Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday released the list of salaries of Indian cricketers representing the national side.
There are four brackets in which the players are divided.
The four grading schemes are:
• Grade A+, Grade A, Grade B, and Grade C.
• The salary for each of these grading systems are 7 crore, 5 crore, 3 crore, and 1 crore rupees, respectively.
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Payment structure:
Grade A+ : INR 7 Cr
Grade A : INR 5 Cr
Grade B : INR 3 Cr
Grade C : INR 1 Crhttps://t.co/WgtmO7pIOv pic.twitter.com/ycnPcXPYJu— BCCI (@BCCI) April 15, 2021
• Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Jasprit Bumrah are the only three players in the A+ category who receive a salary of 7 crore rupees.
Grade A+ : @imVkohli, @ImRo45, @Jaspritbumrah93
— BCCI (@BCCI) April 15, 2021
• Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, K L Rahul, Mohd. Shami, Ishant Sharma, Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya are in the A Category that offer 5 crore rupees salary. Hardik Pandya is the new entrant in this list.
Grade A: @ashwinravi99, @imjadeja, @cheteshwar1, @ajinkyarahane88, @SDhawan25, @klrahul11, @MdShami11, @ImIshant, @RishabhPant17, @hardikpandya7
— BCCI (@BCCI) April 15, 2021
• Kuldeep Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar who were in the A Category in 2019-20 have been downgraded to C and B category respectively.
• Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur and Mayank Agarwal are in the B Category which offers a salary of 3 crore rupees.
Grade B: @Wriddhipops, @y_umesh, @BhuviOfficial, @imShard, @mayankcricket
— BCCI (@BCCI) April 15, 2021
• Yuzvendra Chahal has been demoted from this list. He was part of the B category in 2019-20.
• Meanwhile, Shardul Thakur is the new entrant in this category.
• Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Shubhman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Axar Patel, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal and Md. Siraj are the players in the C category.
Grade C: @imkuldeep18, @navdeepsaini96, @deepak_chahar9, @RealShubmanGill, @Hanumavihari, @akshar2026, @ShreyasIyer15, @Sundarwashi5, @yuzi_chahal, @mdsirajofficial
— BCCI (@BCCI) April 15, 2021
• Mohammed Siraj, Axar Patel are the new entrant in this list.
• Whilst Manish Pandey has been dropped out of this list from the 2019-20 list.
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