Grade C.

Rishabh Pant also gets a promotion to Grade A. This category features five other players, including Mohammed Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, and Mohammed Shami.